{"id":9252,"date":"2018-01-17T11:08:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T16:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/?p=9252"},"modified":"2018-01-17T11:08:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T16:08:31","slug":"maryland-department-of-housing-and-community-development-announces-community-development-block-grant-awards-as-part-of-homelessness-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2018\/01\/17\/maryland-department-of-housing-and-community-development-announces-community-development-block-grant-awards-as-part-of-homelessness-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Announces Community Development Block Grant Awards as Part of Homelessness Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/b><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Announces <\/b><b>Community Development Block Grant Awards as Part of Homelessness Initiative<\/b><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Approximately $1.5 million awarded to programs serving the homeless<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>New Carrollton, MD<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (January 17, 2018) &#8211; The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development today announced the recipients of special Fiscal Year 2018 grants through the Community Development Block Grant program. Awarded as part of a homelessness support services initiative, nearly $1.5 million will be distributed to programs in Caroline, Carroll, Dorchester, Somerset, and Talbot counties, along with the Town of Oakland in Garrett County.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe department is working every day to ensure that Maryland\u2019s most vulnerable populations can live safely and comfortably,\u201d said Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Secretary Kenneth C. Holt. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to serve as partners with organizations that share our commitment to ending homelessness in Maryland.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Award recipients will undertake renovations to their facilities, add staff members, and cover operating costs to provide high-quality shelter and services. In Talbot County, for example, the Talbot Interfaith Shelter will use the funding to renovate an existing shelter, adding accessibility improvements to bathrooms and walkways and a wheelchair lift. The Town of Oakland plans to provide funding to construct three buildings for use as transitional housing for people who are homeless due to domestic violence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Development Block Grant funds strengthen Maryland\u2019s communities by aiding in the expansion of affordable housing opportunities, job creation, stabilizing neighborhoods and improving overall quality of life. The funds were provided to the department by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Fiscal Year 2018 Community Development Block Grant Homeless Initiative award recipients are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Caroline County<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">St. Martin\u2019s Ministries &#8211; $100,000<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Carroll County<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Human Services Programs of Carroll County &#8211; $158,092<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Dorchester County<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Delmarva Community Services, Inc. &#8211; $275,000<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Somerset County<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Catholic Charities, Inc.- $130,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Somerset Committee for the Homeless, Inc. &#8211; $150,000<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Talbot County<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Talbot Interfaith Shelter &#8211; $74,000<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Town of Oakland<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Resource Center, Inc. &#8211; $609,620<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"># # #<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MEDIA CONTACT: Sara Luell, Director of Communications, sara.luell@maryland.gov, 301-429-7803<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Announces Community Development Block Grant Awards as Part of Homelessness Initiative Approximately $1.5 million awarded to programs serving the homeless New Carrollton, MD (January 17, 2018) &#8211; The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development today announced the recipients of special Fiscal Year 2018 grants<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2018\/01\/17\/maryland-department-of-housing-and-community-development-announces-community-development-block-grant-awards-as-part-of-homelessness-initiative\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,121,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-development","category-homelessness","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9253,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions\/9253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}