Winston-Salem Receives $1.135 million to Serve Homeless

Housing/Neighborhood Development - Feb. 21, 2007
Contact: Tim West, 727-8597

EDS: A list of the grants [PDF/35kb/1page]

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Tuesday awarded Winston-Salem and Forsyth County 16 grants, totaling $1.135 million, for programs that serve the homeless. The grants include $147,150 for a new initiative to end chronic homelessness.

The grants will go to 12 agencies. All are earmarked for specific programs, and not for general support, said Tim West, the planning & development coordinator for the city’s Housing/Neighborhood Development Department. The department will administer all but two grants, which were made directly to CenterPoint Human Services and Next Step Ministries.

Fourteen of the grants are renewals for existing programs, West said. Two new grants, totaling $147,150, were awarded to the Experiment in Self Reliance Inc. to support the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.

HUD made the grants under its Continuum of Care initiative, which supports local agencies that provide permanent and transitional housing to the homeless, and provide such services as job training, health care, mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment and child care.

For more information about HUD’s Continuum of Care program, go to www.hud.gov. For more information about the local grants and the Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness, call the Department of Housing/Neighborhood Development at 727-8597.