FY2023 Adopted Operating and Capital Budget

FY2023 Adopted Budget Organizational Budgets

Citizens Services Division

HOMEBUYER PROGRAMS The Home Buyer Assistance Program provides down payment and closing cost assistance in the form of zero percent interest deferred loans to low income first time homebuyers who live or work in Frederick County. HOMEOWNER REPAIR AND REHABILITATION PROGRAMS The Emergency Housing Rehabilitation Program provides low income homeowners in the county with a zero percent deferred loan for emergency home repair and accessibility needs. The Senior Housing Rehabilitation Grant Program provides extremely low income homeowners, with a household member who is 55 years of age or older, with grant funds for emergency home repair and accessibility needs. The Maryland Housing Rehabilitation Program is

administered by the department on behalf of the State of Maryland and provides amortizing and deferred loans and grants to homeowners of low to moderate incomes. It is designed to bring properties up to applicable building codes and standards, fund accessibility modifications to allow senior homeowners to remain in their homes, abate lead paint and provide well and septic improvements to assist with indoor plumbing needs. MODERATELY PRICED DWELLING UNIT PROGRAM (MPDU) The Moderately Priced Dwelling Unit Program supports affordable housing in the County by requiring every new development of 25 or more units on public water and sewer in the county to build 12.5% of the units as affordable, or make a Payment in Lieu (PIL) of $26,500 for each MPDU that would otherwise be built. The PIL rate is based on the ³DIIRUGDELOLW\ JDS´ FDOFXODWLRQ DV RXWOLQHG LQ WKH MPDU Ordinance and is updated triennially. Developers must pay the rate in effect at the time the permits for the project are pulled, and the current rate of $26,500 is reflected here. DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAMS The Impact Fee Deferral Program provides non-profit and other developers of affordable housing units with exemptions from impact fees. The Deferred Loan Program (DLP) provides zero percent interest, deferred and gap loans to non-profits and other housing developers to leverage other funding to create and preserve affordable housing in the county. The Payment in Lieu of Taxes Program (PILOT) provides for a negotiated payment instead of property taxes for affordable housing development. RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS Housing Choice Voucher Programs (Section 8) provides rental assistance for nearly 500 very low income eligible households. The Moderate Rehabilitation Program (also Section 8) provides unit-based rent assistance to very low income families at a 20-unit property in Emmitsburg. Bell Court Senior Housing is a County owned facility of 28 one bedroom, cottage style, one level townhomes with a community center for very low income seniors. (The development is named for the family of William Bell in thanks for his generous donation of land.) HOMELESS AND TRANSITIONAL HOUSING GRANTS Two Memorandums of Understanding provide funding to the Religious Coalition for Emergency Human Needs, Inc., to operate a year round shelter and to provide homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing assistance to those experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

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