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Programs
Edie Streett Security Deposit
Assistance Program
Small loans to assist with a security deposit.
Virginia Ely Senior Rental Assistance Program
Senior housing rental subsidy program for Fairfax County
Ruth Sullivan Program
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 Edie Streett Security
Deposit Loan Program
Cognizant of the difficulties that homeless and/or
low and very low income families and households face to save a sufficient
amount of money for both the first month's rent and the security deposit
when moving to permanent affordable rental housing, CFH provides one time
security deposit loans to qualified applicants in amounts up to $200. Named
for a former CFH President, the Edie Streett Security Deposit Loan Program,
in collaboration with local housing counselors, social workers and churches
or other referring agencies, CFH staff processes the application for
assistance, and upon verification of eligibility, mails the loan deposit to
the new landlord. CFH staff track the applicants through the loan
repayment process, contacting landlords and/or tenants (loan recipients)
when necessary.
Private donations and grants leveraged by CFH fund all security
deposit assistance under this program. Since July 1988, this program has
assisted approximately 80 households per year move from homelessness or
transitional housing into permanent affordable housing throughout the
Northern Virginia area.. More than two-thirds of those helped each year by
the security deposit program are children.
Because CFH receives many more requests for assistance than it has funds
to serve, the organization will continue to seek new sources for
contributions for these loans. With additional funding, CFH could expand
both the number of persons served as well as the loan amounts. CFH also
provides valuable housing and other resource information and referral
services to clients and counselors pursuant to its administration of the
security deposit loan program.
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 Virginia
Ely Senior Rental Assistance Program
With
significant funding from the Consolidated Community Funding Pool for
Human Services in Fairfax County, Virginia, supplemented by other various
funders, CFH's highly successful senior housing rental subsidy program
currently serves twenty-seven very low income seniors in Fairfax County.
This assistance enables financially vulnerable elderly to achieve permanent
affordable housing at a Fairfax County sponsored senior residence. CFH
maintains a waiting list of eligible seniors, so all subsidies currently
available are fully utilized at all times throughout the year.
Under current program guidelines established by CFH, all elderly
households served earn less than 20% of the area median income. This year
CFH expanded this program to provide short term rental subsidies for seniors
facing sudden financial hardship which would otherwise cause them to face
possible eviction from county housing. Based on recommendations made by
facility staff, CFH provides short term assistance while long term solutions
(such as Housing Choice Vouchers) may be obtained.
One success in leveraging donations and grants for this program has
been through the Wardman-Naselli Trust at Sun Bank. Since 1998, CFH
has been awarded approximately $42,000 in support of the Virginia Ely
Program. Grants such as these assure CFH funding a number of senior
subsidies. CFH will continue to seek contributions and grant funding to
further expand the program to serve additional low income elderly in need of
affordable housing. CFH is working with Fairfax County staff to provide
additional subsidy opportunities for low income elderly as new senior
housing facilities are being developed.
The Virginia Ely Program is grateful
for the continuing support of the
Fairfax County Consolidated Community
Funding Pool (CCFP).
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Ruth
Sullivan Program
This
fund affords residents of CFH housing projects opportunities for career or
life-skills training, community education opportunities and educational and
recreational events for their children. Now that Briarcliff remains in
the CFH portfolio, plans are being formulated in conjunction with the
Fairfax County Department of Housing to establish a
computer-learning/community center to benefit both adult and student
residents of the CFH Briarcliff project and the adjacent Briarcliff II owned
by the county.
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