The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded Georgia organizations fighting homelessness more than $58 million in federal grants, with much of those funds going to metro Atlanta programs striving to find homes for the unhoused.
Georgia will receive $58.2 million from the nearly $3.16 billion HUD is allocating nationally through its Continuum of Care program, which assists in everything from funding to collecting data on the unhoused, the federal agency says.
Metro Atlanta groups and programs, ranging from Atlanta’s Phoenix House to MUST Ministries in Cobb County, will receive more than $13 million in funds slated specifically for the area’s biggest counties, according to a list of recipients on HUD’s website.
Millions more will also go to individual organizations and programming in metro Atlanta that are not affiliated with the area’s counties.
“Now, more than ever, we are doing all we can to get people off the street and into permanent homes with access to services. That is why we are making sure the service providers on the frontlines of this crisis have the resources they need,” HUD secretary Marcia L. Fudge said in a news release announcing the grants.