HUD awards $5.6M to R.I. to provide housing for disabled

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND Urban Development awarded more than $5.6 million to Rhode Island to provide permanent homes and services to low-income people with disabilities in an effort to prevent them from becoming homeless or unnecessarily institutionalized.
THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND Urban Development awarded more than $5.6 million to Rhode Island to provide permanent homes and services to low-income people with disabilities in an effort to prevent them from becoming homeless or unnecessarily institutionalized.

PROVIDENCE – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded more than $5.6 million to Rhode Island to provide permanent homes and services to low-income people with disabilities in an effort to prevent them from becoming homeless or unnecessarily institutionalized.
The R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency also will provide permanent affordable rental housing and needed supportive services to 150 households with “extremely low-income persons with disabilities, many of whom are transitioning out of institutional settings,” according to a press release from HUD.
Funding is through the section 811 Project Rental Assistance program, which enables persons with disabilities who earn less than 30 percent of their area’s median income to live in integrated, affordable housing.
State housing agencies and their state Medicaid, and Health and Human Service partner agencies identify, refer and support target populations of persons with disabilities who require community-based, long-term care services to live independently.
“Everyone needs a stable home to call their own, especially persons with disabilities who can live on their own yet are at risk of becoming homeless,” HUD Secretary Julián Castro said in a statement. “These grants will provide real opportunity by cutting health care costs for states while allowing folks to live as independently as possible.”
HUD Rhode Island Field Office Director Nancy Smith Greer said the funding will have a “tremendous impact in bringing stability to the lives of some of our most vulnerable citizens.”
“We’re proud to be a partner in providing permanent supportive housing solutions to persons with disabilities here in Rhode Island,” she said.

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