Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority Board Meeting   6/22/2026

Bridget, you can go up on that.

Turn off the camera, Ben.

So you really can't miss it.

Yeah.

Well, no time to excite it.

I just want to take my camera.

That's something.

Hey, Earl.

Good, how are you?

Do you have a hobby or what?

He is.

At least that's what's in our board agenda packet for City Council.

Well, he could decide not to.

Yeah, I saw something that he was from the board and I think he won't.

If so City Council didn't receive anything.

Commissioner Payne?

Here.

Commissioner Hicks?

Here.

Commissioner Moss?

Here.

Thank you.

Okay, before we move to closed session, I think the last thing that I had said, we were saying the reason was for acquisition.

Okay, all right.

as authorized by section 2.2-3711A3 of the act and also to discuss legal matters.

That would be under 2.2-3711A7.

Yes, 2.2-3711A7.

Can I get a motion to move to closed session?

Motion.

Second.

All in favor.

Yes.

All opposed.

Do we have to go to that same room that only Michael can get us in?

Yes.

and seconded be it resolved that the authority hereby certifies that to the best of each commissioner's knowledge, one, only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements by Virginia law were heard, discussed or considered in the closed meeting and two, only such public business matters, oh my gosh, as were identified in the motion convening the closed meeting were heard, discussed or considered by the authority.

Can I get a motion please?

So moved.

Motion?

Second.

All in favor?

OK. Next up, I'll open up for public comments, followed by PHAR comments.

Thank you very much.

Do any commissioners have updates?

Have a new commissioner if you want to.

Do you want remarks?

I know I don't have remarks, I thought you said.

Next is approval of the board minutes from April 27th, 2026.

I would move approval of the minutes from the April 27th, 2026 meeting.

And with that change, is there a motion to approve?

Second.

Second.

All in favor?

Yes.

Okay, Miss Glenn Matthews and Miss Banks, you're up with the eviction diversion update.

She just pulled together some numbers of individuals she saw that had been in the program from our data bank.

And you can see on the report here.

And is it?

Second page is the drill down into 6th Street and SCATS.

Quick question, when we say 41% of households, are we saying that 41% of all the households on Sixth Street and the scattered sites needed to enroll, or is 41% of the households facing eviction in those sites enrolled?

Okay.

Thank you.

So 39% of the households exited have been re-enrolled.

Yes.

And Miss Banks, did you have anything?

I have several questions.

What percentage of the whole are these numbers that we're looking at right here?

I might need to lean into you, Miss Banks, as far as the number that you are finding with Miss Green that you're not getting contact from.

some people just they don't they don't want us in their business they need the help but they don't want us in their business so it's kind of an uphill battle which as Kathleen said we're still trying to work on we're still trying to find creative ways to get that engagement 101 with the families.

So yeah, I don't is there like we could there be like a threshold at which or we can be in conversation But we're not necessarily with like spending money filing unlawful detainers for people who only owe You know a couple dozen dollars And I might defer to Delphine on this because I think it is part of a larger conversation and

Yes.

And I would like for that to not continue to be the narrative because it is simply inaccurate.

and the way that we create policy and enforce and implement policy.

Families who are zero income can enter, submit for a hardship exemption and have their rent reduced to a zero dollar amount, both in agency program and public housing.

okay and so then maybe that conversation is also that like we need to continue to research the minimum rent option being zero right because that if that's something that we're relying on then maybe having that policy to begin with is something that would actually be helpful and and would again serve our residents as well as allowing us to stay within the boundaries of the law

Maybe we can look into that, but you already have tons of tools.

they don't want necessarily everybody in their business and like living in public housing and affordable housing you have more you know kind of oversight into your lives than others might have so that already exists and I understand that but I'm just trying to say like you know obviously we have a lot of residents who really need help 41% is very high just looking at these you know these sites and so just trying to think out loud here about like what can we as an entity do to support the families who are struggling.

I'm totally open to it.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

CRHA reaches out to a tenant facing eviction and the amount of contact points and what contact points are used.

their attempts, every attempt, whether it's email, whether the person has walked into the office for another reason and they have a conversation, whether it's a phone call, so all of that is required to be documented in the file.

How frequently is that the issue being encountered?

So it just, it really depends and it really is just a mixed pot depending on the month and really what's going on.

and fully recognizing CRHA is not a mental health provider and you know has strong limitations and just what it's able to do but just to get a sense of if there is a situation where kind of the primary barrier for a resident is mental health or addiction what does that next step look like in terms of what agencies they're referred to what exists in the community recognizing I think there's just kind of like systemic gaps in the the mental health care system locally that is far beyond CRHA but

Yes, absolutely.

Is it one day per site, Kathleen?

She was a clinical social worker through Regent Senn.

And one of the things you touched on is getting there through building investment in self-sufficiency, because you just touched on some of what that looks like, as well as I know there's a budget request that was made to the city that didn't make it into our budget, but I know that was aimed at, if you just walk through some of the aims of what that hoped to be able to accomplish.

Cause then we can get people to sit down with us.

The people that are continuing to find themselves in this cycle showing up every month for emergency rent relief.

We're here for you, we want you to talk to us, and then we're gonna be reaching out, trying to find funds.

So that, I mean, I think like for, correct me if I'm wrong, but like part of the impetus for creating the nonprofit was like in part to help with this and where, what's the update on that?

Sure.

So we're in communication and I sent to staff a list of the items that we need in the short term and then we will work in more detail on the application itself after we're past that initial threshold of short term items.

Do we have a target date for completing the filing?

Not that I know of.

Thank you.

A target date for having everything filed.

Yeah, I thought we were shooting for the end of the year.

Is that correct?

However, with regard to simple applications, I have to say in the recent six, in the past six to nine months or so, the IRS has been really quick when it comes to simple applications.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, next up, property management update.

We have a lot going on, but those are some of the things that we wanted to highlight.

Okay HCV program manager update.

You guys have any questions for me?

Kathleen, did you have more for resident services update?

It's going to be all hands on deck for us, August 1st, so make sure you tell everyone where you are.

It's always hot that day.

Well, as a dunk tank, if you want to sign up to be in a dunk tank.

That's you, John.

I'm already number one on the list for the dunk tank.

An additional little food pantry has been, is it installed, John?

Not yet.

So that means we have them now, Sixth Street, Mickey, Madison,

Nicky Mess, Riverside, 6th Street, you have 1-8 Crescent Halls, and Sexy Pantry.

We'll just keep putting pantries everywhere.

So that should be going up as well.

Okay, I will open it up again for PHAR or public comments.

I'm sure you all have been discussing it, but that needs to be shared for the public record, what's going on, and I would hope that you all will make a comment about that before you adjourn tonight.

Thanks.

So we are aware of it and discussing it.

Is there anything else anyone would like to raise?

All right.

May I get a motion to adjourn?

Motion.

All opposed?