Two grants boosting Boise’s work to address housing affordability and homelessness are still plowing ahead.
Last fall and in early January, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded the City of Boise with two multi-million-dollar grants. The grants were to preserve existing low-income housing in Idaho’s capital city and to create a new program specifically aimed at housing people under the age of 24 without a home of their own. The City of Boise landed $6.7 million to preserve the Sage Mobile Home Park and keep other parks sustainable city-wide and another $3.2 million for its youth homelessness initiative.
Both of these programs will continue even as President Donald Trump’s administration has made cuts to grants and federal staff nationwide, impacting a variety of programs across the country and overseas…