Hawaii Public Housing Authority

State of Hawaii

Request for Information (RFI) RFI-HPB-2009-14

Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program

(HPRP)

Date Issued: March 27, 2009 Proposal Submittal Deadline: Friday, April 3, 2009

The State of Hawaii, Hawaii Public Housing Authority (HPHA), and the Continua of Care (CoC) for the counties of Hawaii, Kauai and Maui, are requesting applications from qualified Sub-grantees to provide homeless prevention services to rapidly re-house and stabilize individuals and families on the Counties of Hawaii, Kauai and Maui.

The Homelessness Prevention Fund created under Title XII of Division A, of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) has provided available funding of $2,123,551.00. Funds are to provide financial assistance and services to either prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless or help those who are experiencing homelessness to be quickly re-housed and stabilized. More specifically, the two target populations to be served are: 1) individuals and families who are currently in housing but are at imminent risk of becoming homeless and need temporary rent or utility assistance to prevent them from becoming homeless or assistance to move to another unit (prevention), and 2) individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness (residing in emergency or transitional shelter or on the street) and need temporary assistance in order to obtain housing and retain it (rapid re-housing). The focus is on housing for homeless and households at-risk of becoming homeless. Eligible activities under this funding include: 1) financial assistance; 2) housing relocation and stabilization services; 3) data collection and evaluation; 4) administrative costs related to delivery of services in items 1 through 3.

The purpose of this request for information is to include providers in a federal grant application pursuant to section 3-143-614, HAR. If the State is awarded the grant, no Request For Proposal (RFP) for this service will be issued and the providers selected and named in the grant application as result of this RFI will be awarded a contract for the service