3 Capital Funding
3.1 Objectives
Under SSRF Phase 2, capital costs will be permitted as a new area of eligible expenses. Capital funding would enable the acquisition of new, or modifications to existing facilities such as emergency shelters, supportive housing, transitional housing, and related facilities.
The objectives under this component, which includes the attached Schedule “A”, are:
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To provide longer-term housing-based solutions to homelessness post-COVID-19 outbreak;
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To better address need and to encourage movement toward client service models that are innovative, and seek to support client and organizational readiness in preparation for potential future outbreaks or emergencies; and
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To change the physical design of congregate care settings such as emergency shelters, to permit elements such as physical distancing and self-contained bedrooms and washrooms.
3.2 Eligible Use of Funding
There are two components of major capital funding:
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New Facilities; and
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Retrofits and Upgrades.
Eligible uses of funding under the two components include:
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Major retrofits and upgrades to an existing Service Manager-administered emergency shelter, over-flow shelter, and/or congregate living space to help ensure shelter spaces adhere to public health directives (e.g., additions to an existing facility to allow minimum spacing of beds; self-contained bedrooms and washrooms) and support independent units aligned with more permanent forms of housing where possible;
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Purchase of a hotel, motel or other facility that would be converted/upgraded to provide longer-term housing solutions; and
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Retrofit of existing Service Manager-administered transitional or supportive housing facility, and/or creating new innovative models of transitional and supportive housing.
Other eligible costs may include labour, applicable taxes, building permits, legal fees, certificates, appraisal fees, inspection fees, drawing and specification and any other costs that the Service Manager deems reasonable and that are agreed to by MMAH.