HUD Archives: News Releases


HUD No. 15-006
Shantae Goodloe
(202) 708-0685
For Release
Monday
January 26, 2015

HUD AWARDS $1.8 BILLION FOR LOCAL HOMELESS PROGRAMS
Funding supports goal to prevent and end homelessness

WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro today awarded $1.8 billion in grants to help nearly 8,400 local homeless housing and service programs across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands (see attached chart). The Continuum of Care grants announced today support the Administration's efforts to end homelessness by providing critically needed housing and support services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness across the country.

In addition to renewing funding to thousands of effective existing projects, HUD is funding 25 new projects that will provide permanent supportive housing to individuals and families experiencing chronic homelessness in areas with especially high need. These new projects were awarded as part of a special competition designed to help the Department make progress toward its goal of ending chronic homelessness. View a complete list of all the state and local homeless projects awarded funding on HUD's website.

"It's a national shame that anyone would call the streets their home," said Castro. "Working with our local partners, we're redoubling our efforts to support permanent housing solutions for our veterans and those experiencing long-term chronic homelessness. We're also focused on providing targeted assistance to families and young people who are falling between the cracks. As a nation, we can and must end homelessness."

"Communities across the country are driving progress by implementing the strategies that work to end homelessness—Housing First, permanent supportive housing, and rapid rehousing," said Matthew Doherty, Interim Executive Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. "The grants announced today are critical investments into these strategies, providing assistance to families and individuals so that they can remain in permanent housing or get back into permanent housing as quickly as possible and never experience the crisis of homelessness again."

The local programs supported by the grants announced today offer a variety of housing and services including transitional and permanent supportive housing, rapid re-housing, street outreach, client assessment, and other services. HUD is continuing to challenge local communities to reexamine their response to homelessness and give greater weight to proven strategies, including rapid re-housing for homeless families with children, permanent supportive housing for those experiencing chronic homelessness, and implementation of a Housing First approach.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of HUD and Secretary Castro is focused on advancing policies that create opportunity for all Americans. Ending homelessness is among HUD's, and the Obama Administration's, vision. 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 as well as to end homelessness among children, family, and youth.

HUD recently announced the 2014 estimate of the number of homeless persons in America. According to data from more than 3,000 cities and counties around the country, there were 578,424 persons experiencing homelessness on a single night in 2014. Since 2010, local communities around the country reported a10 percent decline in the total number of persons experiencing homelessness and a remarkable 25 percent drop in the number of those living on the streets. In addition, state and local planning agencies' counts reveal a 33 percent drop in homelessness among veterans, including a 43 percent reduction in unsheltered homelessness among veterans.

cross America, local homelessness planning agencies called 'Continuums of Care' are organizing volunteers at this time of year to help count the number of persons located in emergency shelters, transitional housing programs and living unsheltered on the streets. Continuums of Care will report these one-night 'point-in-time counts' later in the year and will form the basis of HUD's 2015 national homeless estimate.

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HUD's mission is to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all. More information about HUD and its programs is available on the Internet at www.hud.gov and http://espanol.hud.gov.

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State
# of Local Homeless Programs Funded
Total Funding
Alaska
28
 $ 3,676,398
Alabama
78
 $16,844,653
Arkansas
31
 $4,923,250
Arizona
120
 $39,258,830
California
1001
 $307,573,759
Colorado
91
 $25,814,762
Connecticut
166
 $39,109,836
District of Columbia
68
 $21,213,697
Delaware
26
 $6,745,030
Florida
380
 $84,255,169
Georgia
185
 $37,071,955
Guam
8
 $1,346,148
Hawaii
45
 $11,620,000
Iowa
55
 $8,346,433
Idaho
45
 $4,076,606
Illinois
448
 $100,101,004
Indiana
109
 $16,411,898
Kansas
61
 $9,158,715
Kentucky
104
 $19,006,587
Louisiana
182
 $31,585,302
Massachusetts
334
 $69,697,825
Maryland
237
 $48,362,263
Maine
38
 $10,408,035
Michigan
325
 $67,691,167
Minnesota
222
 $28,929,712
Missouri
133
 $29,676,813
Mississippi
40
 $5,527,884
Montana
23
 $2,648,499
North Carolina
184
 $21,174,515
North Dakota
23
 $2,173,491
Nebraska
53
 $7,652,645
New Hampshire
68
 $6,622,195
New Jersey
272
 $38,088,939
New Mexico
59
 $9,324,895
Nevada
51
 $14,798,196
New York
678
 $191,794,858
Ohio
332
 $88,254,349
Oklahoma
72
 $7,830,616
Oregon
135
 $26,694,306
Pennsylvania
568
 $92,425,789
Puerto Rico
71
 $19,301,084
Rhode Island
41
 $5,262,197
South Carolina
66
 $9,787,199
South Dakota
7
 $1,225,381
Tennessee
162
 $21,574,617
Texas
267
 $77,942,382
Utah
63
 $8,468,719
Virginia
171
 $26,943,739
Virgin Island
2
 $133,218
Vermont
26
 $3,731,788
Washington
217
 $48,190,412
Wisconsin
105
 $22,621,452
West Virginia
71
 $7,232,708
Wyoming
5
 $327,002
TOTAL
8352
 $1,810,658,922

 

 
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