HUD HOPWA Data List for New Consolidated APR/CAPER
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Access to Care Reporting / Prior Living Reporting 7
Capital Development Reporting 8
Contact Information Individual 9
Contact Information Business 9
Grantee Specific Information 12
The purpose of this information collection is to meet the Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) annual reporting requirements. Reporting is required for all HOPWA grantees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 12911; 24 CFR §§ 574.520(a) and (b); and 24 CFR § 91.520(f). The information collected on this form is required to obtain a benefit. It will not be confidential. The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 40 hours, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the information collection. This includes the time for collecting, reviewing, and reporting the data. HUD may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless that collection displays a currently valid OMB control number. OMB Approval No. 2506-0133 (Expiration Date: 12/31/2027).
Term |
Definition |
Viral Suppression |
When the load or volume of HIV virus present in a person's blood is measured at less than 200 copies per milliliter of blood. |
Adjustment for Duplication |
Removal of duplicate entries when a household/unit received more than one type of HOPWA assistance, which enables the calculation of unduplicated output totals. For example, if a household received both HOPWA TBRA and HOPWA PHP from the same project sponsor, adjusting for duplication would ensure that household was only counted once when calculating the HOPWA housing subsidy assistance household total. |
Administrative Agent |
An entity the grantee has selected to carry out administrative activities on behalf of the grantee. When a grantee utilizes another organization to carry out some or all of the grantee’s administrative functions, the administrative activities, costs, and terms of payment should be clearly delineated in a contract or other written agreement between the parties. All costs associated with administering the grant, whether incurred by the grantee or the other organization, are subject to the 3% administrative cost limit. For the purposes of HOPWA annual performance reporting, the administrative agent would not complete a separate “Provider Workbook.” |
Administrative Costs |
Costs for general management, oversight, coordination, evaluation, and reporting (24 CFR § 574.3). By statute, grantee administrative costs are limited to 3% of the total grant award, to be expended over the life of the grant. Project sponsor administrative costs are limited to 7% of the portion of the grant amount they receive (42 U.S.C. § 12911). |
Anti-Retroviral Therapy |
A use of a combination of medications to treat HIV. |
Area Median Income (AMI) |
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sets income limits that determine eligibility for assisted housing programs including the HOPWA program. HUD develops income limits based on Median Family Income estimates and Fair Market Rent area definitions for each metropolitan area, parts of some metropolitan areas, and each non-metropolitan county. AMI values vary by location and are published at https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il.html |
Beneficiary(ies) |
All members of a household (with or without HIV) who benefitted from HOPWA assistance during the operating year, not including the HOPWA-eligible individual (see definition). |
Chronically Homeless Person |
A person defined as chronically homeless under 24 CFR 578.3. ((1) A homeless individual with a disability as defined in section 401(9) of the McKinney-Vento Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360(9)) who: a) lives in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter, and b) has been homeless and living as described for at least 12 months or on at least 4 separate occasions in the last 3 years, as long as the combined occasions equal at least 12 months and each break in homelessness separating the occasions included at least 7 consecutive night of not living as described; (2) An individual who has been residing in an institutional care facility, including jail, substance abuse or mental health treatment facility, hospital, or other similar facility, for fewer than 90 days and met all of the criteria of this definition before entering that facility; or (3) A family with an adult head of household (or, if there is no adult in the family, a minor head of household) who meets all of the criteria of this definition, including a family whose composition has fluctuated while the head of household has been homeless).) |
Contractor |
A contractor is an entity that receives a legal instrument (contract) by which a grantee or project sponsor purchases property or services needed to carry out the project or program under a Federal award. The purpose of the contract is to obtain goods and services for the grantee/project sponsor's own use and creates a procurement relationship with the contractor. Characteristics indicative of a procurement relationship between the grantee and a contractor are when the contractor: provides the goods and services within normal business operations; provides similar goods or services to many different purchasers; normally operates in a competitive environment; provides goods or services that are ancillary to the operation of the HOPWA program; and is not subject to compliance requirements of the HOPWA program as a result of the agreement, though similar requirements may apply for other reasons (2 CFR 200.331(b)). For purposes of HOPWA annual performance reporting, contractors do not submit a separate “Provider Workbook.” |
Facility-Based Housing Assistance |
Leasing, operating, and hotel/motel expenditures to support units or facilities including community residences, SRO dwellings, short-term facilities, project-based rental units, master leased units, and other housing facilities approved by HUD. |
Faith-Based Organization |
Religious organizations of three types: (1) congregations; (2) national networks, which include national denominations, their social service arms (for example, Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services), and networks of related organizations (such as YMCA and YWCA); and (3) freestanding religious organizations, which are incorporated separately from congregations and national networks. |
Grassroots Organization |
An organization that is headquartered in the local community where it provides services, has a social services budget of $300,000 or less annually, and has six or fewer full-time equivalent employees. Local affiliates of national organizations are not considered “grassroots.” |
HOPWA-Eligible Individual |
The one low-income person with HIV/AIDS who qualifies a household for HOPWA assistance. This person may be considered “Head of Household.” A child may also qualify the household for HOPWA assistance. When the annual performance report asks for information on eligible individuals, report on this individual person only. Where there is more than one person with HIV/AIDS in the household, the additional PWH/A(s), would be considered a beneficiary(s). |
Housing Information Services |
Costs to provide counseling, information, or referral services to assist an eligible person to locate, acquire, finance, and maintain housing (24 CFR § 574.300(b)(1)). Some eligible costs under Housing Information Services include staff time to assist eligible clients in searching for or locating appropriate housing whether HOPWA-subsidized or not; staff time to provide fair housing guidance for eligible households who may encounter discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex,, age, national origin, familial status, or disability; staff time to provide housing counseling to acquire and finance housing; and development and use of Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) elements to coordinate housing assistance for eligible households. HMIS costs billed to housing information services must be pro-rated and not include HMIS reporting. Use of HMIS for reporting purposes is considered an administrative activity and must be billed to administrative costs. |
HOPWA Housing Subsidy Assistance Total |
The unduplicated number of households receiving housing subsidies (TBRA, STRMU, Permanent Housing Placement services and Master Leasing) and/or residing in units of facilities dedicated to persons living with HIV/AIDS and their families and supported with HOPWA funds during the program year for formula grantees and the operating year for competitive grantees. |
Household |
A single individual or a family, as defined in 24 CFR 574.3. The term is used for collecting data on changes in income, changes in access to services, receipt of housing information services, and outcomes on achieving housing stability. Live-In Aides (see definition for Live-In Aide) and non-household members (e.g., a shared housing arrangement with a roommate) who resided in the unit are not reported in the annual performance report. |
Improved HIV Viral Load |
A reduction in the load or volume of HIV present in the HOPWA-eligible individual's blood at the end of the operating year compared to the beginning of the operating year. Most people with HIV/AIDS (PWH) who are engaged in medical care have routine laboratory tests. The HOPWA-eligible individual's two most recent laboratory reports can be used to determine viral load improvement, even if the first laboratory test was performed in a prior operating year. |
In-kind Leveraged Resources |
These are additional types of support provided to assist HOPWA-eligible individuals such as volunteer services, materials, use of equipment, and building space. The actual value of the support can be the contribution of professional services, based on customary rates for this specialized support, or actual costs contributed from other leveraged resources. In determining a rate for the contribution of volunteer time and services, use the criteria described in 2 CFR part 200. The value of any donated material, equipment, building, or lease should be based on the fair market value at time of donation. Related documentation can be from recent bills of sale, advertised prices, appraisals, or other information for comparable property similarly situated. |
Leasing Costs |
Costs used to lease all or a portion of a building as needed to provide housing to eligible households. For eligible individuals or families unable to hold leases in their names, funding may be used to “master lease” units, where the eligible households choose the units, the grantee or project sponsor leases the units and pays the full rent to the landlord, and the eligible households pay the grantee or project sponsor the amount required by 24 CFR 574.310(d). This type of master leasing can be administered as “turn-key” housing assistance, to be replaced with Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) if the landlord agrees to transfer the lease to the eligible person. Funding may also be used to master lease units to be operated as transitional housing for eligible households. For example, post-incarceration programs often lease a unit to temporarily house an eligible household returning to the community until other more permanent housing arrangements can be made. The lease is always in the organization's name. The furniture, housing equipment, and supplies, eligible under the operating budget line item, belong to the organization and remain in the unit for the next household’s use. Eligible leasing costs include the cost to lease a housing facility or scattered-site units, staff time to negotiate lease terms with lessor or landlord, and annual housing inspections to ensure HOPWA habitability standards are met for scattered-site units assisted with Leasing. |
Leveraged Funds |
The amount of funds expended during the operating year from non-HOPWA federal, state, local, and private sources. Leveraged funds are used to further support HOPWA clients receiving assistance during the operating year for formula grants, or under the applicable competitive grant. |
Live-In Aide |
A person who resides with the HOPWA-Eligible Individual and who meets the following criteria: (1) is essential to the care and well-being of the person; (2) is not obligated for the support of the person; and (3) would not be living in the unit except to provide the necessary supportive services. See 24 CFR 5.403 and the HOPWA Grantee Oversight Resource Guide for additional reference. |
Master Leasing |
Applies to the leasing of units of housing (scattered-sites or entire buildings) from a landlord by a nonprofit or public agency that subleases the units to HOPWA-eligible tenants. By assuming the tenancy burden, the agency facilitates housing of clients who may not be able to maintain a lease on their own due to poor credit, evictions, or lack of sufficient income. |
Minimum Use Periods |
Grantees that used HOPWA funding for new construction, acquisition, conversion, lease, or substantial rehabilitation of a building or structure are required to operate the building or structure for HOPWA-eligible individuals for a 10-year period. In the case of non-substantial rehabilitation or repair of a building or structure, the minimum use period is not less than 3 years. If no further HOPWA funds are used to support the facility, in place of completing the "CAP DEV" tab in the Performance Report Worksheet, the grantee must complete an “Annual Report of Continued Project Operation” throughout the required use periods. This report is found on the "STEWARD" tab of the Grantee Workbook. |
Medically Assisted Living Facilities |
HOPWA facility-based housing that assists residents with most or all activities of daily living, such as meals, bathing, dressing, and toileting. Regular medical care, supervision, and rehabilitation are also often available. |
Operating Costs |
Costs of operating a housing facility owned or leased by the grantee or project sponsor, to the extent the costs are necessary to house eligible households. Eligible operating costs include utilities, property insurance, minor repairs, and upkeep of the facility, maintenance both inside and outside the facility, procurement and contracting of services for facility operation or maintenance, furniture and appliances that will remain with the facility, food purchases and kitchen operation for HOPWA household at the facility, and staff time for directing any of the eligible operating costs mentioned above at the facility for eligible households (24 CFR §574.300(b)(8)). |
Operating Year – Competitive grantees |
HOPWA competitive grants are awarded for a 3-year period of performance with annual performance reports submitted for each of the 3 operating years. The information contained in this performance report should reflect the grantee’s operating year with the beginning date determined at the time the grant agreement is signed. Project sponsor accomplishment information must coincide with the operating year this Performance Report covers. Any change to the period of performance requires the approval of HUD by amendment, such as an extension for one additional operating year. A PSH renewal/replacement grant start date would be coordinated with the close out of the existing grant. Grantees with an approved extension period of less than 6 months must submit the Performance Report for the third year of the grant term at the end of the approved extension period and incorporate data from the additional months. Grantees with an approved extension period of 6 months or more must turn in a Performance Report at the end of the operating year and submit a separate extension Performance Report at the end of the extension period. |
Operating Year – Formula grantees |
HOPWA Formula Grantees follow the Grantee Program Year as established by the Consolidated Planning Processes. All CPD Programs (HOME/ESG/CDBG/HOPWA) use the same 12-month period as their Operating Year for performance reporting. The information contained in each annual performance report must represent a one-year time period of HOPWA program operation that coincides with the grantee’s program year.
HOPWA Formula Grantees are annually awarded grants with a 3-year period of performance, as established by the Grantee signature date on the Grant Agreement. Since Grant period of performances vary from Fiscal Year to Fiscal Year, and do not necessarily coincide with a Grantee’s Operating Year, funds from more than one HOPWA formula grant awarded to the same grantee may be used during an operating year and the annual performance report must capture all formula grant funding used during the operating year. Project sponsor accomplishment information must also align with the operating year the annual performance report covers. |
Outcome |
The degree to which the HOPWA assisted household has been enabled to establish or maintain a stable living environment in housing that is safe, decent, and sanitary (per the regulations at 24 CFR 574.310(b)) and to reduce the risks of homelessness and improve access to HIV treatment and other health care and support. |
Output |
The number of units of housing or households that receive HOPWA assistance during the operating year. |
Permanent Housing Placement (PHP) |
Eligible costs under PHP include security deposits not to exceed two months of rent, rental application fees, credit checks, one-time utility hook-up fees paid directly to the utility company, utility arrears only if the cost is creating a barrier to establishing permanent housing in a new unit, rent arrears only if past due rent debt at a prior unit is a barrier to accessing a new unit, initial housing inspections, reasonable travel costs to units for initial housing inspections, staff time to review and identify causes for eviction and responsibilities of the tenant within the least, staff time for assisting clients with executing the lease, and staff time for resolving landlord issues directly related to the PHP assistance being provided. PHP can be used in conjunction with TBRA where PHP pays the security deposit and TBRA covers ongoing monthly rent payments starting with the first month. PHP must only be used to assist the client in entering permanent housing. PHP must never be used for monthly rent or on-going utility costs where a client is already in permanent housing. Although PHP is included as a supportive service under 24 CFR 574.300(b)(7), HUD has established a dedicated BLI for PHP to distinguish it from other supportive services. |
Program Income |
As defined in 2 CFR 200.1, program income is income earned by the grantee or project sponsor that is directly generated by a supported activity or earned as a result of the grant during the period of performance (except as provided by 2 CFR 200.307). See grant administration requirements on program income at 2 CFR 200.307 and the Federal award. |
Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) |
A rental subsidy program that is tied to specific facilities or units owned or controlled by a project sponsor. Assistance is tied directly to the properties and is not portable or transferable. |
Project Sponsor Organizations |
Per HOPWA regulations at 24 CFR 574.3, any nonprofit organization or governmental housing agency that receives funds under a contract with the grantee to provide eligible housing and other support services or administrative services as defined in 24 CFR 574.300. Project Sponsor organizations are required to provide performance data on households served and funds expended. |
Resource Identification |
Resource identification funds may be used to establish, coordinate, and develop permanent housing assistance resources for eligible persons (including conducting preliminary research and making expenditures necessary to determine the feasibility of specific housing-related initiatives) (24 CFR § 574.300(b)(2)). Activities can include increasing coordination with local initiatives, systems, or strategies (such as the local Continuum of Care or Ryan White Planning Council) to house HOPWA-eligible individuals, development of new housing resources, and conducting community needs assessments to inform system design. |
Rural |
For purposes of HOPWA reporting, a rural county is a county in which: (1) Has no part of it within an area designated as a standard metropolitan statistical area by the Office of Management and Budget; or (2) Is within an area designated as a metropolitan statistical area or considered as part of a metropolitan statistical area and at least 75% of its population is local on U.S. Census blocks classified as non-urban; or (3) is located in a state that has a population density of less than 30 persons per square mile (as reported in the most recent decennial census), and of which at least 1.25% of the total acreage of such State is under Federal jurisdiction. |
Short-Term Rent, Mortgage, and Utility (STRMU) Assistance |
Short-term rent, mortgage, and utility payments to prevent the homelessness of the tenant or mortgagor of a dwelling (24 CFR 574.300(b)(6)). Eligible STRMU costs include up to 21 weeks of the HOPWA-eligible individual’s rent, mortgage, and/or utility costs, and the costs of staff time to review and determine household’s need for STRMU assistance and make the STRMU payments. For the purposes of STRMU assistance, to the extent that taxes, insurance, condominium fees, or other building operation costs are included in the monthly mortgage payment either by federal regulation or the terms of the mortgage, these expenses are eligible to be included in the STRMU mortgage assistance payments. STRMU mortgage assistance for taxes, insurance, or condo fees that are not included on the monthly mortgage statement are not eligible. |
Stewardship Units |
Units developed with HOPWA, where HOPWA funds were used for acquisition, new construction, and/or rehabilitation that no longer receive operating subsidies from HOPWA. Report information for the units is subject to the 3-year use agreement if rehabilitation is non-substantial and to the 10-year use agreement if rehabilitation is substantial. |
Sub-Recipient |
For the purposes of the HOPWA program, a sub-recipient is an organization that receives funds under a contract with the project sponsor to carry out eligible HOPWA activities. For the purposes of HOPWA annual performance reporting, a sub-recipient organization does not need to submit a separate “Provider Workbook.” The sub-recipient’s HOPWA activities should be included in the “Provider Workbook” of the project sponsor with whom they have a contract. |
Supportive Services |
Costs include providing housing stability services, assistance in gaining access to mainstream resources, public benefits, healthcare and support positive health outcomes. However, health services may only be provided to individuals with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or related diseases and not to family members of these individuals. Eligible supportive services costs include staff time to develop, update and review individualized housing and service plans for clients; staff time to connect households to appropriate services and treatment in accordance with their housing and service plans, management-level consultation (case staffing); health and mental health assessment services; direct outpatient treatment by licensed professionals of mental health services; substance use disorder services provided by licensed or certified professionals; individual, family, or group therapy to address co-occurring disorders; nutritional services including food banks, nutritional supplements, and counseling by certified nutrition specialists; life skills trainings such as budgeting resources, resolving conflict, using public transportation, unit maintenance; credit counseling; education services including instruction or training in consumer education, health education, substance use prevention, literacy, English as a Second Language, and General Educational Development (GED); job training or job coaching including resume development; client transportation to and from medical care, employment, child care, or other eligible essential services facilities; and HOPWA provider transportation to meet with clients for supportive service needs (24 CFR §574.300(b)(7)). |
Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) |
TBRA is a rental subsidy program that grantees can provide to help low-income households access affordable housing. HOPWA does not place restrictions on the length of time eligible persons may receive TBRA. Grantees should provide the opportunity for eligible households to transition in place to self-sufficiency or another subsidy. Eligible TBRA costs include rental payments, staff time to verify household income for TBRA assistance, calculation of resident rent payment, monthly rental payments, processing a TBRA rental payment on behalf of the HOPWA-eligible individual, annual housing inspections to ensure HOPWA habitability standards are met for units being assisted with TBRA, reasonable travel costs to units for housing inspections, review of a client’s selected unit for rent reasonableness and rent standard, annual recertification for households receiving ongoing TBRA, and staff time for resolving landlord issues directly related to providing the TBRA assistance. |
VAWA Internal Emergency Transfers |
Per 24 CFR 5.2005e, an internal emergency transfer under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) protections refers to an emergency relocation of a tenant to another unit where the tenant would not be categorized as a new applicant; that is, the tenant may reside in the new unit without having to undergo an application process. |
VAWA External Emergency Transfers |
Per 24 CFR 5.2005e, an external emergency transfer under the VAWA protections refers to an emergency relocation of a tenant to another unit where the tenant would be categorized as a new applicant; that is, the tenant must undergo an application process in order to reside in the new unit. |
Veteran |
A veteran is someone who has served on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States. This does not include inactive military reserves or the National Guard unless the person was called up to active duty. |
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