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MONROE COUNTY RENT-GAP FUNDS to reduce homelessness & make housing more affordable for tenants
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1980 individuals who had temporary assistance in 2022 + 520 (estimate of sanctioned or unsheltered individuals who should have received TA) or 2500 total individuals1250Current Rent Assistance to individual paid by MCDHS to a 1-person family (studio) $ 440 Current Fair Market Rent (FMR) rate of apartments in Monroe County (studio) $ 839 what is the GAP between MCDHS rent assistance and Fair Market Rent rates? $ 399 PROPOSED MONROE COUNTY RENT GAP FUNDING x number of unduplicated individuals & families who have temporary assistance $ 498,750 How much would the tenant have for rent with DHS rent subsidy plus GAP funding? $ 839 individual (studio)
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1250TA assistance paid to a 1-person family $ 440 FMR 1-bedroom $ 950 $ 510 $ 637,500 $ 950 individual (1-bedroom)
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629 families who had temporary assistance in 2022 + 171 (estimated sanctioned or unsheltered families who should have received TA) or 800 total families267TA assistance to 2-person family $ 589 FMR 2-bedroom $ 1,186 $ 597 $ 159,200 $ 1,186 2-person family
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267TA assistance to 3-person family $ 732 FMR 3-bedroom $ 1,443 $ 711 $ 189,600 $ 1,443 3-person family
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267TA assistance to 4-person family $ 875 FMR 4-bedroom $ 1,593 $ 718 $ 191,467 $ 1,593 4-person family
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MONTHLY COST OF GAP FUNDING
 $ 1,676,517
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SUBTOTAL
 $ 20,118,200
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Indirect Costs (facilities & administration) $ 3,017,730
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TOTAL COST
 $ 23,135,930
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Footnotes
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12022 Number of Households Receiving Temporary Assistance from Monroe County Housing Plan 2022-24. Estimate of Sanctions using 2019 Individuals and Families with Temporary Assistance cases 2019 https://www.monroecounty.gov/files/hs/2019%20Annual%20Housing%20Report%20-%20final.pdf
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2Monthly Temporary Assistance Cash Grant in Monroe County in 2022 (See table page 41) https://www.monroecounty.gov/files/hs/DHS%20101%2010.2022%20update.pdf
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3 Due to lack of available precise data, this summary assumes number of people in each individual household size by dividing 2980 (total individuals estimated) by 2 (50% of individuals in studios and 50% of individuals in 1-bedrooms) and 829 (total est. families) by 3 (one-third of families in each household size)
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4HUD Fair Market Rent rates for 2023 at https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/FY2023_code/2023summary.odn
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5The proposed Housig Task Force could help ensure that dedicated rental assistance is not laid to waste by unchecked 'source of income' (SOI) discrimination. Right now, City attorneys don't have the standing to enforce their own source of income discrimination code, but that's something that city council could theoretically address by amending the code. If the County pays for this rent-gap subsidy, the City should amend their code to ensure that the funds are being used to maximum effect within City of Rochester boundaries.Without robust enforcement of the SOI discrimination laws, the amount of housing practically available to people who recieve this subsidy becomes vanishingly small.
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6Monroe County's Annual Housing Plan for 2022-24 submitted to OTDA aks the steps that the district will undertake to reduce the average length of emergency housing stays, include Monroe County stating: Shelter supplements will be utilized to aid households in securing units typically not affordable to them." (Monroe County DHS Annual Housing Plan available at https://empirejustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Monroe-County-Homeless-Services-Plan-2020-2022.pdf at page 11, question 5a.
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