$1-Million Grant to Help House AIDS Patients
Three Los Angeles nonprofit organizations working together have won a $1.1-million grant to provide housing and services to low-income people with AIDS, the Clinton administration announced Friday.
The West Hollywood Community Housing Corp., in conjunction with the Trinity Learning Center of Project New Hope and the Hollywood Community Housing Corp., will receive funding for a program that couples inexpensive housing with the counseling, food, housekeeping and medical services that AIDS patients who want to live independent lives require.
The three groups will administer programs at sites in Hollywood, San Pedro, Santa Monica, Silver Lake and West Hollywood where AIDS patients, who might otherwise be homeless, reside.
“People with AIDS who lose their housing often die within six months on the street but they can live for 10 years under good conditions in good housing,” said Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry G. Cisneros.
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