Remarks by Victoria L. Mallette
19 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. So US HUD came out with its annual competition, the Continuum of Care Program Competition. They released the NOFO, as it's known as, on June 1. We issued a local RFA as the collaborative applicant. We will seek proposals from the community and then come back to this body for approval or disapproval of our recommendations. This NOFO marks a dramatic shift from permanent housing to transitional housing and support service only programs. HUD has outlined the following goals, improving outcomes, improving innovation and accountability, restoring balance to the COC, i.e., the…”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr chair. So, in for the fiscal year 2024, nofo, it was intended to be a 2 year competition to cover 24 and 25 and allow to plan amend systems, et cetera. The 24 grants have passed. and the 2025 grants need to go into effect there was litigation with the 25 nofo hud ended up issuing a nofo even though it was supposed to be a two-year cycle we went through that process this body approved recommendations The litigation continued, and HUD said on May 21st, we're just going to renew all grants in the portfolio. This includes the Youth Homeless Demonstration Program grants for us. This…”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. So as this body knows, we received a planning grant in the amount of $325,000 to begin to rethink our homeless prevention system. We are doing this in partnership with a randomized control trial operated by University of Notre Dame, Right at Home, Destination Home. This is a national initiative with only a select few number of communities selected to participate.”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“10, but I think they've added 1 or 2 more since so it's very exclusive. So. The assistant director and I, Manny went to a conference in San Jose earlier this month, not a conference at convening of the right at home partners. And we were notified that we will receive 7M dollars over the course of 3 years. to implement this targeted homeless prevention initiative this body has not yet seen the budget but we are also putting some recommending some local food and beverage dollars a million a year for three years so we can do this randomized control trial study the outcomes in a in a very…”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. In the prior item, I forgot to recognize Dolores Holly with Housing and Community Development. She put us on to right at home. She was at a conference, paid for by herself, heard about the initiative, said, I have a continuum for you. So I appreciate her putting this. Thank you for doing that.”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“I would also like to recognize Chief Burgos and Judge Leifman for the monumental task of having our Board of County Commissioners unanimously approve with Chairman Rodriguez's leadership the funding needed to open the Mental Health Center. As you know, we had a $1.1 million prior commitment approved by this board in the center. There were some challenges in moving the item forward. The administration came back to us.”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“So we talked about a service layer. We also had a conversation earlier in the week. It may offset the cost of a couple of crisis stable, crisis stable utilization beds, but there's more conversation to come. So we will have conversations. We want to be able to make sure that we can tie the activity back to food and beverage funds so we do not violate the statute in any way. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the administration came back to us when there were some challenges in moving the item forward and said, can we further leverage food and beverage funds for the benefit of homeless and people being…”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. On May 24th, we received a letter from Camillus House expressing some financial challenges. and seeking to return contracts to the homeless trust effective July 1. we have been working with them very closely to find a way forward with this little impact to households in the continuum as possible and I I'm going to walk you through a couple of those changes The trust owns property in Homestead on the Air Reserve Base. There are three projects on that property, St. Michael's, Mother Seton, and Verde Gardens, all three of which are operated by Camilla's House. St. Michael's…”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. So we have just begun receiving deeper documentation to better understand the financial picture of the organization. We expect additional documentation today, and we have every intent of reaching out to the office, the auditors here in the county, to take a closer look at the documentation we are provided once it's in the door.”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm sure you'll be able to provide much more color commentary than I will on this item. It was a harried session, but they got to a budget for 2627 and we did well, we have a 1M dollars to continue our acquisition and renovation efforts for disabled adults and seniors experiencing homelessness. A property has not yet been identified. We were awarded 275 dollars. thousand dollars thousand dollars for bridge for bridge housing and services this is a project that's currently ongoing at the salvation army specialized outreach funding an amount of ninety thousand dollars we…”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“Yes. Extreme heat is underway. Uh, we have protocols and policy approved by this board for when he takes effect. Our first heat advisory was on June 19th and we've had probably six, seven, eight days of heat since then, where the heat index is 105 for two or more hours. And in some cases, 110 for two or more hours. We've received very generous donations of water from Valamo and No Days Off. I know 7-Eleven is also preparing to send us water. We're grateful for those. We provide those supplies together with supplies provided to us by Derm, which include cooling towels, electrolytes, sunscreen.…”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“Mr. Chair, we've shared with the board the unsheltered numbers, but have not shared the total homeless numbers, both sheltered and unsheltered. So we did see in the January count an increase of 33 people or 1% in total homelessness. But as you know, in unsheltered homelessness, we reported this before, we saw a 38% increase. And in sheltered settings and other temporary settings, we saw a decrease of 293 individuals. So our net is 1%. Obviously, unsheltered is an emphasis of ours. Um, we do not think there's been a tremendous surge as we said before in unsheltered homelessness. We think the…”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. August 27th is our summer census.”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“This is good news, Mr. Chair. Finally. I'm glad to talk about this. So when we received the Bezos $5 million grant, we decided to rethink how we deal with family homelessness. And we work with our private sector partner, Chapman Partnership, and we sort of made them point on all families entering the system. so that they could do an assessment on families, try to divert or prevent homelessness whenever possible. They're also working closely with Hermanos de la Calle, who's done tremendous work on families. So we took a look at... You can see on the back page of the item how we're doing. The…”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“This item was deferred from the last meeting, Mr. Chair. These are just reports on three cold weather activities. I won't go into them in detail since we are now in heat season.”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“Thank you, Ms. Chair. On the economic indicator, national unemployment is at 4.3%, state unemployment at 4.8%, and locally 3.1%. Department of Labor reports in Miami-Dade 44,689 people out of work. The homeless helpline in the months of March and April received more than 11,000 calls. 5,500 of those were for persons at risk of homelessness and 2,700 people homeless in Miami-Dade County. And now I'll move on to the executive director's report. Thank you, Lisa. Please join us if you can, board, when we have our Hideaway Bay event. Our summer census, as I said, is on the 27th. We did host tours…”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“You are correct, Mr. Chairman. I know how you like to hear this. Month over month for May, up 15.62%. Collections for May were 4.3. To date, collections, 33.1 million. Any other questions? Thank you, Mr. Chair.”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026
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“Thank you so much. I did hear about that incident and I, I appreciate all that was done by the commissioner as well as the outreach teams. And I believe, uh, building management though. Thank you, Mr. Chair, man, you are.”
Homeless Trust Board · Jun 26, 2026