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News Alert: HUD Announces $140 Million in Homeless Assistance Grants
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced $140 million in grant funding for nearly 900 homeless assistance programs. This round of funding completes the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, adding to the $1.6 billion in renewal grants that Secretary Donovan announced in April. The funding will go, in part, to permanent housing and transitional housing renewal projects for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. The funding will also go to permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals and rapid re-housing for families with children.
The funding comes during a year when HUD, in order to implement the required 5 percent cut under sequestration, asked CoCs to make hard budgetary decisions about what programs to prioritize for funding during the FY2013 CoC Program Competition. Consequently, more than 300 otherwise eligible project applications were not awarded funding.
"Communities all across the country are changing their approach to reducing homelessness and now is not the time to retreat from doing what we know works," said Secretary Donovan. "Investing in proven strategies such as Rapid Re-housing and Housing First help to break the cycle of homelessness as we've known it in these communities."
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