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Salt Lake City plans technical shift of HOME-ARP funds to cover case management for rental-assistance programs
Summary
Housing staff asked council to support a budget-neutral substantial amendment that shifts about $230,000 of HOME-ARP funds from tenant-based rental assistance to supportive services to allow case management for three subrecipients; no change in beneficiaries or total awards was proposed.
Salt Lake City housing staff on Sept. 9 proposed a budget-neutral, programmatic amendment to the city’s HOME-ARP allocation plan to move roughly $230,000 from the tenant-based rental assistance (TBRA) category into the supportive-services category so selected subrecipients can fund case management.
Lisonbee Roland, council policy analyst, and Heather Royal, deputy director of the Housing Stability Division, told council members that HUD later clarified case management is not eligible under the HOME-ARP TBRA category even though similar case-management costs are allowable under regular HOME funds. The technical reclassification would not change the number of beneficiaries, the dollar amounts awarded to organizations, or the selected organizations; it would align the city’s allocations with HUD program rules.
Staff said the change affects three subrecipients: Asian Association, Odyssey House and Utah Community Action, and that the shift would permit those providers to use HOME-ARP supportive-services funds to cover case management integral to their rental-assistance programs. Housing staff noted the City adopted its HOME-ARP allocation plan in March 2023 and that HOME-ARP funds awarded in 2021 must be spent according to HUD timelines; staff listed a public hearing scheduled for Oct. 7, 2025, and potential council action on Oct. 21, 2025, as the next steps.
Housing staff said two development projects receiving HOME-ARP development funding are near completion and that other allocations (e.g., The Road Home) are already being drawn down. The change described by staff is strictly a federal-category reclassification and would be submitted to HUD as a substantial amendment after the city’s public-comment and hearing process.
Councilors did not take formal action in the work session; staff said they will conduct a 30-day public comment period and hold the public hearing on Oct. 7, 2025, before returning to the council for possible adoption of a resolution on Oct. 21, 2025.
