HUD’s award announcement comes days before City Council is to award $31 million to create more permanent supportive housing units in San Antonio.
Trevor Baker, a clinical homeless outreach worker with the city’s Department of Human Services, talks with Josh Palumbo, who had been sleeping under Wurzbach Parkway, trying to get him to move someplace more safe.An award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will provide 47 more families and individuals in San Antonio an escape from chronic homelessness -- a stable, permanent place to live,In addition to the housing vouchers, a group of organizations will share a $14.
“Housing opportunity is economic opportunity, it’s health care, it’s public safety, it’s everything that’s at the foundation of having a secure, thriving community,” Mayor Ron Nirenberg said at the announcement at The Hudson apartment complex on the North Side. The unassuming, two-story white brick complex on Blanco Road is one of three sites in line to receive a combined $31.2 million from theand from city and county coronavirus stimulus funding to provide close to 300 units of permanent support housing. The City Council is expected to approve the funding on Thursday.
The properties will have on-site services, including case managers and mental health counselors, as part of the permanent supportive housing model, which aims to address issues that have caused people to lose housing.
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