U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan awarded $71,389,061 in funding to keep 321 local homeless assistance programs in Florida

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WASHINGTON – Jan. 20, 2011 – U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan awarded $71,389,061 in funding to keep 321 local homeless assistance programs in Florida operating in the coming year. The grants form a foundation for the Obama Administration’s Opening Doors strategy.
For a summary of the Florida grants announced today in PDF format, visit HUD’s website.
In a few weeks, thousands of volunteers in most U.S. cities and counties will conduct a national one-night count of homeless persons and families.
“There is a tremendous need on our streets and in our shelters among those experiencing both long-term homelessness as well as families confronting a sudden economic crisis,” said Donovan. “These grants are the life blood for thousands of local housing and service programs that are doing the heavy lifting to meet President Obama’s goal of ending homelessness.”
In June, 19 federal agencies and offices – the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) – submitted a comprehensive strategy to prevent and end homelessness to the President and Congress called, Opening Doors: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. The plan’s stated goal is to end veterans’ and chronic homelessness by 2015; and to end homelessness among children, families and youth by 2020.
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