BRIEF: R.I. Housing getting $5.6 million federal funding boost for homelessness, rental programs

Feb. 27--PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and U.S. Representatives Jim Langevin and David Cicilline announced Thursday that Rhode Island Housing will receive a federal boost of more than $5.6 million to prevent homelessness and to expand rental assistance for people with disabilities.

The money will come from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 811 Project Rental Assistance program. Rhode Island Housing will administer the program through a partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals and the Rhode Island Department of Human Services.

Rhode Island Housing, in coordination with the state's Executive Office of Health and Human Services and BHDDH, will select properties, identify individuals to integrate into mainstream housing, and provide community-based support services to those individuals. The financing will help move some of Rhode Island's most vulnerable residents into an estimated 150 affordable homes.

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