L.A. Wins $66-Million Grant to House Homeless
The Los Angeles Housing Authority has won a $66-million federal grant to work with local nonprofit homeless agencies in a unique program to get nearly 2,000 homeless families off the streets and into permanent housing.
Under the program announced Friday, the Department of Housing and Urban Development will provide rent subsidies for 1,898 low-income housing units--in an expansion of the federal government’s Section 8 program.
The city will work with 11 private homeless agencies that will identify families with the best chances of making the transition from the street. The federal money will help pay the rent, and the local agencies will provide the support services the families need to stay in the housing permanently, officials said.
Ruth Schwartz, director of the Shelter Partnership that helped design the program, said, “This could serve as a national model.”
The program is set to begin in December and operate for five years.
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