Specifications include, but are not limited to: A. PROPERTY ENGAGER RESPONSIBILITIES - Property Engager will: ● Find available, affordable (< or = to Fair Market Rent) apartment units for clients of Homeless Social Service Providers; ● Become familiar with all rental assistance programs available to homeless persons in Middlesex County in order to explain them to prospective landlords; ● Provide guidance/assistance to landlords unfamiliar with PHA and social service agency forms and processes; ● Enroll landlords with the following qualifications into the Program: 1. Have units in Middlesex County 2. A viable tax ID 3. Be willing to comply with ▪ Property Standards required by local jurisdictions and any housing subsidy program ▪ Fair Market Rent (https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.html) ▪ Fair Housing Laws (https://nj.gov/dca/home/fairhousing/act.html) and ▪ Housing First philosophy ● Be familiar with HUD’s NSPIRE (formerly Housing Quality Standards) and ensure that units being referred to clients with a voucher or subsidy are in compliance will meet those program’s property standards. ● Using Padmission©, or a similar software, to maintain a database of all landlords and their affordable housing units that can be updated to show current vacancies; the database shall be the intellectual property of the County alone and solely the County shall retain all rights to it after the termination of this contract; ● Collaborate with the Housing Placement Liaison to use any Landlord Incentive Funds should they be made available and keep an accurate and complete accounting of all monies spent from the Funds. ● Coordinate with the MCHC3 to plan and facilitate regular landlord appreciation events and landlord focused resource development. B. PROPERTY ENGAGER DUTIES - ● Convene the Agency Case Managers of the Homeless Social Service Providers to: (i) explain services; (ii) agree on a method to establish a baseline of landlords, property managers, etc. that currently cooperate with the MCHC3. ● Assess the state of Middlesex County’s housing market and regularly review market research on the housing market; ● Conduct survey of Middlesex County rental property owners and/or managers to determine their issues of concern about renting to homeless clients, e.g., non or slow payment of rent; tenant behavior, damage, etc.; ● Create a marketing strategy and implementation plan to increase the number of landlords in the network; ● Scan housing search websites for available affordable housing and market rate rentals that are within Fair Market Rent guidelines; be ready to negotiate if necessary...