Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG)

The Emergency Shelter Grant funds are available to nonprofit agencies that provide services to people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

Funding Priorities

• Essential Services include employment, health or drug or alcohol addiction counseling, assistance in obtaining public benefits or permanent housing, job placement assistance, and transportation assistance.
• Operational costs include a broad array of emergency shelter or transitional housing operating costs.

• ESG 2010-2011 Application
• ESG 2010-2011 Proposed Budget Worksheets

Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA)

Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS funds may be used to assist eligible clients to obtain or maintain all forms of housing including shared housing arrangements, apartments, and single room occupancy dwellings. HOPWA funds are available to nonprofit agencies that provide services to people with HIV/AIDS who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

Funding Priorities

• Tenant based rental assistance for clients diagnosed with HIV/AIDS to obtain and/or maintain permanent housing, including shared housing arrangements, apartments, and single room occupancy dwellings.
• Support services including health and mental health assessment, permanent housing placement, day care, personal assistance, nutritional assistance, and assistance in gaining access to local, State and Federal government benefits.

• HOPWA 2010-2011 Application
• HOPWA 2010-2011 Proposed Budget Worksheets

Housing Trust Fund (HTF)

The Housing Trust Fund uses include, but are not limited to assistance to housing development or service agencies, equity participation loans, grants, home ownership assistance, predevelopment loans or grants, participation leases, rental assistance, any other housing-related expenses, or other public/private partnership arrangements. The Housing Department accepts HTF applications year round from nonprofit or government agencies.

Funding Priorities

• Destination: Home sponsored projects.
• One-time only office equipment purchase, facility emergency repair, or gap funding for shelters or other homeless service providers.
• Programs that will permanently house chronic homeless households with case management and other supportive services. Chronic homeless households are those households that have been homeless continuously for one year or more or have experienced four or more episodes of homelessness within the past three years, and have a disabling condition.
• Programs geared toward preventing or ending homelessness including those that provide financial assistance, employment services, and case management.
• On-going projects include:
• Housing Services Partnership (HSP) program – the Housing Department’s direct service and financial assistance program for homeless and at-risk households
• Emergency fund for persons displaced due to fires or other such disasters
• Food programs that would be detrimentally impacted by the reporting requirements of the Department’s federal reporting requirements
• Project Homeless Connect

• HTF 2010-2011 Application
• HTF 2010-2011 Proposed Budget Worksheets