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Orange County Five-Year Consolidated Plan
PURPOSE: The purpose of this item is for the Board to consider approving the submission of the proposed Orange County Five-Year Consolidated Plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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DEPARTMENT: Manager's Office
CONTACT INFORMATION: Nate Broman-Fulks, 919-918-7314, nbroman-fulks@townofcarrboro.org
INFORMATION: A Five-Year Consolidated Plan for Housing and Community Development Programs in Orange County is required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in order for Orange County, through the Orange County Home Consortium, to receive HOME funds. The Consolidated Plan details the housing needs of low and moderate-income families and special population groups within Orange County. The Plan also outlines the goals and strategies for addressing those needs.
The Town of Carrboro is a member of the Orange County HOME Consortium, along with Orange County, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. The Consolidated Plan must be approved by the governing bodies of the HOME Program Consortium: the Chapel Hill Town Council, the Orange County and Hillsborough Commissioners, and Carrboro Board of Aldermen before it can be submitted to HUD.
As the lead entity of the HOME Consortium, Orange Count hired Urban Design Ventures to develop the Plan. Urban Design Ventures held multiple community meetings, distributed a survey, and held one-on-one meetings to receive input from affordable housing and community service providers, citizens, and government staff on how to prioritize the affordable housing and community development needs in the County. Comments from these sessions and county data were incorporated into the Consolidated Plan.
Orange County and Urban Design Ventures are, at the time of this writing, still working to finish the final draft of the Consolidated Plan. The latest available draft of the Consolidated Plan has been attached for the Boa...
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