ANAHEIM : City to Seek $650,000 for Aid to Homeless
The City Council is expected today to initiate steps that could bring the city’s housing authority an estimated $650,000 in federal funding to help provide shelter to disabled homeless people.
A council motion will allow the city staff to apply for funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
If the request is granted, the money would pay for 100 rental assistance vouchers to aid low-income homeless people with disabilities.
City officials will make special efforts to help homeless people who are mentally ill. According to the city staff, there are more than 1,000 mentally ill homeless people in Anaheim.
To provide the services, the city intends to form a partnership with the Mental Health Assn. of Orange County, HOMES (Helping Our Mentally Ill Experience Success), and the County of Orange Health Care Agency, all of which already work with mentally ill adults.
In other action today, the council will tout its accomplishments in 1993-94. Among a dozen achievements that will be cited are the grand opening of The Pond, reorganization of the Police Department, and an “aggressive effort to maintain Anaheim’s residential utility rates at levels as much as 20% below competing utilities.”
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