The Daily Courier
PRESCOTT - The nonprofit Prescott Area Shelter Services (PASS) recently renovated a building to provide temporary housing for as many as six homeless families - a project funded in part by Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) money allocated through the City of Prescott.
“Prescott Area Shelter Services is a model organization that supports the most vulnerable in our community, and helps families transition to permanent housing,” Prescott Mayor Marlin Kuykendall said in a city news release. “We are proud to support their efforts by helping to create a safer and more comfortable environment for their guests.”
Kuykendall added that the city “laid the groundwork that led to Prescott receiving CDBG funds, enabling us to make this significant contribution to the PASS for this facility.”
PASS has received more than $100,000 from CDBG funds in recent years, allowing them to renovate their new facility, a three-story house located at 337 N. Rush Street in Prescott, stated the news release. It added that the house is leased for a nominal amount from PASS’s partner, Disabled American Veterans Prescott Chapter 16.
The CDBG program, funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), helps communities provide decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expanded economic opportunities, principally for persons of low and moderate income. HUD allocated $235,000 to the City of Prescott in 2015 for the grant program. Funds are distributed to community service providers for their facilities.
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