Tuesday, March 9, 2010

FHOP TRACKING SPREADSHEET





The Florida Housing Coalition has updated its SHIP spreadsheet to assist you with tracking FHOP funds. TRAKFHOP is available on the Coalition’s website at this link:
www.flhousing.org/sites/default/files/TRAKFHOP May 2010.xls

TRAKFHOP closely resembles the SHIP tracking spreadsheet, with a summary page and Forms 1, 2 and 3. Throughout the spreadsheet, however, color coded cells indicate where FHOP-specific data is included:
• Most notably, the bottom half of the Summary Page now includes a blue box reporting the amount of FHOP expended funds per income category, including 121-140% AMI and ‘Above 140%’.
• Form 1 contains new columns to track FHOP buyers above the Moderate category and to track the date FHOP is repaid. It also includes a column for reporting the household’s income, as reported on the tax return.
• The “Date of Purchase” has been added alongside ‘Sales Price or Value’ on Form 3.
• Finally, the revenue section of the Summary page distinguishes between FHOP repayments and other types of Program Income.

TRAKFHOP has also been updated to reflect a SHIP change from Senate Bill 360 permitting a jurisdiction to adopt strategies that assist households between 121-140% of the area median income (AMI). The ability to separately track these households has been added for the first three strategies on TRAKFHOP. If a jurisdiction opts to assist households at 121-140% of AMI, these recipients will be considered part of the moderate income category. For this reason, the Summary Page counts the units and assistance expended on households at 121-140% AMI alongside all other Moderate data in columns M and N.

To avoid accidental deletion of formulas, TRAKFHOP is protected. The password to unprotect the spreadsheet remains the same: the word ship in lower case letters. If you have questions about the tracking sheet or have discovered an overlooked formula error, contact Michael Chaney at chaney@flhousing.org.

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