NC to get $4.7 to fight homelessness
Published: Wed, Feb. 27, 2008 10:12AM
Modified Wed, Feb. 27, 2008 02:51PM
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closeCounties and towns across North Carolina will receive about $4.7 million in FEMA funding to help fight and prevent homelessness, the agency announced.
Wake County will receive $355,854; Johnston County $69,600; Orange County, $52,142; and Durham County, $121,858, according to a press release.
The grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Emergency Food and Shelter program will supplement food, shelter, rent, mortgage and utility assistance programs for people in emergencies not related to disasters.
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FEMA Administrator David Paulison said that $153 million nationally| was made available by Congress for the National Board of the Emergency Food and Shelter (EFS) Program to support social service agencies in more than 2,500 U.S. cities and counties.
"The ESF Program has an extraordinary history of providing food and shelter for families over the past twenty-five years," Paulison said in a statement. "But there is now an unprecedented demand on our shelters from the newest population in need -- the working poor."
The Emergency Food and Shelter program, in its twenty-fifth year, is run by a national board of voluntary agencies including the American Red Cross; Catholic Charities USA; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA; The Salvation Army; United Jewish Communities; and United Way of America.
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