Landlord Incentive Pilot Project (LIPP)

The overall goal of LIPP is to measure the impact of risk mitigation and housing stability tools upon the recruitment and sustained engagement of landlords and property managers, and to evaluate such tools for their relative importance and future usage within the work of localities and the state. Specifically, the project seeks to enhance four pilot communities to:

• Work with landlords to initially engage in providing housing for the homeless
• Encourage and assist landlords to work with tenants as problems and issues arise
• Recognize landlords for successful stability in housing

LIPP participating entities shall be required to document attempts to outreach and engage local homeless Veteran service providers to join the project. Such providers include but are not limited to Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF); Housing and Urban Development/Veteran Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD/VASH); Grant Per Diem (GPD), and; local Veteran Service Officers.

For LIPP participants, a Veteran is any person who served on active duty in the armed forces, regardless of how long they served or the type of discharge they received. LIPP participants shall use the HUD definition of Categories 1 & 4 of homelessness as an individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence or is fleeing, or attempting to flee, domestic violence. 

The four pilot communities were selected to implement the project based on homeless veteran Point-In-Time count data and the capacity to implement the pilot project. The four communities are: Asheville, Charlotte, Durham, and Wilmington. 

Each community has a designated LIPP entity agency that spearheads the project. To get connected to your local LIPP project, please contact NCCEH staff. 

NCCEH and LIPP pilot communities submit quarterly reports with program updates to the Operation Home Taskforce. 

LIPP entities and their designated partner agencies can access paperwork and policies by following this link to a password-protected webpage. If you do not have a login and password, please contact NCCEH staff.