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Panama City housing staff outlines program funding, county shifts and spending deadlines
Summary
City staff summarized federal, state and local housing funding streams — including NSP, SHIP and HHRP — described how the county moved administration of some disaster recovery funds back in-house, and flagged expenditure deadlines and affordability periods for property programs.
Sheila Ware, Housing and Community Services, told the Panama City Commission at a July virtual workshop that the department manages a mix of federal and state housing funding and multiple programs intended to increase and preserve affordable housing.
Ware said the department had reduced direct housing staff from seven full‑time employees to "4 and a half" working directly in housing and that the office administers programs funded through Neighborhood Stabilization Program grants (NSP 1 and NSP 3), the State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP), Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) money and Hurricane Housing Recovery Program (HHRP) disaster grants.
The city received NSP 3 funds; the county had awarded NSP 1 and asked the city to administer the county’s award, Ware said. She reported 31 county‑conveyed NSP properties were purchased and 18 of those were resold to eligible applicants while 13 remain affordable rentals managed by the city. Ware said the properties…
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