HUD Archives: News Releases


Bonnie Byrom Dixon
(404) 331-5001 ext. 2013
For Release
Thursday
January 12, 2006

SAVANNAH/CHATHAM COUNTY, GEORGIA RECEIVES OVER $2.6 MILLION IN GRANTS TO HOUSE AND SERVE HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES

SAVANNAH - Today at an event with Savannah Mayor Otis Johnson held at the Homeless Authority Office, HUD Southeast Deputy Regional Director Pat Hoban-Moore presented checks for over $2.6 Million to six local Homeless Providers. Programs throughout the City will provide critically needed assistance to persons and families living
without a home of their own. These awards are part of a national announcement that thousands of local programs that house and serve homeless persons will receive $1.33 billion in funding made on December 20, 2005 by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson. Included in the national announcement was $25 Million for the State of Georgia announced on January 4, 2006 by Regional Director Bob Young at a ceremony held at the Georgia State Capitol.

"Today, we take another step along the road toward that day when we end chronic homelessness on our streets," said Young. "The funding we announce today will help provide homes and vital services to those who need them most�persons and families who deserve a place they can call home."

HUD's funding is provided in two ways:

  • HUD's Continuum of Care programs provide permanent and transitional housing to homeless persons. In
    addition, Continuum grants fund important services including job training, health care, mental health
    counseling, substance abuse treatment and child care.

  • Emergency Shelter Grants convert buildings into homeless shelters, assist in the operation of local shelters
    and fund related social service and homeless prevention programs.

Combined, HUD's Continuum of Care and Emergency Shelter Grant programs will provide critically needed funding to nearly 5,000 local programs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For a more detailed local summary of the funding announced today, visit HUD's website.

Over $25 million in Continuum of Care grants and Emergency Shelter grants is awarded competitively to Georgia programs to meet the needs of their homeless clients. Continuum grants fund a wide variety of programs-from street outreach and assessment programs to transitional and permanent housing for homeless persons and families.

Emergency Shelter Grants are allocated based on a formula to state and local governments to create, improve and operate emergency shelters for homeless persons. These funds may also support essential services including job training, health care, drug/alcohol treatment, child-care and homelessness prevention activities. By helping to
support emergency shelter, transitional housing and needed support services, Emergency Shelter Grants are
designed to move homeless persons away from a life on the street toward permanent housing.

The Goal to End Chronic Homelessness

For nearly five years, HUD has increasingly emphasized the Bush Administration's goal of ending chronic
homelessness in its assistance programs. Research indicates that approximately 10 percent of all homeless persons experience long-term or chronic homelessness. These studies also find that this hardest-to-serve population utilizes over half of all emergency shelter resources designed to assist homeless individuals and families. By shifting the federal emphasis toward meeting the needs of the most vulnerable homeless persons, more resources become available for those who experience homelessness as a temporary condition. To learn more about chronic homelessness, visit the CPD's Chronic Homelessness webpage.

HUD is the nation's housing agency committed to increasing homeownership, particularly among minorities; creating affordable housing opportunities for low-income Americans; and supporting the homeless, elderly, people with disabilities and people living with AIDS. The Department also promotes economic and community development as
well as enforces the nation's fair housing laws. More information about HUD and its programs is available on the Internet and the Spanish website.

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FISCAL YEAR 2005
CONTINUUM OF CARE COMPETITION
HOMELESS ASSISTANCE AWARDS REPORT WITH ESG

STATE COC Number      
Sponsor Name COC Name Program Amount
Georgia      
GA05-500 Atlanta/DeKalb, Fulton Counties CoC
Our Common Welfare, Incorporated   SHPR $158,033
Buckhead Christian Ministry   SHPR $80,000
Mary Hall Freedom House, Inc.   SHPR $285,341
Decatur Cooperative Ministry, Inc.   SHPR $44,243
Phoenix Alliance, Inc.   SHPR $58,371
St. Jude's Recovery Center, Inc.   SHPR $715,311
Nicholas House, Inc.   SHPR $36,141
Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services, Inc.   SHPR $36,823
St. Jude's Recovery Center, Inc.   SHPR $278,342
Project Community Connections, Inc.   SHPR $563,246
Housing Initiative of North Fulton   SHPR $23,646
St. Jude's Recovery Center, Inc.   SHPR $70,445
Travelers Aid of Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc.   SHPR $154,298
Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless   SHPR $338,100
Atlanta Enterprise Center, Inc.   SHPR $190,955
Initiative for Affordable Housing, Inc.   SHPR $320,938
Action Ministries, Inc.   SHPR $70,000
Jerusalem House   SHPR $193,704
Georgia Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, Inc.   SHPR $294,000
Genesis Shelter, Inc.   SHPR $136,500
The Young Adult Guidance Center, Inc.   SHPR $154,396
Alternate Life Paths Program, Inc.   SHPR $48,572
Community Advanced Practice Nurses, Inc.   SHPR $39,039
Community Advanced Practice Nurses, Inc.   SHPR $46,423
Fulton County Board of Commissioners   SHPR $686,487
Fulton County Board of Commissioners   SHPR $373,951
Samaritan House of Atlanta, Inc.   SHPR $73,255
Our House, Inc.   SHPR $47,235
Community Advanced Practice Nurses, Inc.   SHPR $18,517
Jewish Family & Career Services, Inc.   SHPR $157,729
Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta   SHPR $70,010
Families First, Inc.   SHPR $165,824
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPCR $162,480
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPCR $304,800
    Total: $6,397,155
GA05-501 Georgia Balance of State CoC
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPC $1,138,080
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPC $272,640
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SHPR $588,000
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPC $571,380
New Horizons CSB   SHPR $45,122
Action Ministries, Inc.   SHP $62,115
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPC $297,720
Goodwill Industries of Middle Georgia, Inc.   SHPR $148,067
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPC $440,340
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPC $615,840
Action Ministries, Inc.   SHP $211,278
Goodwill Industries of Middle Georgia, Inc.   SHPR $110,310
Loaves and Fishes Ministry of Macon, Inc.   SHPR $23,230
Gwinnett Housing Resource Partnership, Inc.   SHPR $73,448
Citizens Against Violence, Inc.   SHPR $265,764
Action Ministries, Inc.   SHPR $481,632
Gwinnett Housing Resource Partnership, Inc.   SHPR $146,895
Travelers Aid of Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc.   SHPR $55,847
Advantage Behavioral Health Systems   SHPR $166,591
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPC $833,640
Travelers Aid of Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc   SHPR $55,630
Loaves and Fishes Ministry of Macon, Inc.   SHPR $74,199
Calvary Refuge, Inc.   SHPR $203,326
HODAC, Inc.   SHPR $42,891
Douglas County Continuum of Care Coalition, Inc.   SHP $452,679
Lowndes Associated Ministries to People, Inc.   SHPR $140,924
Macon-Bibb E.O.C., Inc.   SHPR $99,750
Macon-Bibb E.O.C., Inc.   SHPR $94,500
Maranatha Outreach, Inc,   SHPR $60,178
House of Grace   SHPR $129,529
S.H.A.R.E. House, Inc.   SHPR $126,526
Lowndes Associated Ministries to People, Inc   SHPR $145,917
Rainbow Village Inc.   SHP $451,789
Circle of Hope   SHP $182,142
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPCR $27,480
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPCR $91,224
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPCR $160,464
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPCR $46,092
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPCR $52,596
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPCR $157,044
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPCR $52,596
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPCR $74,088
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPCR $90,504
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPCR $153,900
    Total: $9,713,907
GA05-503 Athens/Clarke County CoC
Athens Area Homeless Shelter   SHPR $211,982
Advantage Behavioral Health Systems   SHPR $45,684
    Total: $257,666
GA05-504 Augusta CoC
Hope House Expansion of Services   SHPR $58,842
CSRA Economic Opportunity Authority, Inc.   SHPR $119,081
Augusta Task Force for the Homeless   SHPR $67,517
Augusta Task Force for the Homeless, Inc.   SHPR $113,510
Goodwill Industries of Middle Georgia, Inc.   SHPR $90,024
    Total: $448,974
GA05-505 Columbus-Muscogee/Russell County CoC
Open Door Community House, Inc.   SHPR $267,745
House of T.I.M.E., Inc.   SHPR $134,343
House of T.I.M.E., Inc.   SHPR $212,736
Columbus Continuum of Care   SHPR $285,620
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPCR $55,044
Georgia Housing and Finance Authority   SPCR $39,456
    Total: $994,944
GA05-506 Marietta/Cobb County CoC
Marietta Housing Authority   SPC $220,500
The Center for Family Resources   SHPR $441,009
The Center for Family Resources   SHPR $191,202
The Center for Family Resources   SHPR $85,323
The Extension, Inc.   SHPR $104,654
The Center for Family Resources   SHPR $96,700
Cobb County Community Services Board   SHP $105,000
Zion Keepers, Inc.   SHP $100,093
Marietta Housing Authority   SPCR $212,676
    Total: $1,557,157
GA05-507 Savannah/Chatham County CoC
Union Mission, Inc   SHPR $166,437
Chatham-Savannah Authority for the Homeless   SHPR $223,469
Union Ministires   SHPR $218,876
Economic Opportunity for Savannah-Chatham County Area, Inc.     $220,500
Greenbriar Children's Center, Inc.   SHPR $398,424
Chatham-Savannah Authority for the Homeless   SHPR $179,256
CITY OF SAVANNAH   SPCR $253,836
Housing Authority of Savannah   SPCR $940,200
    Total: $2,600,998
    State Total:   $21,970,801
Emergency Shelter Grants Allocations:      
ATLANTA     $414,976
AUGUSTA     $101,189
CLAYTON COUNTY     $92,263
COBB COUNTY     $143,760
COLUMBUS-MUSCOGEE     $80,351
DE KALB COUNTY     $252,726
FULTON COUNTY     $115,113
GA NONENTITLEMENT     $2,099,824
GWINNETT COUNTY     $179,337
SAVANNAH     $121,948
Total ESG:     $3,601,487*
TOTAL STATE FUNDING:     $25,572,288

* This amount may be reduced by future rescission.

 

 
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