HUD No. GFO-12-03 Susan Campbell (336) 547-4000 |
For
Release Tuesday March 13, 2012 |
HUD AWARDS $6 MILLION FOR NORTH CAROLINA HOMELESS PROGRAMS
Funding to support 22 local programs
GREENSBORO - U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan today awarded nearly $6 million to support 22 new local homeless programs in North Carolina. This funding provides critically needed emergency shelter, transitional housing and permanent support for individuals and families and is a significant part of the Obama Administration's strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness.
The grants announced today will support new local programs never before funded by HUD. View a complete list of all the state and local projects awarded funding today on HUD's website.
"Today's grantees will join other local programs that are on the front lines of helping those who might otherwise be living on our streets," said HUD Region IV Ed Jennings, Jr. "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."
HUD's Continuum of Care grants provide permanent and transitional housing to homeless persons as well as services including job training, health care, mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment and child care. Continuum of Care grants are awarded competitively to local programs to meet the needs of their homeless clients. These grants fund a wide variety of programs from street outreach and assessment programs to transitional and permanent housing for homeless persons and families. Continuum of Care programs include:
- Supportive Housing Program (SHP) offers housing and supportive services to allow homeless persons to live as independently as possible.
- Shelter Plus Care (S+C) provides housing and supportive services on a long-term basis for homeless persons with disabilities, (primarily those with serious mental illness, chronic problems with alcohol and/or drugs, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or related diseases) and their families who were living in places not intended for human habitation (e.g., streets) or in emergency shelters.
In 2010, President Obama and 19 federal agencies and offices that form the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) launched the nation's first comprehensive strategy to prevent and end homelessness. Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness (www.usich.gov/opening_doors/) puts the country on a path to end veterans and chronic homelessness by 2015 and to ending homelessness among children, family, and youth by 2020.
In addition to HUD's annual grant awards, HUD continues to manage the $1.5 billion Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing (HPRP) Program. Made possible through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, this three-year grant program is intended to prevent persons from falling into homelessness or to rapidly re-house them if they do. To date, more than 1.2 million persons have been assisted through HPRP.
Community | Organization | Type of Grant |
Amount of Award |
Asheville | Homeward Bound of Asheville, Inc./Pathways to Permanent Housing 4 | SHP |
$46,629 |
Chapel Hill | University of NC at Chapel Hill/UNC XDS Leasing Project 3 | SHP |
$18,900 |
Chapel Hill | University of NC at Chapel Hill/UNC XDS Support Services Project 1 | SHP |
$36,225 |
Charlotte | Community Link, Programs of Travelers Aid/PRCoC Permanent Supportive Casework & Housing FY 11 | SHP |
$343,686 |
Charlotte | St. Peter's Homes, Inc./333 Hawthorne Lane - Permanent Housing Bonus | SHP |
$262,311 |
Concord | Piedmont Behavioral Healthcare/PBH 2011 Shelter Plus Care Program | S+C |
$783,360 |
Durham | Development Ventures Incorporated/Goley Point | SHP |
$368,073 |
Durham | Housing for New Hope, Inc./Streets to Home | SHP |
$106,001 |
Fayetteville | Cumberland County, NC/Safe Homes for New Beginnings | SHP |
$49,231 |
Gastonia | As One Ministries, Inc./As One Ministries, Inc. Housing First 3 | SHP |
$56,322 |
Gastonia | With Friends, Inc./Supportive Housing Program | SHP |
$22,545 |
Goldsboro | Eastpointe Human Services/Shelter Plus Care III | S+C |
$1,006,920 |
Greenville | Housing Authority of City of Greenville/Project HOPE | S+C |
$825,540 |
Greenville | The Greenville Community Shelters, Inc./SHP-PH Project Stable Solutions | SHP |
$113,618 |
Henderson | Five County Mental Health Authority/FCMHA SPC New 2011 | S+C |
$304,420 |
Lenoir | Smoky Mountain Center/SMC Project Connect 2011 | S+C |
$713,580 |
Raleigh | Community Alternatives for Supportive Abodes/Sunnybrook Phase 2 | SHP |
$118,600 |
Raleigh | Community Alternatives for Supportive Abodes/Sunnybrook Phase 2 PHB | SHP |
$217,113 |
Raleigh | Wake County Human Services/Shelter Plus Care 2011 | S+C |
$209,220 |
Rocky Mount | The Beacon Center/The Beacon Center Shelter Plus Care New | S+C |
$189,360 |
Wilmington | Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington, Inc./Ashley Center Permanent Housing | SHP |
$45,482 |
Winston-Salem | City of Winston-Salem/Project PATHS II | SHP |
$43,975 |
Total | $5,943,071 |
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