Affordable Housing Grant Agreement between St Johns County and Habitat for HumanityAffordable Housing Grant Agreement • August 24th, 2020 • Florida
Contract Type FiledAugust 24th, 2020 JurisdictionOn January 28, 2019, the County issued a Notice of Funding Availability, which invited eligible organizations to submit proposals for funding under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. Habitat for Humanity of St. Augustine/St. Johns County, Inc. (Habitat) submitted an application for grant funds in response to the Notice of Funding Availability. The application proposed an approach to increasing the supply of Affordable Housing within St. Johns County. On May 17, 2019, an independent committee evaluated Grantee’s application and scored it among the top three applications received. Staff of the Housing and Community Services Division worked with Habitat to modify their proposal so as to maximize the number of affordable housing units that the Grantee could produce, and recommended it for funding. Habitat proposes to purchase an undeveloped, 5.1 acre parcel of land on N. Volusia Street, for the purpose of building an affordable housing community with a minimum of 26 home