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<br /> The Board reviewed a Press Journal Article of December 24 . 2000 and Fiscal Year
<br /> 2000 Continuum of Care Competition Homeless Assistance Awards Report as follows :
<br /> Press Journal - December 24 , 2000
<br /> County to use
<br /> $ 293 898grant
<br /> to help homeless
<br /> IN The county ' s " We pay to Washington a whole
<br /> Homeless Shelter and lot more in taxes than we get
<br /> back " in Indian River County, he
<br /> Assistance Center wants said.
<br /> t0ram a utr0 called The current 16- bed homeless
<br /> p program shelter at 2686 N. U .S . l will close
<br /> Family Options in the when the larger Fourth Street
<br /> building it owns at 720 building is finished. Macht said.
<br /> 4th St . , the former The grant will pay for an addition
<br /> to the building, renovations and
<br /> Hibiscus Manor assisted added bathrooms, he said.
<br /> living facility . Enough money will be left over
<br /> to do some repairs on the building
<br /> By JIM OAINES leasd Lucie from the he county at 2525 St.
<br /> Press Journal Staff writer
<br /> No one will live there. It will
<br /> Indian River County will get a contain the Homeless Shelter and
<br /> 52939898 grant from the U.S. De- Assistance Center office and a
<br /> ppartment of Housing and Urban One-Stop Homeless Services Cen-
<br /> Developpment to assist the home- ter, combining several social ser-
<br /> lew. HUD announced Saturday. vice offices in one location, Macht
<br /> This is going to enable us to said
<br /> do all the renovation and expan- The grant came from HUD's
<br /> sion on our Fourth Street facility Continuum of Care Competition.
<br /> for homeless families, " said The Continuum of Care concept is
<br /> County Commissioner Ken not to give just immediate, one-
<br /> Macht. He is former chairman of time help, but to ober a range of
<br /> the county's Task Force on the services that can help people per-
<br /> September
<br /> er-
<br /> S
<br /> Homeless, which disbanded' repnded in manently, from emergency care to
<br /> P replaced t . job trainingand help with housing,
<br /> the Indian River Homeless Ser- ccording tthe HUD Web site.
<br /> vices
<br /> o ati Council, a nonprofit cor- That 's just what the Homeless
<br /> The county's Homeless Shelter Shelter and Assistance Center aims
<br /> and Assistance Center wants to to do . Macht said: Get people off
<br /> put a program called Family Op the street and "get them back on
<br /> tions in the building it owns at 720 the taxpaying rolls. "
<br /> 4th St., the former Hibiscus And competition for HUD
<br /> Manor assisted living facility. grants is stiff.
<br /> There families could get train- "As I understand it, there were
<br /> ing on budgeting and home owner- only 16 extended out of some
<br /> ship before entering a first-time 40,000 applications, " Macht said.
<br /> home buyer prottram. " It's - a great tribute to our grant
<br /> In November. the state turned writer. Louise ( Hubbard ). "
<br /> down the council ' s request for a Hubbard was planning director
<br /> S212.0W grant for the same pur- for the Task Force on the Home .
<br /> Pose less, and is executive director of
<br /> But federal funding is espe - the Indian River Homeless Ser -
<br /> cially welcome . Macht said . vices Council .
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