Navy, $500,000 Grant to Aid Homeless Families
With $500,000 in a new grant and help from the Navy Seabees, a Ventura County program for homeless families will soon double in size, county officials said Monday.
The RAIN program, now based at Camarillo Airport and housing about 50 people from 11 families, will soon occupy a building once used by the Assn. of Retarded Citizens on Lewis Road. ARC has moved to Ventura.
The building will be refurbished to accommodate up to 22 families with a total of about 110 people.
Plans for the new $1.3-million facility have been in the works since 1998, and a $500,000 state grant awarded last week has allowed them to move forward with a possible opening by next May.
The Seabees will dig trenches and do heavy-construction work.
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