Agenda 09/23/2025 Item #16D 4 (Chair to sign four Landlord Payment Agreements between Collier County and four ESG/ESG-RUSH eligible landlords)9/23/2025
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Executive Summary
Recommendation to approve and authorize the Chair to sign four Landlord Payment Agreements between Collier County
and four ESG/ESG-RUSH eligible landlords, allowing the Community and Human Services Division (CHS) to provide
grant-funded rental assistance to individuals and families in the Rapid Re-Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Program through the Emergency Solutions (ESG) and Rapid Unsheltered Survivor Housing (RUSH) Grants. (Housing
Grant Fund 1835)
OBJECTIVE: Provide rental assistance to individuals and families who may be homeless or at risk of homelessness in
support of the County’s Strategic Plan by supporting comprehensive affordable housing opportunities.
CONSIDERATIONS: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides Emergency
Solutions Grants (ESG) and Emergency Solutions Grant Rapid Unsheltered Survivor Housing (RUSH) funds to address
housing-specific homeless and at-risk homeless needs identified in the community. These funds may include payment
for rental application fees, security deposits, utility deposits or payments, last month’s rent, as well as short- or medium-
term rental assistance.
Every five (5) years, the County is required to prepare the Consolidated Plan outlining the goals and activities over the
next five (5) years for the HUD entitlement funds. The 2021-2025 Consolidated Plan, including the FY2021 One-Year
Action Plan, was approved by the Board of County Commissioners (Board) on June 22, 2021, Agenda Item #16.D.7.
Each year the County prepares a One Year Action Plan and includes those ESG activities; as such, the Board approved
the PY2022-2023 Action Plan on June 28, 2022, Agenda Item #16.D.4, the PY2023-2024 Action Plan and ESG funding
budget on July 11, 2023, Agenda Item #16.D.3, the PY2024-2025 Action Plan and ESG funding budget on July 23,
2024, Agenda Item #16.D.4, and the PY2025-2026 Action Plan and ESG funding budget on July 9, 2025, Agenda Item
#16.D.2.
On October 26, 2022, HUD awarded the County $861,716 in Emergency Solutions Grant Rapid Unsheltered Survivor
Housing (ESG RUSH) funding. The Board approved a Substantial Amendment to the PY2022-2023 Annual Action Plan
on December 13, 2022, Agenda Item #16.D.8, and accepted these funds with a performance period from February 14,
2023, to February 13, 2025. HUD awarded a second ESG RUSH allocation of $1,150,486 on February 29, 2024, and the
Board accepted those funds on May 28, 2024, Agenda Item #16.D.4. The County received a third allocation in the
amount of $731,570 on May 10, 2024, with a performance period from May 13, 2024, to May 12, 2026. This special
allocation was included in Substantial Amendment #3 approved by the Board on April 8, 2025, Agenda Item #16.D.5.
As the direct administrators of the ESG/ESG-RUSH grant programs, CHS staff has prepared Landlord Payment
agreements pursuant to 24 CFR 576.106 (e). Landlords are only paid for those costs associated with the leases, i.e. rent,
pet fees, utilities etc. The maximum amount of assistance is determined by the recertification eligibility of the tenant and
as defined by the ESG program parameters. The attached standard Landlord Payment Agreements are presented for
Board Chair signature and execution and shall end upon thirty (30) days' written notice by either party.
Staff have identified the following four landlords as eligible and willing to participate in the program:
1. Akineta Holdings, LLC
2. MHP Bembridge, LLC
3. MHP FL VII LLLP
4. MHP Collier, Ltd.
This Agenda Item supports the Strategic Plan by supporting comprehensive affordable housing opportunities.
FISCAL IMPACT: The proposed actions have no fiscal impact. The funding sources for the award are the Emergency
Solutions Grants which are budgeted in Housing Grant Fund (1835), Projects 33910 (RUSH), 33945 (RUSH), 33917
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and 33949. The required match is available in Housing Grant Fund (1836), Projects 33917 and 33949. Additional
project numbers will be added as future funding years are awarded.
GROWTH MANAGEMENT IMPACT: Acceptance and implementation of this will further the Goals, Objectives,
and Policies within the Housing Element of the Growth Management Plan.
LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS: This item is approved as to form and legality and requires a majority vote for Board
approval. - CLD
RECOMMENDATIONS: To approve and authorize the Chair to sign four Landlord Payment Agreements between
Collier County and four ESG/ESG-RUSH eligible landlords, allowing the Community and Human Services Division
(CHS) to provide grant-funded rental assistance to individuals and families in the Rapid Re-Housing and Homelessness
Prevention Program through the Emergency Solutions (ESG) and Rapid Unsheltered Survivor Housing (RUSH) Grants.
(Housing Grant Fund 1835)
PREPARED BY: Prepared By: Adrienne Meijer, Grants Coordinator I, Community and Human Services Division
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Four landlord agreements
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