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I. Program Details: A. Name of the participating local government: Indian River County Is there an Interlocal Agreement: Yes X No B. Purpose of the program: 1. To meet the housing needs of the very low, low and moderate income households; 2. To expand production of and preserve affordable housing; and 3. To further the housing element of the local government comprehensive plan specific to affordable housing. C. Fiscal years covered by the Plan: 2018-2019, 2019-2020, and 2020-2021 D. Governance: The SHIP Program is established in accordance with Section 420.907-9079, Florida Statutes and Chapter 67-37, Florida Administrative Code. Cities and Counties must be in compliance with these applicable statutes, rules and any additional requirements as established through the Legislative process. E. Local Housing Partnership: The SHIP Program encourages building active partnerships between government, lenders, builders and developers, real estate professionals, advocates for low- income persons, non-profit housing organizations, and community groups. F. Leveraging: The Plan is intended to increase the availability of affordable residential units by combining local resources and cost saving measures into a local housing partnership and using public and private funds to reduce the cost of housing. SHIP funds may be leveraged with or used to supplement other Florida Housing Finance Corporation programs and to provide local match to obtain federal housing grants, loans or programs. G. Public Input: Public input was solicited through face to face meetings with housing providers, social service providers, local lenders, neighborhood associations, Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, and the Indian River County Affordable Housing Partnership Group. Public input was solicited through the county website and in the advertising of the Local Housing Assistance Plan Notice of Funding Availability in the local newspaper. H. Advertising and Outreach: SHIP funding availability shall be advertised in the Press Journal (the local newspaper of general circulation) and on the county website, at least 30 days before the beginning of the application period. If no funding is available due to a queue list, no notice of funding availability is required. I. Queue List/Priorities: A queue list will be established when applicants apply to the county SHIP program. Those households on the queue list will be contacted by staff when their queue number is pulled. The queue list will be maintained with applicants listed in an order that is consistent with the time that their preliminary intake forms were submitted. Queue numbers will be assigned based on that order. Adjustments to the queue order may be made to achieve any established funding priorities as described in this plan. -3- F:\Community Development\SHIP\LHAP\2018-2021 LHAP