Processing HOME Multi Address Activities in IDIS

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IDIS can now accept up to 1000 addresses for a HOME Rental, Homebuyer or Homeowner Rehab activity. Although the system allows you to enter this many addresses, the activity must meet the HOME definition of a project in order to enter information in IDIS as a multi address activity. Project means a site or sites together with any building (including a manufactured housing unit) or buildings located on the site(s) that are under common ownership, management, and financing and are to be assisted with HOME funds as a single undertaking. The project includes all the activities associated with the site and building. For TBRA, project means assistance to one or more families. The multi address functionality should not to be used to set up one IDIS activity for an entire HOME program.

When an activity meets the definition of a HOME project and you need to process the activity as a multi address activity, you must also watch the following:

1. Information must be entered correctly in IDIS to be able to change the status code to complete. The HOME Activity Summary Screen at the end of the completion screens shows discrepancies but not the address location of the discrepancy. If you make a mistake inputting information, you would have to look at the cost and beneficiary screens for every address to find the error.



2. HOME performance is reported on "completed" HOME activities. To complete an activity, you must report the cost and beneficiary information for each household assisted with HOME funds. The more addresses that are part of an activity, the longer it will take to complete the activity.



3. The period of affordability starts at project completion. A project is not considered complete until the completion information is entered into IDIS. For both open rental and homebuyer projects, this means that the affordability period has not formally begun. Enforcement and monitoring of the HOME requirements becomes problematic if the beginning of the affordability period cannot be correctly determined.



4. Information entered into IDIS must to be consistent with the written agreement between the PJ, its state recipients and subrecipients.

The technical assistance unit can provide step-by-step instructions on how to process HOME activities in IDIS.