12/20/2011 - HUD NEWS
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – Shaun Donovan, Secretary
Office of Public Affairs, Washington, DC 20410

HUD No. 11-290
Brian Sullivan
202) 708-0685 FOR RELEASE
Tuesday
December 20, 2011

HUD AWARDS $1.5 BILLION TO MORE THAN 7,100 LOCAL HOMELESS PROGRAMS

Funding supports Obama Administration strategy to prevent and end homelessness

WASHINGTON – U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan today awarded $1.47 billion to renew funding to more than 7,100 local homeless programs operating across the country. The funding announced today will ensure these housing and service programs remain operating in 2012 and are a critical part of the Obama Administration’s strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness. View a complete list of all the state and local homeless assistance programs awarded funding.
The funding announced today is $62 million more than last year, the most homeless assistance ever awarded by the Department. HUD is renewing funding through its Continuum of Care programs to existing local programs as quickly as possible to prevent any interruption in federal assistance and will award funds to new projects in early 2012.

“The grants we’re awarding today will literally keep the doors of our shelters open and will help those on the front lines of ending homelessness do what they do best,” said Donovan. “It’s incredible that as we work to recover from the greatest economic decline since the Great Depression, the total number of homeless Americans is declining, in large part because of these funds.”
Last week, HUD announced its 2011 “point in time” estimate of the number of homeless persons in America.
Approximately 3,000 cities and counties reported 636,000 homeless persons on a single night in January of 2011, a 2.1 percent decline from the year before. This documented reduction in homelessness was noticed among all population groups including individuals, families, and those experiencing long-term or chronic homeless. In addition, HUD’s estimate reveals a 12 percent reduction in homelessness among veterans.
HUD’s Continuum of Care grants announced today provide permanent and transitional housing to homeless persons as well as services including job training, health care, mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment and child care. Continuum of Care grants are awarded competitively to local programs to meet the needs of their homeless clients. These grants fund a wide variety of programs from street outreach and assessment programs to transitional and permanent housing for homeless persons and families.
Last year, President Obama and 19 federal agencies and offices that form the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) launched the nation’s first comprehensive strategy to prevent and end homelessness. Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness puts the country on a path to end veterans and chronic homelessness by 2015 and to ending homelessness among children, family, and youth by 2020.
In addition to HUD’s annual grant awards, HUD continues to manage the $1.5 billion Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing (HPRP) Program. Made possible through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, this three-year grant program is intended to prevent persons from falling into homelessness or to rapidly re-house them if they do. To date, more than one million persons have been assisted through HPRP.
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STATE # OF PROJECTS TOTAL $
Alaska 25 $3,503,437
Alabama 65 $15,077,980
Arkansas 28 $4,445,771
Arizona 106 $33,097,178
California 827 $236,267,351
Colorado 87 $18,908,442
Connecticut 145 $30,955,085
DC 67 $19,584,006
Delaware 23 $5,167,848
Florida 331 $71,982,208
Georgia 139 $26,412,366
Guam 6 $879,384
Hawaii 37 $10,698,683
Iowa 46 $7,713,769
Idaho 38 $3,487,320
Illinois 400 $83,164,397
Indiana 111 $14,143,635
Kansas 51 $7,040,259
Kentucky 99 $17,076,748
Louisiana 153 $26,303,186
Massachusetts 329 $60,287,802
Maryland 220 $45,393,648
Maine 43 $9,273,528
Michigan 294 $58,882,624
Minnesota 163 $21,457,685
Missouri 113 $24,269,722
Mississippi 27 $4,298,821
Montana 18 $2,436,441
North Carolina 133 $16,661,747
North Dakota 21 $1,856,410
Nebraska 27 $4,170,820
New Hampshire 54 $5,734,811
New Jersey 197 $25,037,712
New Mexico 44 $7,042,298
Nevada 31 $7,038,188
New York 682 $172,228,303
Ohio 286 $70,305,175
Oklahoma 51 $6,049,117
Oregon 112 $19,210,480
Pennsylvania 439 $72,702,321
Puerto Rico 50 $13,473,676
Rhode Island 44 $4,648,987
South Carolina 49 $7,387,804
South Dakota 8 $1,190,215
Tennessee 133 $17,316,659
Texas 240 $64,731,964
Utah 50 $5,260,696
Virginia 141 $20,968,600
Virgin Islands 1 $168,352
Vermont 22 $3,569,374
Washington 208 $38,610,507
Wisconsin 94 $21,348,710
West Virginia 41 $4,429,412
Wyoming 4 $338,517
TOTAL 7153 $1,473,690,179