HUD No. 02-716ILE Anne Scherrieb (312) 353-6236 ext. 2666 |
For
Release Tuesday July 16, 2002 |
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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