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General Fund

The Neighborhood Stabilization and Outreach Division is dedicated to working with neighborhoods to plan,
coordinate, and promote resources to make neighborhoods more livable, address systemic neighborhood issues,
and foster resident self-sufficiency. Staff also manages the Alleyway Maintenance Program and Neighborhood
Stabilization and Improvement Program. This division also implements the Neighborhood Profile
Area/Performance Indicator Initiative, which tracks key performances measures for the city’s neighborhoods.
They also provide the community outreach that supports the various programs that the department operates and
manages.

The Rehabilitation and Construction Division delivers home repair services to low income homeowners through
the Priority Repair, Weatherization, Cowtown Brush-up and Lead Safe programs.

The Compliance and Planning Division ensures that the city continues to receive approximately $20M in state and
federal grants annually, through preparing grant proposals and plans, complying with HUD grant reporting
requirements, and enforcing regulatory compliance through training and monitoring activities.

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2017 Outstanding Development Award: This award was received from the Texas Association of Local Housing
Finance Agencies (TALHFA) for the Columbia at Renaissance Square multi-family development. The TALHFA is a
non-profit organization with approximately 250 members statewide consisting of local housing finance
corporations, bankers, attorneys, developers, trustees, service providers, consultants, and others.

2018 Redevelopment Excellence: This award was received from the National Association of Local Housing Finance
Agencies (NALHFA) for the Columbia at Renaissance Square multi-family development. The NALHFA is the national
association of professionals working to finance affordable housing in the broader community development
context at the local level.

Neighborhood Improvement Strategy (NIS) was a pilot program aimed at using data about neighborhoods to make
communities more vital and raise the quality of life. City Council approved $2.56 million to pilot the Neighborhood
Improvement Strategy program in the Cavile Place/Stop Six area for FY2017.

Stop Six Accomplishments: Stop Six/Cavile Place was selected as the first target pilot area due to the data that
showed its unemployment rate was two-and-a-half times the city average, 78% of the population is categorized
as low-to-moderate income, and a crime rate where 65 per 1,000 people were victims of crime. The area needed
an aggressive effort to improve neighborhood vitality. The city allocated $2.56 million in the FY2017 budget to
focus on reducing the number of felony incidents, enhancing pedestrian safety, improving residents’ perception
of their community, improving neighborhood aesthetics, and leveraging additional public and private investments.

Stop Six accomplishments to date include: 7,500 linear feet of sidewalks constructed; 278 tons of vegetation and
debris removed from right-of-way and city-owned lots; 373 dead/hazardous/nuisance trees removed from ROW
and city-owned lots; 21 substandard structures secured; 18 substandard structures demolished; 1,320 linear feet
of walking trail constructed at Rosedale Plaza Park; 29 lights installed at Martin Luther King Community Center
and Park; 309 streetlights installed; and 35 police surveillance cameras are being installed.

In FY2018, Ash Crescent was the second neighborhood selected for the revitalization program, designed to make
street, sidewalk and other quality-of-life improvements. In return, the neighborhood will be safer and more
attractive to private development. Ash Crescent allocation was $2,767,000.

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