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Community and Economic Development and Housing Homelessness Prevention
Total Funding Available: $1.5 billion
Overview
For homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing activities. Specifically, the funds can be used for short term or medium term rental assistance, housing relocations, and stabilization services (including housing search, mediation, outreach to property owners, credit repair, security or utility deposits, utility payments, rental assistance for a final month at location, moving cost assistance, and case management) for homelessness prevention or re-housing to recently homeless.
Special Factors
Recipients must spend 50 percent of funding within two years, and all funding within three years. Secretary may establish minimum grant size. Secretary must recapture unspent funds.
Grantees must collect data on the use of the funds awarded and persons served with this assistance in the HUD Homeless Management Information System or comparable database. Up to 5 percent may be used for administrative costs.
How to Access Funding
Per the Emergency Shelter Grant program to grantees under formula authorized by Section 413 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. Secretary will establish additional requirements as necessary within 30 days of enactment.
Federal Contact
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Emergency Shelter Grant Program
www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/programs/esg
State Contact
Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Department of Transitional Assistance – (617) 348-8400
www.mass.gov/dta
[Note: this program may move to DHCD this year.]
MMA Staff Contact
Matthew G. Feher, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , (617) 426-7272
Community and Economic Development and Housing Homelessness Prevention
Homelessness Prevention
Total Funding Available: $1.5 billion
Overview
For homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing activities. Specifically, the funds can be used for short term or medium term rental assistance, housing relocations, and stabilization services (including housing search, mediation, outreach to property owners, credit repair, security or utility deposits, utility payments, rental assistance for a final month at location, moving cost assistance, and case management) for homelessness prevention or re-housing to recently homeless.
Special Factors
Recipients must spend 50 percent of funding within two years, and all funding within three years. Secretary may establish minimum grant size. Secretary must recapture unspent funds.
Grantees must collect data on the use of the funds awarded and persons served with this assistance in the HUD Homeless Management Information System or comparable database. Up to 5 percent may be used for administrative costs.
How to Access Funding
Per the Emergency Shelter Grant program to grantees under formula authorized by Section 413 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. Secretary will establish additional requirements as necessary within 30 days of enactment.
Federal Contact
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Emergency Shelter Grant Program
www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/programs/esg
State Contact
Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Department of Transitional Assistance – (617) 348-8400
www.mass.gov/dta
[Note: this program may move to DHCD this year.]
MMA Staff Contact
Matthew G. Feher, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , (617) 426-7272
Last Updated on March 23, 2009
