Categories: Funding, New York State
01.23.2017
$14 million in Homeless Housing Assistance Program awards.
Governor Cuomo and the Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance announced $14 million in Homeless Housing Assistance Program awards for six programs, including three new supportive housing projects. Awards were made through the state’s Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance’s Homeless Housing Assistance Program (HHAP) to create a total of 110 supportive housing units. Of those 110 units, 62 units have service and operating funding from the first round of the Empire State Supportive Housing Initiative (ESSHI).
The three projects that received awards are:
Breaking Ground/Comunilife Bronxchester (The Bronx) $5,900,000 for 97 units.
Interfaith Partnership on Homelessness (Albany County) $2,621,867 for 5 units.
The Municipal Housing Authority of Utica (Oneida County) $770,000 for 8 units.
The remainder of the funding went to three shelter projects, including Network member Catholic Family Center of Rochester.
Please see OTDA’s website for more information.
In related news, HHAP has suspended taking new applications until after the 2017 budget is passed. They are oversubscribed. The remaining $24 million (for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017) will likely be exhausted by current applications.