Harrisburg, PA – Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Acting Secretary Neil Weaver contiguous announced $5.8 cardinal has been awarded to assistance stateless families find lodging and combat homelessness crossed the commonwealth. The backing is provided done the national Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) program.
“ESG backing provides section governments and non-profits crossed the commonwealth with the tools they request to assistance unlock captious lodging resources for their communities,” said Sec. Weaver. “The backing approved contiguous volition spell to trusted assemblage organizations to assistance individuals and families experiencing oregon facing homelessness.”
A full of $5,872,054 successful ESG backing was approved for 16 municipal grantees and six nonprofits who volition administer determination projects covering 26 counties.
The 2022 ESG backing eligibility falls into six categories: accelerated rehousing, homelessness prevention, thoroughfare outreach, exigency shelter, stateless absorption accusation systems (HMIS), and administration.
ESG backing is authorized by McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act arsenic amended by the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act of 2009.
Priority for backing is fixed to applicants representing areas of the commonwealth that bash not already person a nonstop allocation of Emergency Solutions Grant backing from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
A database of the approved projects is below:
Allegheny County $300,000
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
City of Allentown $252,113
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
- Street Outreach
- Emergency Shelter
Bucks County $114,125
- Rapid Rehousing
Butler County $368,935
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
Centre County $212,689
- Homelessness Prevention
- Emergency Shelter
Cumberland County $247,962
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
- Street Outreach
- Emergency Shelter
- HMIS
Dauphin County $209,270
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
- Street Outreach
- Emergency Shelter
- HMIS
Franklin County $220,987
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
- Street Outreach
- Emergency Shelter
- HMIS
Indiana County $79,887
- Rapid Rehousing
- HMIS
McKean County $155,264
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
- Street Outreach
- Emergency Shelter
- HMIS
Mercer County
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
- Emergency Shelter
Monroe County $409,812
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
- Street Outreach
- Emergency Shelter
Montgomery County $129,687
- Rapid Rehousing
City of Philadelphia $421,329
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
Schuylkill County $166,000
- Homelessness Prevention
- Street Outreach
- Emergency Shelter
Wayne County $95,647
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
- Street Outreach
- Emergency Shelter
- HMIS
Non-Profit Grantees (Regional Awards)
Blair Community Action Program $241,737
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
- Street Outreach
- HMIS
Center for Community Action $228,250
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
- HMIS
Central Susquehanna Opportunities $274,938
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
- Street Outreach
- Emergency Shelter
- HMIS
Clinton County Housing Coalition, Inc. $173,262
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
- Emergency Shelter
- HMIS
Lawrence County Social Services $1,324,558
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
- Street Outreach
- Emergency Shelter
- HMIS
Union-Snyder Community Action Agency $119,027
- Rapid Rehousing
- Homelessness Prevention
- Emergency Shelter
- HMIS
For much accusation astir the Wolf Administration’s committedness to assemblage and economical development, sojourn the DCED website, and beryllium definite to enactment up-to-date with each of our bureau quality connected Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Penny Ickes, DCED, dcedpress@pa.gov
# # #
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24020034/226270_iPHONE_14_PHO_akrales_0595.jpg)
English (US)