HUD No. 12-13 Adam Glantz (212) 264-1100 |
For
Release Tuesday March 13, 2012 |
HUD AWARDS NEW YORK STATE OVER $16 MILLION TO FUND 49 NEW LOCAL HOMELESS PROGRAMS
Programs in Syracuse, Buffalo, Albany, Rochester, NYC & Westchester Receive funding
NEW YORK - U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan today awarded New York State over $16 million to support 49 new local homeless programs across the state. The 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 monies are part of $201 million awarded nationwide to 731 programs. (A listing of New York State grantees is below.)
HUD recently awarded $1.47 billion to renew funding to more than 7,100 existing local homeless programs operating across the U.S. That funding ensured housing and service programs remained operating in 2012. The grants announced today will support new local programs never before funded by HUD.
"Today's grantees will join the tens of thousands of local programs that are on the front lines of helping those who might otherwise be living on our streets," 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."
According to the latest data reported by more than 3,000 cities and counties throughout the U.S., homelessness declined 2.1 percent between 2010 and 2011 and a remarkable 12 percent among homeless veterans.
HUD grants include $15.7 million to support 103 new housing and service programs located in rural communities. Funding to these never-before-funded programs in less populated areas continues HUD's efforts to confront rural homelessness. HUD is delivering record funding to meet the unique challenges homeless individuals and families living in rural areas face.
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.
- Single-Room Occupancy Program (SRO) provides rental assistance for homeless persons in one-person housing units that contain small kitchens, bathrooms, or both.
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 end 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.
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City | Project | Grant Type |
Amount |
New York | Common Ground Community IV / Rochester Dewey Avenue | SHP |
$359,100 |
Rochester | Housing Council in the Monroe County Area Inc. / Permanent Housing Placement Program | SHP |
$167,250 |
Rochester | Legal Assistance of Western New York , Inc. / Resolving Credit Issues | SHP |
$47,250 |
Albany | NYS OFFICE OF Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services / Providence House new project SPC 3 | S+C |
$616,500 |
Rochester | Recovery Houses of Rochester, Inc. / Wilbur Street Homeless Supportive Housing Program | SHP |
$44,452 |
Rochester | Rochester Housing Authority / SHelter Plus Care PB Andrews Hall | S+C |
$470,880 |
Rochester | Rochester Housing Authority / Shelter Plus Care PB Frederick Douglass | S+C |
$149,400 |
Rochester | Spiritus Christi Prison Outreach, Inc. / Federick Douglass Apartments | SHP |
$46,444 |
Rochester | Tempro Development co. Inc. / Andrews Hall | SHP |
$81,774 |
Elmira | Catholic Charities of Chemung/Schuyler / Permanent Housing Project | SHP |
$108,130 |
Geneseo | Chances and Changes, Inc. / SHP - Permanent Housing - Livingston County | SHP |
$119,461 |
Bath | Steuben Churchpeople Against Poverty, Inc / Livingston Supportive Housing | SHP |
$136,945 |
Auburn | Cayuga/Seneca Community Action Agency, Inc. / 2011 Permanent Housing Bonus Project | SHP |
$34,639 |
Albany | Homeless and Travelers Aid Society of the Capital District, Inc. / Family Pathways III Project | SHP |
$149,000 |
Albany | Interfaith Partnership for the Homeless / Sheridan Ave Housing Project II | SHP |
$80,000 |
Syracuse | Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse / PHH: Housing First for Individuals and Families | SHP |
$451,589 |
Schenectady | Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. / PHP 2011 New Project | SHP |
$149,780 |
Buffalo | Alcohol and Drug Dependency Services, Inc. / Young Adult Permanent Housing | SHP |
$760,889 |
Buffalo | Polish Community Center of Buffalo / Hope Gardens Housing First | SHP |
$1,677,863 |
Binghamton | Fairview Recovery Services ,Inc / HMIS II | SHP |
$16,178 |
Troy | Joseph's House and Shelter, Inc. / Bethune Program | SHP |
$129,500 |
Geneva | Geneva Housing Authority / Finger Lakes Regional S+C II | S+C |
$240,660 |
Geneva | Geneva Housing Authority / S+C for the Chronically Homeless II | S+C |
$62,040 |
Syracuse | Central New York Services, Inc. / Supportive Living Program 2 Oneida County | SHP |
$196,518 |
Utica | Family Nurturing Center of Central New York Inc. / Evelyn's House Expansion | SHP |
$19,250 |
Clark Mills | John Bosco House, Inc. / John Bosco House - NY 518 CoC | SHP |
$20,000 |
Hudson | The Mental Health Association of Columbia-Greene Counties / Permanent SHP for Homeless Mentally Ill, and Family | SHP |
$64,690 |
Hudson | The Mental Health Association of Columbia-Greene Counties / Permanent SHP for Homeless, Mentally Ill 2 | SHP |
$30,768 |
Albany | Corporation for AIDS Research, Education and Services, Inc. / Points North Portion of the Capital Region HMIS | SHP |
$26,250 |
Watertown | Mental Health Association in Jefferson County Inc. / Peer Run Housing First | SHP |
$76,600 |
Watertown | North Country Transitional Living Services / Scattered Site Leasing Model | SHP |
$397,801 |
Glens Falls | City of Glens Falls Housing Authority / Community - Families | S+C |
$80,040 |
New York | City of New York Acting by and through its Department of Housing Preservation and Development / Lindenguild Hall | S+C |
$2,129,400 |
New York | City of New York Acting by and through its Department of Housing Preservation and Development / St. Louis Hall | S+C |
$3,938,280 |
New York | Urban Pathways, Inc. / Cluster House | SHP |
$160,886 |
Poughkeepsie | Hudson River Housing, Inc. / HRH Garden Street Housing | SHP |
$48,852 |
Middletown | Emergency Housing Group, Inc. / Permanent Housing Bonus Money | SHP |
$60,315 |
Huntington | Family Service League, Inc. / Suffolk HOPE III 2011 | SHP |
$345,079 |
East Hampton | Retreat, Inc. / Homes, Hope and Supportive Services for Survivors of Domestic Violence | SHP |
$95,592 |
Mount Vernon | City of Mount Vernon (NY) / CMV Rent Subsidy | SHP |
$178,338 |
White Plains | Grace Church Community Center, Inc. / Another Way Home | SHP |
$127,949 |
New Rochelle | HOPE Community Services, Inc. / CNR Rehousing Initiative | SHP |
$233,799 |
Yonkers | The Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers / Road To Housing | SHP |
$326,685 |
White Plains | Westchester County Dept. of Social Services / First Steps | SHP |
$655,593 |
White Plains | Westchester County Dept. of Social Services / Homestead 03 | SHP |
$113,330 |
White Plains | Westchester County Dept. of Social Services / TH for Young Adults | SHP |
$323,748 |
Spring Valley | Rockland County, New York / Community Development PH 2011 | SHP |
$445,796 |
Spring Valley | Rockland County, New York / Community Development PH 2011 (2) | SHP |
$110,310 |
Kingston | Family of Woodstock, Inc. / HUD SHP Families #2 | SHP |
$60,766 |
New York Total | $16,366,359 |