{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/releases/reed-announces-almost-6-million-for-ri-homeless-programs", "Reed Announces Almost $6 Million for RI Homeless Programs", "2016-12-20", "2016", "2016-12", "Democrat", "House", "RI", "Jack Reed", "R000122", "www.reed.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12/20/2016\u00a0\u2014\u00a0PROVIDENCE, RI - U.S. Senator Jack Reed today announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is awarding a total of $5.9 million in Continuum of Care (CoC) grants for Rhode Island homeless assistance programs.\u00a0 This federal funding will support more than 40 homeless assistance projects that enable providers throughout the state to deliver safe, affordable housing and supportive services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness in Rhode Island.\r\n\u201cThis federal funding helps people in need find a safe place to call home and access supportive services.\u00a0 Our goal is to help displaced people or people experiencing chronic homelessness to secure a roof over their heads and help them become self-sufficient again. Whether it\u2019s helping a homeless veteran who is struggling with PTSD or a family that is facing an eviction, these grants help stabilize vulnerable individuals and families.\u00a0 We are committed to preventing and ending homelessness throughout the state, and these federal funds are vital to keeping that commitment,\u201d said Senator Reed, the Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (THUD), who helped provide nearly $2 billion for the CoC program in the fiscal year 2016 appropriations bill.\r\nThe federal grants are distributed by HUD and jointly administered by non-profits throughout the state.\u00a0 These funds offer a variety of housing and services, including transitional and permanent supportive housing, rapid re-housing, street outreach, client assessments, and other services.\u00a0 Grants will also support several new projects that will provide additional supportive housing and rapid rehousing services, and statewide tenant-based rental assistance vouchers.\r\nAccording to HUD\u2019s 2016 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, a total of 1,160 people across Rhode Island were experiencing homelessness on a single night in late January 2016. \u00a0\u00a0\r\nSenator Reed has been a strong supporter of housing assistance and homelessness prevention initiatives.\u00a0 Reed is the author of the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act, which President Obama signed into law in May of 2009.\u00a0 This legislation streamlined and boosted homeless assistance and prevention \u00a0programs and required the development of a \u201cnational strategic plan\u201d to end homelessness. This plan, Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, was produced and led by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness and serves as the national roadmap to end veterans\u2019 and chronic homelessness, as well as to end homelessness among children, family, and youth.\r\nState and local homeless projects receiving the federal funding include:\r\n2010 S+C Project: $113,185\r\n2012 Rental Assistance Re-Allocation: $180,871\r\n414 Friendship St.: $73,934\r\n70 Linwood Apartments: $176,915\r\nACCESS to Home: $320,326\r\nAgape Permanent Supportive Housing Program: $24,055\r\nAmos House Swan Street: $86,819\r\nBurnside Ave. Permanent Supportive Housing: $81,636\r\nCoC Planning Grant: $230,566\r\nComing Home Permanent Supportive Housing Project: $160,600\r\nConstitution Hill Supportive Housing Program: $133,732\r\nCrossroads Providence Transitional Housing: $144,144\r\nCrossroads Rapid Re-Housing Project for Families: $187,470\r\nEast, Earl and Warwick Ave.: $30,185\r\nEastbay Coalition for the Homeless Transitional Housing Project: $62,057\r\nFair Street: $38,708\r\nFirst Step Program: $48,386\r\nFran Conway House of Hope: $148,721\r\nGemini Apartments: $27,214\r\nGreater Westerly Supportive Housing Expansion Project: $64,989\r\nHaswill Street: $49,756\r\nHousing the Longest Homeless: $80,233\r\nLedge Street: $27,925\r\nLucy's Hearth Transitional Housing Program: $40,352\r\nMcKinney Cooperative Shelter: $84,361\r\nOperation Stand Down West Warwick: $172,652\r\nPermanent Housing for Disabled Adults: $90,592\r\nPermanent Housing for Disabled Elders: $129,673\r\nRhode Island Family Shelter: $67,500\r\nRhode Island Homeless Management Information System: $97,064\r\nRhode Island Housing Permanent Supportive Housing Project: $230,272\r\nSojourner House Rapid Re-Housing: $150,000\r\nStatewide TBRA for the Homeless: $50,563\r\nSupportive Housing Program: $4,246\r\nThe Key: $94,482\r\nThe Sarah Frances Grant Homestead: $48,643\r\nTransitional Housing Program: $33,077\r\nTransitional Housing Project-BVAC: $31,513\r\nTravelers Aid Housing: $33,083\r\nTravelers Aid of Rhode Island: $51,789\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t  \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/releases/reed-announces-almost-6-million-for-ri-homeless-programs"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9612028952687979, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}