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Diversion and Homelessness Prevention
3.1. Offer flexible funding to help divert households from entering the housing crisis response system and into stable living situations. STRATEGY
1. Create “flex funds” to either be directly awarded or accessible to agencies with formal diversion in place.
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2. SPEH to provide continued training and support to agencies implementing diversion practices.
3. SPEH to provide uniform diversion tracking across participating agencies.
3.2. Establish a Manatee County permanent rental assistance program. STRATEGY
1. Similar to the Treasury’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP), communities can establish their own self-funded rental assistance program.
2. Offer prevention assistance to households with 80% of the area median income (AMI) or below.
3. Target a portion of prevention assistance to households with 50% AMI who are at the highest risk of homelessness.
