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Document Recording Fee HB2048/SB 5952:
Summary: The document recording fee supports state and county approaches to preventing and ending homelessness ncluding housing vouchers, eviction prevention services, short-term housing assistance, and emergency shelter. The DRF bills extend the sunset of a $20 real estate document recording fee set to expire in 2013. The $20 fee will be extended for four years and a new temporary $10 fee (set to expire in 2015) will be added to compensate for fewer documents during the recession.
Status: This bill died in the final hours of the last session as the Senate ran out of time. The bill was reintroduced this session in the House and Senate, passed out of Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Housing & Insurance and sent to Senate Ways and Means.
Housing Trust Fund:
Summary: The Housing Trust Fund is a capital fund that creates and preserves affordable housing in all communities across Washington State. The HTF leverages more than four times its funding from other sources and acts as a stimulus to the local economy by providing jobs. More than seventy percent of people served by Housing Trust Fund units make less than $17,540 per year, making it a vital resource in the fight to end homelessness.
Status: Thought before session to be an impossibility, the HTF is now part of a larger jobs bill package rolled out in a Wednesday press conference. Funding for Housing Trust would be $100 million.
Housing and Essential Needs (HEN):
Summary: Housing and Essential Needs (HEN) is a new program created last session and enacted in November 2011 in place of the Disability Lifeline cash assistance program. Instead of providing $197/month in cash assistance to all eligible clients who were disabled (physically and/or mentally) and temporarily unable to work, the HEN program supports housing costs for
some former DL-U clients who are eligible for Medical Care Services (MCS) because of their disability and are homeless or at risk of being homeless. The state allocation for HEN was less than half the allocation for DL-U cash assistance. Clients receiving medical care services are referred to HEN for evaluation and could be eligible to receive up to $400 in housing support as well as essential needs including bus passes.
Status: The program operates in all counties but with HEN being a relatively new program and not an automatic part of MCS, referrals are taking a while to build. With only a few months experience in running the program and smaller than anticipated expenditures, the budget for next year may be at risk.
Document Recording Fee HB2048/SB 5952:
Summary: The document recording fee supports state and county approaches to preventing and ending homelessness ncluding housing vouchers, eviction prevention services, short-term housing assistance, and emergency shelter. The DRF bills extend the sunset of a $20 real estate document recording fee set to expire in 2013. The $20 fee will be extended for four years and a new temporary $10 fee (set to expire in 2015) will be added to compensate for fewer documents during the recession.
Status: This bill died in the final hours of the last session as the Senate ran out of time. The bill was reintroduced this session in the House and Senate, passed out of Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Housing & Insurance and sent to Senate Ways and Means.
Housing Trust Fund:
Summary: The Housing Trust Fund is a capital fund that creates and preserves affordable housing in all communities across Washington State. The HTF leverages more than four times its funding from other sources and acts as a stimulus to the local economy by providing jobs. More than seventy percent of people served by Housing Trust Fund units make less than $17,540 per year, making it a vital resource in the fight to end homelessness.
Status: Thought before session to be an impossibility, the HTF is now part of a larger jobs bill package rolled out in a Wednesday press conference. Funding for Housing Trust would be $100 million.
Housing and Essential Needs (HEN):
Summary: Housing and Essential Needs (HEN) is a new program created last session and enacted in November 2011 in place of the Disability Lifeline cash assistance program. Instead of providing $197/month in cash assistance to all eligible clients who were disabled (physically and/or mentally) and temporarily unable to work, the HEN program supports housing costs for
some former DL-U clients who are eligible for Medical Care Services (MCS) because of their disability and are homeless or at risk of being homeless. The state allocation for HEN was less than half the allocation for DL-U cash assistance. Clients receiving medical care services are referred to HEN for evaluation and could be eligible to receive up to $400 in housing support as well as essential needs including bus passes.
Status: The program operates in all counties but with HEN being a relatively new program and not an automatic part of MCS, referrals are taking a while to build. With only a few months experience in running the program and smaller than anticipated expenditures, the budget for next year may be at risk.
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