Metro Community Development

Enhance Community housing initiatives through meetings with groups, assisting with funding projects, and development of strategic plans. Provide funding to subrecipient organizations who provide services and develop initiatives to improve quality of neighboroods and communities throughout flint and genesee county. Chronic homeless initiative and homeless prevention and rapid-rehousing are programs to help develop permanent supportive housing for individuals who are chronically homeless and to provide tenant based rental assistance.

Community development financial institutions (cdfi) funds and small business administration (sba) funds were used to obtain the technical assistance needed to run the program efficiently and effectively. The funds were also used to provide micro-loans, including rural and enterprise loans, for genesee, lapeer, saginaw, and shiawassee counties.

Homeless management information system (hmis) is a software system designed to record and store client-level information on the characteristics and service needs of homeless individuals and persons at risk of homelessness. The data collected in hmis allows a Community to assess the needs and dynamics among specific subpopulations of people experiencing homelessness, and to measure the performance of the Community's approaches to preventing and ending homelessness and its allocation of resources. Coordinated entry is a system that provides access to individuals and families seeking assistance through a coordinated referral and housing placement process that identifies and prioritizes a client's vulnerability and barriers to housing. Continuum of care (coc) planning is a process involving government agencies, service providers, advocates, and other stakeholders in evaluating the needs of homeless people in the Community, assessing the performance of existing activities, and prioritizing activities for the purpose of securing funding from the u.s. department of housing and urban development.

Provide assistance to low income families in obtaining home ownership.