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All Special Needs units will be direct referrals provided by the Coordinated Entry System that targets adults served through the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH). Any individual who is interested in being housed in one of the units, is assessed for MHSA eligibility. LACDMH shall review the applicant’s eligibility based on serious mental illness as defined in Welfare and Institutional Code Section 56600 3 (b)(1) (2) Homeless as defined in the MHSA Housing Program Application. LACDMH assesses and certifies eligibility factors such as: 1) Impairment in daily living skills due to untreated or under-treated mental illness; 2) Prior mental health services have proven insufficient to meet the needs of the individual; or the individual has declined traditional outpatient mental health services; 3) the individual has serious function impairments; 4) the individual has a high use of the emergency room; emergency psychiatric unit and/or inpatient care within the past year.

Rental Subsidies will be provided by HACLA or Brilliant Corners, our contracted subsidy providers. To qualify for the subsidy assistance, individual’s annual income cannot exceed 30% of the Area Medium Income (AMI) as defined by HUD. The People Concern will be the lead service provider and will coordinate and process the referrals and verify program eligibility. Applications will also be taken over the phone as a reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities. Applications will be date stamped and logged-in in the order received by The People Concern. The People Concern will process applications for homelessness qualifications in the same order and send back to JSCo for further eligibility. JSCo will process them on a first received first served basis. Future vacancies or remaining units will be filled with direct referrals from The People Concern from DHS or DMH, depending on subsidy type and unit designation. Once JSCo determines that an applicant is eligible in accordance to all tax credit regulations and this Resident Selection Criteria, The People Concern will send qualified special needs applicants back to the subsidy provider for approval. The People Concern will act as the intermediary between HACLA, Brilliant Corners, and the applicants and assist the applicant in gathering required documents for subsidy eligibility. HACLA is the administrator of the Project Based Vouchers (PBV). PBV is a rental subsidy program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Brilliant Corners is the administrator for the Flexible Housing Subsidy Program (FHSP), a rental subsidy provided by The Department of Health Services (DHS) The Management Agent will not discriminate against any individual or family because of race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin or ancestry, religion, sex, sexual preference, gender identity, age, disability, military status, source of income, marital status or presence of children in a household, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or AIDS-related conditions (ARC), or any other arbitrary basis. No criteria will be applied or information considered pertaining to an attribute of behavior that may be imputed by some to a particular group or category. All criteria shall be applied equitably and all information considered on an applicant shall be related solely to the attributes and behavior of individual members of the household as they may affect residency. The privacy of applicants will be guarded as conferred by the Federal Privacy Act of 1974. This Act in no way limits management’s ability to collect such information as may be needed to determine eligibility, compute rent, or determine an applicant’s suitability for tenancy.

127th Street Apartments is an 85-unit special needs apartment community, located in Los Angeles, California. The property consists of studio and one-bedroom apartments and comes fully furnished and with a refrigerator, stove, dishwasher and central heating and cooling. Fifty-four (54) units are reserved for referrals from the Department of Health Services (DHS) and are set aside for homeless adults who frequent DHS services. Ten (10) units have Project Based Voucher (PBV) rental subsidies provided by Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) and Forty-four (44) rental subsides are provided by Brilliant Corners through the Flexible Housing Subsidy Program (FHSP). Thirty (30) units are designated for households that qualify for the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) and referred through the Department of Mental Health (DMH). The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) will provide rental subsidies through the Project Based Vouchers (PBV) program for all MHSA units. One, two-bedroom unit is for staff.