BUSH ADMINISTRATION AWARDS $150,000 TO CATHOLIC URBAN
PROGRAMS TO EXPAND HOLY ANGELS SHELTER'S EMERGENCY AND TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAM

CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced that it is awarding $150,000
to Catholic Urban Programs in East St. Louis, Illinois. The funds will help expand Holy Angels Shelter which offers emergency and transitional housing to single women, women with children and intact families.

The grant funds are being awarded through a special Congressional appropriation under HUD's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. Catholic Urban Programs is a multi-service emergency assistance
agency that serves low-income families, unemployed persons, elderly persons, people with disabilities and homeless individuals and families in the western half of St. Clair County including East St. Louis and the surrounding communities.

Opened in 1985, Holy Angels Shelter has housed, for up to 12 weeks, over 3,100 individuals. Each head of
household develops a program that is overseen by the social worker and the shelter manager. The shelter manager oversees the emergency rent and deposit program that helps people to stay in their own home or to get them into homes after living in the shelter. The social worker follows up for six months after the family or individual leaves the shelter. If a family stays in permanent housing for those six month, the case is considered a success.

These funds will be used to subsidize the salaries and benefits of the Shelter manager and the social worker over
the next five years beginning in May 2002.

HUD is the nation's housing agency committed to increasing minority homeownership, creating affordable housing opportunities for low-income American's, supporting the homeless, elderly, people with disabilities and stimulating economic development and community revitalization across the nation. More information about HUD and its
programs is available on the Internet.

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