{"id":6282,"date":"2022-03-15T15:07:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T20:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nwfl4sale.com\/hud-gives-fla-114m-to-help-the-homeless\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T15:07:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T20:07:05","slug":"hud-gives-fla-114m-to-help-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nwfl4sale.com\/hud-gives-fla-114m-to-help-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"HUD Gives Fla. $114M to Help the Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. will spend $2.6B in the next fiscal year to end homelessness, with 328 Fla. agencies receiving anywhere from $10,000 to $3.2 million.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced over $2.6 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2021 Continuum of Care (CoC) Competition Awards for roughly 7,000 local homeless housing and service programs across the United States.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In Florida, 328 individual agencies across the state will receive $114,030,413. The grants are as small as $9,464 for one group in St. Johns County to $3,074,525 for a group in Miami-Dade County. HUD posted a list of all Florida-funded agencies<\/a> on its website.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The awards will allow communities to help individuals and families experiencing homelessness move into permanent housing with access to supportive services, with the overarching goal of long-term stability.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThese Continuum of Care program grants, coupled with the historic resources in the American Rescue Plan, will deliver communities the resources needed to ensure that every person in a respective community has the equitable opportunity to a safe and stable home,\u201d says HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The CoC program is designed to promote a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness \u2013 the largest source of federal grant funding for homeless services and housing programs. The 2021 awards include approximately $102 million for new domestic violence support projects.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n