Placement: Proclamations and Special presentations
Action Requested: Discussion
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Recognition of the City's Neighborhood Services Housing Team for receiving the State's Highest Honor: the 2022 State Housing Initiatives Partnership "SHIP" Award
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Submitted By: Alessandra "Alex" Tasca, Deputy Director, Neighborhood Services
Strategic Plan Link: The City's Mission to be responsive to our community.
Executive Summary (General Business): On August 31, 2022, at the Florida Housing Coalition's 35th Statewide Annual Conference "Home Matters", in celebration of the Sadowski Act's 30th Anniversary, the City of Port St. Lucie's SHIP Rehabilitation Program was presented with the 2022 Award of Excellence.
Presentation Information: Alex Tasca will provide a brief introduction to the award and the housing team staff and will ask for a photo with City Council in lieu of presentation, 5 minutes.
Staff Recommendation: N/A
Background: The State's Florida Housing Coalition has honored the Neighborhood Services Housing Team with an award for its State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) Homeowner Repair & Rehabilitation program. The team thanks Florida Housing Coalition for being so instrumental in supporting the City for nearly 30 years with this grant program. The Sadowski Housing Trust funds change lives.
The City has been a recipient and works to secure and distribute housing funds from the State to its residents since 1993, as soon as the William E. Sadowski Affordable Housing Act was passed. Building from one year to the next, thanks to the consistent and steady management of this well-established program, the City will continue to help address housing issues in our community, with these funds. Most recently the City's program has focused on low-income, homeowner repair and rehabilitation assisting households to execute much need life safety repairs on their homes, which they might not have otherwise been able to afford. This program is key to helping ...
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