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The building includes 25 efficiency apartments, a safe-haven area with 15 semi-private spaces and 10 to 25 emergency shelter beds [2] The $7.9 million facility was completed on April 6, 2009. [3] It was developed by Preble Street and Avesta Housing [4] and received state and federal funding [5] as well as private contributions.
In an interview with The News Tribune, Hill said that historically federal funding for homeless programs and services has continued to increase as a trend, even from one administration to the next.
In April 2020, the Anchorage Assembly passed a resolution to more aggressively clear the city's homeless encampments. [10] The city began sweeping encampments along Chester Creek and downtown that month. [11] In June 2022, Anchorage cleared an encampment of 25 to 50 people in Davis Park, in the Mountain View neighborhood. [12]
Pierce County Executive Bruce Dammeier has declared a state of emergency to prevent a lapse in funding for a system that serves as the “front door” to the county’s homelessness response ...
The funding for it was called the "Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program" (HPRP), and was distributed using the formula for the Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG) program. [ 79 ] On May 20, 2009, President Obama signed the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act into Public Law (Public Law 111-22 or ...
Critics pointed out that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allocated $640.9 million this year in FEMA-administered funds to aid state and local governments coping with the influx of asylum ...
The homeless population is disproportionately African American; 2% of Mainers are Black, whereas 47% of homeless people in Maine are Black. 48% are White, lower than the state's 92% White figure; 0.5% are Asian/Pacific Islander compared to Maine being 1.5% Asian, and the Native American homeless population is roughly the same as the general ...
SLO County homeless service providers were able to expand the reach of their programs using CARES Act funding, but it’s almost gone. Emergency money for SLO County homeless services is about to ...