Stark County, Ohio Consolidated Plan

FY ‘14 – ’18

Public Meeting, February 27, 2014Stark County Regional Planning

Commission

The Consolidated Plan

• Provides the County’s long-term and short-term community development goals and objectives that have been developed to address the national goals of the CDBG program, which include:

CDBG Program Goals

• The provision of decent housing that is affordable to low- and moderate-income households

• The provision of suitable living environment, improving the safety and livability of neighborhoods, increasing access to quality facilities and services, improving housing opportunities, and revitalizing deteriorated neighborhoods

CDBG Program Goals

• The expansion of economic opportunities, creating jobs that promote long term economic and social viability and that are accessible to low- and moderate-income persons

Background Information

• Plan required by HUD to serve as local guidance document

• Creation of plan has been underway for one year

• Covers housing issues in the HOME Consortium and infrastructure issues in the Stark County CDBG area

• HOME Consortium: Alliance + Massillon + Stark County CDBG area

Background continued

• Public Involvement Process• Surveys Distributed: May 2013• Four Public Meetings: May/June 2013• Full Draft Plan @ www.rpc.co.stark.oh.us • 30 Day Comment Period starts March 10 • Public Hearing on March 19 @ 11:30 at RPC

Background continued

• Timing of Plan/ Timing of Census• Census 2010 and American Community

Survey 2009 & 2011 all utilized• Comments will be reviewed and

addressed• Board of Stark County Commissioners

will adopt and submit to HUD by 5/15/14

Sections

• Background Data, including:– Population– Economy– Housing Market Analysis– Housing Needs Assessment (inc. lead paint/low-

income housing/homelessness)– Transportation & Infrastructure

Data Highlights

• Population 380,575 in 2006 376,142 in 2011

374,868 in 2013• Aging population

median age 33.6 in 1990 40.2 in 2006 40.9 in 2012

Data Highlights continued

• Increase in female-headed households:• 8% in 1980• 11% in 1990• 13% in 2000• 14.1% in 2006• 18.8% in 2010

Data Highlights continued

• % of people living in poverty - 10% in 2010

- 9.9% in 2006 - 55.2% of female head. hholds. with

children in 2010 - 35.8% of female head. hholds. with children in 2006

Aging Population

• As of 2013, there were 60,301 people that are 65 years old and over, making up 16.0% of the County’s population, higher than the state and the national average

• 14.8% of households in Stark County have at least one person aged 75 or older

• Nearly 30% of the 65 and older population lived alone during State Fiscal Year 2011

Low and Moderate Income HH’s

• 2,546 units of public housing in Stark County; waiting list of 543 households, 40% of them having children (2013 data)

• 1,552 Section 8 housing vouchers; waiting list of 412 households, 57% of them having children

• Waiting lists closed• Families with children only 30% of Stark’s

population

High Rents

• According to the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice Report, the urban county (includes the three largest cities) lost almost half of its units renting for less than $500 between 2000 – 2008

• Minimum wage and single income households cannot afford a 2-bedroom unit renting for the HUD Fair Market rent in Stark County

• Units renting for $500 - $700 also dropped by almost 4% between 2000 – 2008

Housing Cost Burden

• Over 88% of people in the region spend more than 45% of income on housing and transportation combined, according to the Center for Neighborhood Technology

• CNT has defined an affordable range for H+T as the combined costs consuming no more than 45%

• The average for Northeast Ohio is that 82% of people spend more than 45% on these costs

• By taking into account both the cost of housing and of transportation associated with the location of the home, H+T provides a more complete understanding of affordability

Data Highlights continued

• Vacancy rate: 4.7% in 2000; 5.4% in 2006; 7.1% in 2010 in consortium (9.1 in 2010 in Stark County)

• Roughly 75% of housing units in the consortium were built before 1980

• Median home value: $100,000 in 2000;$128,000 in 2006; $126,700 in 2010

Abandonment

• According to the Stark County Sheriff’s Office, there were approximately 1,500 foreclosed properties auctioned at Sheriff sales in 2013

Moving Ohio Forward

• Stark County received over $2.3 million to demolish blighted or abandoned residential structures to help reclaim and improve neighborhoods.

• The total number of demolitions done under the program, including those under contract to be demolished prior to the end of June 2014, are between 80-85.

• This number does not include more than 100 in the City of Canton HOME program. Twenty-seven of the homes were in Alliance, 20 in Massillon, and the remaining in the balance of the Consortium.

Population Estimate the # of persons experiencing homelessness on a

given night

Estimate the # experiencing

homelessness each year

Sheltered Unsheltered

Persons in Households with Adult(s) and Child(ren)

222 8 1,231Persons in Households with Only Children

0 1 1Persons in Households with Only Adults

244 47 1,623Chronically Homeless Individuals

30 24 184Chronically Homeless Families

6 0 26Veterans

44 8 101Unaccompanied Child

0 1 1Persons with HIV

0 0 1

Infrastructure Needs

• In 2013, infrastructure needs identified by OPWC applications:

-$5.6 million in water lines- $29.5 million in streets & sidewalks- $6.1 million in storm sewers

• This doesn’t include septic and sewer needs• This doesn’t include community needs that

didn’t apply for funding through OPWC

Identified Needs

• Public improvements • Emergency shelter• Aging population• Affordable housing

Goals & Objectives

• Preservation of Affordable Housing• Infrastructure Improvements for Health

& Safety Issues• Focused Public Services for Health, Safety

& Economic Recovery