1. (a) Contract Award Funding Limits. The funding will be established by Allocation Formula as described in this section.
2. (b) HHSP funds will be awarded upon appropriation from the legislature, and will be made available to any of those municipalities subject to the requirements of this rule and be distributed in accordance with the formula set forth in subsection (c) of this section relating to Formula.

3. (c) Formula. Any funds made available for HHSP shall be distributed in accordance with an Allocation Formula that is calculated each year that takes into account the proportion of the following factors:

   1. (1) population of the municipality, as determined by the most recent available 1 Year American Community Survey ("ACS") data;
   2. (2) poverty, defined as persons in the municipality's population with incomes at or below the poverty threshold, as determined by the most recent available 1 Year ACS data;
   3. (3) population of Homeless persons, as determined by the most recent publicly available Point-In-Time Counts submitted to HUD by the CoCs in Texas or by the Texas Homeless Network;
   4. (4) population of Homeless veterans, as determined by the most recent publicly available Point-In-Time Counts submitted to HUD by the CoCs in Texas or by the Texas Homeless Network;
   5. (5) population of Homeless Unaccompanied Youth, Parenting Youth, and Children of Parenting Youth, as determined by the most recent publicly available Point-In-Time Counts submitted to HUD by the CoCs in Texas or by the Texas Homeless Network;
   6. (6) population of persons with disabilities, defined as that percentage of the municipality's population composed of persons with disabilities, as determined by the most recent available 1 Year ACS data; and
   7. (7) Incidents of family violence, as determined by reports from local police departments.

4. (d) The factors enumerated shall be used to calculate distribution percentages for each municipal area based on the following formula:

   1. (1) Thirty percent weight for population;
   2. (2) Thirty percent weight for poverty populations;
   3. (3) Twenty percent weight for the Homeless population;
   4. (4) Five percent weight for population of Homeless Veterans;
   5. (5) Five percent weight for population of Homeless Unaccompanied Youth, Parenting Youth, and Children of Parenting Youth;
   6. (6) Five percent weight for population of persons with disabilities; and
   7. (7) Five percent weight for instances of family violence.

Source Note:The provisions of this §7.23 adopted to be effective July 22, 2018, 43 TexReg 4730.