A total of about $250,000 is available to agencies providing affordable housing and homeless assistance.
The Clallam County Department of Health and Human Services is accepting applications for money to fund 2010 projects, said Jill Dole, the agency’s prevention specialist, in a prepared statement
Applicants may be nonprofits, for-profit entities, public housing authorities or governmental entities.
The deadline for applications is Dec. 21.
The funds are generated by recording fees collected by the Clallam County Auditor’s Office specifically for affordable housing and homeless housing and assistance.
The estimated revenue available from the affordable housing fund is $100,000, while the estimated revenue available from the homeless housing and assistance fund is $150,000, she said.
Funds may be used for projects or activities designated in the newly revised draft Clallam County Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness and as outlined in SB 2060 legislation, she said.
More than $100,000
Dole said that, in 2009, more than $100,000 in affordable housing fund money was used to support Healthy Families for operations and maintenance of an emergency shelter related to domestic violence; Serenity House to develop permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals at Maloney Heights Project in Port Angeles; Housing Authority of Clallam County for construction assistance with Mutual Self-Help Eklund Heights Project; and West End Outreach for the Shelter to Stable Housing Project, providing emergency shelter services to 50 homeless individuals in Forks.
In addition, she said, $150,000 in homeless housing and assistance fund money supported Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics to provide 177 visits of primary physical health care for homeless or at risk of homelessness individuals; Healthy Families for support services and rental subsidies for homeless people or those at risk of being homeless because of domestic violence; Serenity House support services for Housing Resource Centers in Port Angeles, Sequim and Forks; Serenity House for the Horne Building Expansion to renovate housing in Sequim for homeless families; and the West End Outreach for an Outreach Prevention Project to help chronically homeless individuals and families in Permanent Supportive Housing.
To receive an application with instructions, and a copy of the revised draft Clallam County Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness, phone Dole at 360-565-2608 or e-mail her at jdole@co.clallam.wa.us or phone Jennifer Charles at 360-417-2384 or e-mail her at jcharles@co.clallam.wa.us.