Continuum of Care Analyst for the Division of Housing Stability

About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

• We maintain building and resident safety and health
• We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
• We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness,” Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth. ________________________________________

Your Team:

The Office of Housing Access and Stability (“HAS”) consists of the divisions of Housing Opportunity, Tenant and Owner Resources, Housing Stability, Budget and Program Operations, and Program Policy and Innovation. The mission of the office is to ensure fair, efficient, and transparent access to affordable housing. The Office provides subsidies, placement services, and tools that connect New Yorkers to affordable housing and ensures vulnerable households in subsidized housing have the support they need to be safely housed. Housing Access is committed to expanding housing choices, affirmatively furthering fair housing, and stabilizing the financial health of buildings.

The Division of Housing Stability helps to ensure that formerly homeless tenants entering affordable housing (supportive and non-supportive) and owners of such housing have the necessary tools to successfully transition tenants into their new homes and maintain their tenancy. It administers and monitors project-based rental assistance contracts including ~$50MM in Continuum of Care (CoC) rental assistance, Section 8 Project Based Vouchers, and NY 15/15. The unit also manages HPD’s role in the NYC CoC, oversees HPD’s Housing Retention and Stabilization programs, and works to secure funding to expand these services to a broader scope of households.

The Division of Housing Stability helps to ensure that tenants entering affordable housing (supportive and non-supportive) have the tools they need to successfully transition into their new homes and maintain their tenancy.
The Continuum of Care (CoC) team within Housing Stability is the grantee/recipient of 44 Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grants. These grants provide project-based rental assistance for permanent supportive housing projects that are operated by non-profit agencies/subrecipients.

Your Impact:

As a CoC Analyst, you will oversee a portfolio of CoC grants and work with subrecipients operating permanent supportive housing programs in New York City. Successful candidates will have expertise in working with community partners and knowledge of federal housing programs from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that serve persons experiencing homelessness.

Your Role:

Your role as the Continuum of Care Analyst will involve overseeing a portfolio of CoC grants under the supervision of the Director and Deputy Director of Continuum of Care Contracts.

Your Responsibilities

• Complete the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) renewal project applications for the Continuum of Care grants on an annual basis. Review, process, and communicate with subrecipients and city government partners on the NOFO applications.
• Review the Annual Progress Report (APR) for each CoC grant and work with subrecipients, other city government partners as well as third-party vendors to address data quality and performance issues reported within the New York City Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)
• Manage and maintain assigned selection of projects within the CoC portfolio to track performance using independent judgment and knowledge of HUD administrative requirements.

• Provide guidance to subrecipients on how to remain in compliance with eligibility, occupancy, and spend down on awarded grants.

• Review and analyze monthly rent rolls against various internal databases to ensure full occupancy, rent increases/decreases, and housing quality standards are being fulfilled within the subrecipient’s contractual obligation.

• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders to strategically resolve issues with projects underperforming in areas of occupancy and spend-down.

• Attend the New York City Coalition on the Continuum of Care (NYC CoC) at large quarterly meetings to remain current on HUD rules and CoC grant regulation.
• Participate in teleconferences with sponsors at risk for low performance to address overall grant performance issues and provide necessary tools to increase productivity.

- Facilitate transfers within and the CoC portfolio for the Violence Against Women’s Act (VAWA), Reasonable Accommodation, Safety, and Non-Medical & Non- Safety requests.

• Review and analyze subrecipients monthly Project Performance Summary Reports (PPS) based on utilization, data reporting, and spend-down within subrecipients’ grant term.
• Provide support to the CoC Compliance Analyst related to an assigned portfolio to address performance-related issues per HUD regulations.
• Comply with grant administration requirements for CoC grants received by HPD.

In addition to the tasks described above, the individual hired will be expected to take on related duties as needed.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working with homelessness and/or supportive housing.
• Ability to communicate clearly.
• Organization and prioritization.
• Ability to work well independently as well as with other team members and community stakeholders.
• Attention to detail and time management.
• Ability to handle multiple projects.
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office suite, including functionality with Excel.