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WESTCHESTER URBAN COUNTY CONSORTIUM

FY 2009-2013 CONSOLIDATED PLAN

“Sustaining Neighborhoods, Sustaining Communities”

March 2009

Westchester County - Department of PlanningGerard E. Mulligan, Commissioner

Norma V. Drummond, Deputy Commissioner

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TABLE OF CONTENTSExecutive Summary

Introduction

Chapter 1 Housing and Homeless Needs Assessment

Chapter 2 Housing Market Analysis

Chapter 3 Non-Housing Community Development Needs

Chapter 4 Strategic Plan

Chapter 5 Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Areas

Chapter 6 Fiscal Year 2009 Action Plan

Chapter 7 Citizen Participation Plan

Chapter 8 Summary of Citizen Comments

AppendicesWestchester County Planning Board MembersWestchester Urban County Consortium – Community Development Advisory Group MembersCHAS Tables Census 2000 Data Tables

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to establish housing and community development goals for the next five-year period (2009-2013) to continue to provide decent housing to local residents

to provide guidance on homelessness; and

to provide a suitable environment to expand economic opportunities

The Mission of the Consolidated Plan…

The Consolidated Plan is a comprehensive document promoting a holistic approach to housing and community development needs and fosters the coordination of all programs, funded by HUD. It provides guidance on the investment of Federal dollars.

…which will be implemented through the Westchester Urban County Consortium:

Executive Summary


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The Consolidated Plan specifically covers three (3) HUD grant programs and how the Consortium will use these funds to address the short and long term goals identified in the Strategic Plan.

Funding to Meet Short & Long Term Goals

2009 Grant (Est.)

Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) $5,430,084

HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME) including ADDI funds

$1,613,876

Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) $240,000

Total Estimated Dollars $7,283,960

x 5 years $36,419,800


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1. Housing and Homeless Needs Assessment

2. Housing Market Analysis

3. Non-Housing Community Development Needs

4. Strategic Plan

5. Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area Plans

6. Fiscal Year 2009 Action Plan

7. Citizen Participation Plan

8. Summary of Citizen Comments

Plan has eight Components Required by HUD


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The Consortium is comprised of 40 of Westchester’s 45 municipalities. Four of the non-participating municipalities qualify as separate grantees for federal funding:

Mount VernonNew RochelleWhite PlainsYonkers

The Town of Mount Pleasant has chosen not to join the Consortium.

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Key Findings –Housing and Homeless Needs Assistance

In the last 5 years, single-family housing prices have increased 31% in Westchester while median incomes have increased only 5.6%.

85% of Consortium households could not afford to purchase a single-family house in today’s market.

A person must work 163 hours a week earning the federal minimum wage to afford a 2-bedroom apartment in Westchester; or earn a minimum wage of $29.21/hour.

164,500 low and moderate income persons live in the Consortium.

72% of Consortium households own their own home, yet only 46% of Black households and 35% of Hispanic households own their own home.

27% of Consortium households are cost-burdened; 11% are severely cost-burdened.

While homelessness has declined, families and singles are still looking for assistance.

13% of population is over 65; 28% of these elderly residents have one or more disabilities.

38% of confirmed lead poisoned children live in low and moderate income areas.


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Key Findings –Housing and Homeless Needs Assistance

38% of confirmed lead poisoned children live in low and moderate income areas.

72% of the 188,000 housing units in the Consortium are ownership; 65% are single-family.

83% of these units were built before lead-based paint was banned; 30% of the units were built prior to 1940.

While the Hudson River Shore Region contains the most housing units; the North County Watershed Region contains the least multi-family housing units.

Most rental units are 1-2 bedrooms; most 3-bedroom units are found in ownership units.

Overcrowded housing units increased 40% between 1990 and 2000.

Only 5,700 housing units were added between 2000 and 2005, of which only 17% were for rental housing.

A number of special needs housing units exist in the Consortium to provide services to clients of drug/alcohol treatment, mental health, physically disabled, HIV/AIDS families and homeless singles and families.


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Key Findings –Non-Housing Community Development Needs

Incorporated in 1683, Westchester County has a significant amount of aging infrastructure.

Former industrial uses along the waterfront have created brown fields and underutilized waterfronts.

NYC Watershed regulations severely restrict future development in certain communities due in large part to the absence of water and sewer infrastructure.

An aging population is creating a larger audience of users for community/senior centers.

Expensive housing requires more two income households – increasing the need for daycare and after school facilities and programs.

Childhood obesity rates have tripled in youth in the past 20 years, causing increased medical problems.

Transportation for the elderly and disabled was the highest community service need raised by consumers.


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Key Findings – Strategic PlanPriorities in funding are to establish for each grant program:

CDBG Priorities

1. Affordable Housing2. Sustainable Investment 3. Opportunities For Youth

HOME Priorities

1. Construction of New Permanent Housing Units2. Multi-family Rehabilitation3. Downpayment Assistance

ESG Priorities

1. Homeless Prevention Subsidies2. Housing Counseling 3. Homeless Shelter Rehabilitation/Operating Expenses


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Key Findings - Neighborhood Strategy AreasHUD’s 2000 Notice outlined the criteria for establishing Neighborhood Revitalization Areas.

17 Municipalities with 20 eligible areas – where greater than 51% of the neighborhood population meets the threshold of being at/below 80% of median income:

City of Peekskill Town of Bedford Town of CortlandtTown of Eastchester Town of Greenburgh Town of HarrisonTown of North Salem Town of Yorktown Village of BuchananVillage of Mamaroneck Village of Mount Kisco Village of OssiningVillage of Pleasantville Village of Port Chester Village of Sleepy HollowVillage of Tarrytown Village of Tuckahoe

Each area must identify neighborhood stakeholders and create their own plans.

The Villages of Ossining and Port Chester and the City of Peekskill have prepared and submitted NRSA plans.


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Key Findings – 2009 Action Plan

CDBG: Priorities: Affordable Housing, Sustainable Investment & Opportunities for Youth

42 CDBG Projects (first year of current 3 year -- FY 2009 – 2011, funding cycle)

• 12 Low/Mod Area Projects• 22 Low/Mod Clientele Projects• 08 Low/Mod Housing Projects

• 62.7% of funds allocated to the 10 most distressed communities

HOME: Priorities – Construction of New Units, Rehabilitation & Downpayment Assistance

HOME Projects (first come first served)

ESG: Priorities – Assistance to the Homeless Prevention & Homelessness Prevention

• 5 Homeless Prevention services for families/individuals• 3 Essential services for families/individuals


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Key Findings – 2009 Action Plan

ESG Priorities: Assistance to the Homeless Population & Homelessness Prevention

Funding for ESG funds are allocated through a Request For Proposalprocess for assistance to the homeless population and those who are at risk of becoming homelessness.


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Key Findings – Citizen Participation PlanCommunity Development Advisory Group (CDAG)

Made up of citizen representatives appointed by each member community and two consortium-wide non-profit agency representativesQuarterly meetings to make recommendations to County Executive

Establishes Comment Periods for each Fiscal Year covered by this Consolidated Plan with accessible public hearings announced with appropriate notice

Substantial Change defined as greater than 10% with changes within a community’s allocations excluded

Access to records – direct written requests to:

Westchester County - Department of PlanningNorma Drummond, Deputy Commissioner148 Martine Avenue, Room 414White Plains, New York 10601


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Key Findings – Citizen Comments65 written and e-mail comments were received by the Westchester County Department of Planning and are

attached in the Appendices section of this document:

February 1, 2009 Don Bosco Community Center, Inc.

January 27, 2009 Peter F. Gaito & Associates,

February 11, 2009 Open Door Family Medical Centers

January 27, 2009 Sleepy Hollow Police Department

February 6, 2009 Community Housing Management

February 5, 2009 John Mitamura, MD

January 22, 2009 Phelps Memorial Hospital Center

January 28, 2009 SH Housing Associates, LLC

January 15, 2009 All Souls Parish/Presbyterian Church

January 12, 2009 Dorothy Scarfone

January 17, 2009 Emily E. Saunders

January 12, 2009 Nicholas C. Mecca

January 17, 2009 Mike DeBartolo

January 29, 2009 Saint Mary Church

January 28, 2009 Claudio PhillipsJanuary 20, 2009 Tully Law Office, P.C.

January 12, 2009 Salesians of Don Bosco

January 28, 2009 Westchester Hispanic CoalitionNo date Eddy GarciaNo date Jeydi LeivaNo date Luis RiveraNo date Julia LeonardoNo date Luis CamachoNo date Nestor GonzalezNo date Israelia CamposNo date Idelsi ConcepcionNo date Hector GenaoNo date Daysi ReynosoNo date Mercedes PadillaNo date Nora SerranoNo date Francisco Tejada


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Key Findings – Citizen Comments

No date Maria EspinalNo date Horacio ReyesNo date Felix SasaguayNo date Esther BrittoNo date Zoila AguilarNo date Patricio LeivaNo date Luis CabrejaNo date Leticia HurtadoNo date Freddy JavierNo date Brunilda RodriguezNo date Amantina JavierNo date Luis FernandezNo date Maria AraujoNo date Cesar HidalgoNo date Carlos GuzmanNo date Karina RamosNo date Marisol Reinoso

No date Lilis LopezNo date Dionel EspinozaNo date Miguel MorochoNo date Carlos RosarioNo date Mildred RodriguezNo date Ana MartinezNo date Alba PichardoNo date Isabel PintoNo date Freddy JavierNo date Maria GonzalezNo date Gumercinda LeonardoNo date Leonirda LedesmaNo date Maria ValdesNo date Rosa BescosmeNo date Gustavo OlmosNo date Alvin VelozNo date Olga Almonte

Introduction FY 2009-2013 Westchester Urban County Consortium Consolidated Plan

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INTRODUCTION


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In Fiscal Year 2009…

…the Westchester Urban County Consortium will mark its 34th year of participating in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) and 23rd year of Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG), 18th of HOME and through the Office of New York’s Department of Mental Health & Hygiene receives funding under the Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS Program (HOPWA).

The Consortium has a long history of successfully implementing community development and affordable housing programs.

In 1995, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) replaced the annual applications for three of the above programs with one Consolidated Plan. This Consolidated Plan covers a five-year period, with annual updates made to reflect specific projects to be completed with funding for each of the five fiscal years covered under the CDBG, HOME and ESG Programs.

This Consolidated Plan will cover FY 2009 – 2013.

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to establish housing and community development goals for the next five-year period to continue to provide affordable, decent and safe housing to Consortium residents

to provide guidance on homelessness; and

to provide a suitable environment to expand economic opportunities

The Mission of the Consolidated Plan…

Introduction

The Consolidated Plan is a comprehensive document promoting a holistic approach to housing and community development needs and fosters the coordination of all programs, funded by HUD. It provides guidance on the investment of Federal dollars as well as other federal, State and local funding dollars are leveraged with the Consortium’s funded federal dollars.

…which will be implemented through the Westchester Urban County Consortium:


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The Consortium is comprised of 40 of Westchester’s 45 municipalities. Four of the non-participating municipalities qualify as separate grantees for federal funding:

Mount VernonNew RochelleWhite PlainsYonkers

The Town of Mount Pleasant has chosen not to join the Consortium.

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The Plan incorporates and builds on plans and guidance from the 40 communities that make up the Westchester Urban County Consortium, and a variety of other public input, including:

Plan Incorporates Extensive Citizen Participation

11 County Departments

Community Mental Health

Disabled

Health

Parks

Public Works

Senior Programs and Services

Social Services

Transportation

Veterans Affairs

Youth Bureau

Human Rights Commission

Other comments received from:

3 Public Meetings (Port Chester, Ossining and Pelham)

Community Development Advisory Group

Section 8 Administrators

Urban County Council

Non-Profit Housing Coalition


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The Consolidated Plan specifically covers three (3) HUD grant programs and how the Consortium will use these funds to address the short and long term goals identified in the Strategic Plan. At the time of publication, Congress had not yet adopted a FY 2009 budget, so below are estimated grant amounts.

Funding to Meet Short & Long Term Goals

2009 Grant (Est.)

Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) $5,430,084HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME) including ADDI funds

$1,613,876

Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) $240,000Total Estimated Dollars $7,283,960

x 5 years $36,419,800


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Other Grant Programs Discussed

In addition to the three main programs covered by this Plan, there will also be information about other HUD programs, including:

Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA)

Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher

Lead Safe Westchester (Lead Hazard and Demo programs)

Shelter Plus Care

Supportive Housing Programs


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PatternsSub regions

Northern Watershed

Hudson River Shore

Central County

Long Island Sound

Bronx River Valley

In accordance with the Westchester County Planning’s “Patterns for Westchester” 1997 master plan, five sub region areas are identified. These sub regions contain municipalities that share general socioeconomic patterns.


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This Consolidated Plan incorporates 2000 Census Data, including many housing and demographic characteristics as well as low and moderate income areas.

When available, more updated services of data were used.

Census 2000

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Income Criteria

Introduction

Westchester County was designated one of 10 Metropolitan Statistical Areas granted an exception to HUD’s standard use of the national 80% of median income for determining the low and moderate income population.

Being considered a high-cost area, Westchester’s true 80% of the county median income, as opposed to the much lower national median, more accurately qualifies Westchester residents in need of housing and community development assistance.

October 3, 2007 – A public hearing was held to adopt uncapped median income for area benefit*

*CDBG projects can qualify under the HUD guidelines by one of the following three criteria:

1) Area benefit – benefits areas where the HUD/Census data shows more than 41.2% of the population as low and moderate income.

2) Direct benefit – the project directly benefit persons who are below the low and moderate income criteria

3) Slum and blight removal – a municipality must officially designate an area as blighted.

The County will continue to use the uncapped income data to determine the eligibility of each proposed project under the CDBG, HOME, ADDI and ESG programs.


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Non-consortium areasLow and moderate income areas

Source: US HUD 2008 and US Census Bureau, 2000.

Prepared by the Westchester County Department of Planning.

In the Westchester Consortium, a low and moderate income area is defined as a census block group where greater than 41.2% of the population has an income at or below 80% of the county median income.

As of 2008, the median income for Westchester County for a family of four was $101,600.

These new low and moderate income areas from the Census 2000 and 2005 data will be in effect term of this consolidated plan.

Low and Moderate Income Target Areas


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Consortium Population - 2005

Central County has the largest population of the five (5)sub-regions at 156,987 persons (26% of the Consortium)followed by the Hudson River Shore.

608,000 persons66% of Westchester’s total population

20% population increase from 2000

200,000 households10% household increase from 2000

220,000 housing units2% housing growth from 2000

Consortium Population, 2005 (est.)

Central County, 156,987, 25%

Northern Watershed,

125,726, 21%

Long Island Sound, 126,670,

21%

Hudson River Shore, 125,964,

21%

Bronx River Valley, 72,509,

12%

Source: US ACS 2005 and City Data.com 2005


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Population by Age

74,889

55,619

30,843

107,066

171,041

59,200

8,924

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120,000

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Change in Population by Age Cohort, 1990 to 2000Westchester Urban County Consortium

2000 population

132,000 youth under 18 (22% ofConsortium), a 24% growth between1990 and 2005

18,500 Hispanic (13% of youth)9,800 Black (7% of youth)

58,000 households with children under18 (28% of Consortium households).

68,000 elderly 65 years and over (10%of Consortium population)

17,000 or 25% live alone75% of the elderly who live alone are female

Change in Population by Age Cohort 2000-2005, Westchester urban County Consortium

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Source: US ACS 2005 and City Data. com 2005


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Population Density 2000

Non-consortium municipalities

0 - 5,0005,001 - 10,00010,001 - 20,00020,001 - 55,000

Persons per square mile, 2000

The Bronx River Valley and theLong Island Sound are the mostdensely populated sub regions.

Outside of these two sub regions,the Village of Ossining and the Cityof Peekskill also have highpopulation densities.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2000

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