HOME-ARP Allocation Plan Amendment

At a glance

What: Resolution 52-26 (file 26-152) approving an amendment to the City's HOME-ARP (HOME Investment Partnerships Program, American Rescue Plan) Allocation Plan, for submittal to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Outcome: Adopted 9-0-0-0 on May 26, 2026.
Deadline: Casey asked when the funds must be spent; Aimee Cox said by 2030.

Cox, Chief Housing and Homelessness Response Officer, presented HOME-ARP, eligible activities, qualifying populations, current allocation and expenditures, the need for the amendment, the proposed amendment and limitation, amendment amounts and process. A presentation was first given to Council on May 11, 2026.
Leinweber asked what a non-congregate shelter is (a private room) and whether the funding streams for other shelters would shrink because of the resolution (Cox: they will not).
Speakers in support: Beth Roalstad (CEO, Homeward Pikes Peak) and Artie Lehl (Executive Director, Colorado Springs Housing Authority).

Cox presented the amendment at the 2026-05-11 - City Council Work Session: eligible activities, qualifying populations, current allocation and expenditures, the need for the amendment, the proposed limitation and the process.
Rainey Jr. asked about the plan for 2027; Cox said this one-time adjustment is the course correction so the funds are spent by 2030. Leinweber asked what supporting at-risk people costs (about $2.4 million for rental assistance for eighty households for two years) and the Point in Time homeless count (1,745). Henjum asked for a Colorado Springs Housing Authority Board presentation at a future work session; President Crow-Iverson supported the resolution.
Source: minutes https://legistar2.granicus.com/coloradosprings/meetings/2026/5/2782_M_City_Council_Work_Session_26-05-11_Meeting_Minutes.pdf (item 8.I).

May 26, 2026: moved by Gold, seconded by Rainey Jr.; adopted 9-0-0-0 (Casey, Crow-Iverson, Donelson, Gold, Henjum, Leinweber, Rainey Jr., Risley, Williams).

City Council minutes, May 26, 2026: https://legistar2.granicus.com/coloradosprings/meetings/2026/5/2781_M_City_Council_26-05-26_Meeting_Minutes.pdf (item 10.A; attachments: resolution, HOME-ARP plan amendment, May 11, 2026 presentation, signed Resolution 52-26).

New Business item 10.A. Short questions on shelter type, other funding and the spending deadline; two speakers in support; adopted 9-0.

Introduced (item 8.I); questions on the 2030 spending deadline, rental assistance cost and the Point in Time count.