Wolf Administration Announces $5.8 Million to Help and Prevent Homelessness

Harrisburg, PA – Neil Weaver, acting secretary of the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED), announced today that $5.8 million has been awarded to homeless families to help them find housing and tackle homelessness in the Commonwealth. Funding is provided through the federal Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) program.

“ESG funding provides local governments and non-profits across the Commonwealth with the tools they need to help unlock critical housing resources for their communities,” Seck said. Weaver. “The funds approved today will go to trusted community organizations to help individuals and families who are or are experiencing homelessness.”

A total of $5,872,054 in ESG funding was approved for 16 municipal grant recipients and six nonprofits that will conduct regional projects covering 26 counties.

2022 ESG funding eligibility falls into six categories: rapid housing, homelessness prevention, street access, emergency shelters, homelessness management information systems (HMIS), and governance.

ESG funding is authorized by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended by the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act of 2009.

Priority is given for funding to applicants representing areas of the Commonwealth that have not already received a direct allocation of Emergency Solutions Grant funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

The list of sanctioned projects is given below:

Allegheny County $300,000

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention

City of Allentown $252,113

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention
• street outreach
• emergency shelter

Bucks County $114,125

Butler County $368,935

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention

Center County $212,689

• homelessness prevention
• emergency shelter

Cumberland County $247,962

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention
• street outreach
• emergency shelter
• hmis

Dauphin County $209,270

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention
• street outreach
• emergency shelter
• hmis

Franklin County $220,987

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention
• street outreach
• emergency shelter
• hmis

Indiana County $79,887

McCain County $155,264

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention
• street outreach
• emergency shelter
• hmis

mercer county

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention
• emergency shelter

Monroe County $409,812

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention
• street outreach
• emergency shelter

Montgomery County $129,687

City of Philadelphia $421,329

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention

Schuylkill County $166,000

• homelessness prevention
• street outreach
• emergency shelter

Wayne County $95,647

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention
• street outreach
• emergency shelter
• hmis

Nonprofit Grant Recipient (Regional Award)

Blair Community Action Program $241,737

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention
• street outreach
• hmis

Center for Community Action $228,250

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention
• hmis

Central Susquehanna Opportunity $274,938

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention
• street outreach
• emergency shelter
• hmis

Clinton County Housing Alliance, Inc. $173,262

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention
• emergency shelter
• hmis

Lawrence County Social Services $1,324,558

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention
• street outreach
• emergency shelter
• hmis

Union-Snyder Community Action Agency $119,027

• Rapid Rehousing
• homelessness prevention
• emergency shelter
• hmis

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