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Toledo Lucas County awarded $4,154,022 from HUD 2011 Continuum
of Care Competition for renewal projects
December, 2011: All twenty-four projects, recommended and
submitted to HUD by the Toledo Lucas County Homelessness
Board were renewed. The projects are administered by eleven
agencies and provide homeless individuals and families with a
wide range of services to assist them achieve and maintain
permanent housing. These include: Transitional Housing;
Permanent Supportive Housing; Support Services; Leasing Subsidy;
Outreach; and, Medical Transport. In addition, these dollars
employ fifty people and provide rental income to over 150
landlords.
Deb Conklin, executive director of
TLCHB notes, “To say these funds are vitally needed is an
understatement. Agencies stretch the funds as far as they can to
provide safe and stable services and housing to as many homeless
households as possible.
“These
funds are also helping us respond to the new face of
homelessness, those family households once adequately employed,
former home-owners in some cases, who have very limited, if any,
resources and continue to find themselves unable to secure
affordable housing and at the bottom of the pile for
employment.”
U.S.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan
announced $1.5 billion to more than 7,100 local homeless
assistance programs operating in the coming year. The funding
supports the Obama Administration’s Opening Doors
strategy to prevent and end homelessness.
The
funding announced is $62 million more than last year, the most
homeless assistance ever awarded by the Department. HUD is
renewing funding through its Continuum of Care programs
to existing local programs as quickly as possible to prevent any
interruption in federal assistance and will award funds to new
projects in early 2012.
“The
grants we’re awarding today will literally keep the doors of our
shelters open and will help those on the front lines of ending
homelessness do what they do best,” said Donovan. “It’s
incredible that as we work to recover from the greatest economic
decline since the Great Depression, the total number of homeless
Americans is declining, in large part because of these funds.”
For
more information on HUD’s efforts to assist communities with
preventing, reducing and ending homelessness visit
www.hudhre.info
Toledo Lucas County Continuum of Care
FY 2011 HUD-SHP CoC Grant Awards
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