Arizona
Arizona Housing Fund issues first grants totaling $850K
PHOENIX — The Arizona Housing Fund introduced this week that 4 distinctive tasks will obtain grants totaling $850,000 to assist deal with the state’s homelessness epidemic.
The tasks receiving the grants, which come after three years of personal sector fundraising, embody the event of transport container micro-homes and hotel-to-apartment conversions.
“The answer to Arizona’s homelessness disaster is easy. Add extra housing. And that’s precisely what we’re doing with these grants,” Arizona Housing Fund Founder Howard Epstein stated in a press launch.
“In every of those instances, established Arizona nonprofits had tasks within the works that wanted an additional infusion of funding – typically resulting from supplies value will increase since undertaking approvals – and we have been capable of assist shut that hole and produce these tasks to fruition.”
Arizona Housing Inc. was awarded $300,000 to assist homeless seniors and veterans by changing a 50-unit motel close to the intersection of Van Buren and thirty second streets to everlasting reasonably priced supportive housing.
The property, bought final 12 months for $5.1 million, will function full-time, on-site case administration companies to assist residents obtain self-sufficiency and independence whereas additionally working with native organizations to offer meals. The grant pays for renovation enhancements and up to date materials value escalations, in response to the discharge.
St. Vincent de Paul obtained $250,000 to construct a 100-bed complete transitional group for individuals experiencing homelessness, with a concentrate on seniors, veterans and people with disabilities.
Set to be full by March 2024, the shelter will make the most of authorities and nonprofit companions to assist residents navigate life-altering crises.
The Coalition for Compassion and Justice was awarded $200,000 to develop a 25-unit manufactured residence park at Paloma Village in Chino Valley.
Together with growing reasonably priced housing within the space, the park can have on-site companies to offer residents entry to healthcare insurance coverage and assist with incapacity claims, meals help, disaster companies and therapy. The grant will purchase the primary manufactured houses and totally furnish a mannequin residence to assist organizations and group members share their imaginative and prescient for the undertaking, in response to the discharge.
The ultimate $100,000 will probably be utilized by Household Promise of Larger Phoenix to develop a six-unit transport container micro-community in Glendale that can function a mannequin for comparable micro-communities on church properties, in response to the discharge.
The group focuses on serving to households with kids go from homelessness to housing whereas addressing a number of social determinants.
The grants have been permitted by the Arizona Housing Fund Advisory Committee, with every of the recipients having a minimum of 5 years of expertise managing and working sustainable supportive housing, in response to the discharge.