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Sioux City to accept roughly $2.9 million in emergency rental-assistance funds and seek homeless-shelter operating grant
Summary
City staff told the council the funds are COVID-era allocations from the U.S. Treasury that will be used for emergency rental assistance, rapid rehousing and a targeted passthrough to support refugee families; a separate state-funded homeless-operations grant would route about $125,000 to the warming shelter with the city as a passthrough.
Sioux City will move forward with a $2.9 million amendment to federal emergency rental-assistance funding and apply for a state homeless-shelter operations grant, city staff said during the council meeting.
The money comes from COVID-era programs administered through the state. "These are emergency rental assistance funds that were allocated out to the state during COVID. They're COVID funds from the Department of Treasury," said Jill Waterscheid, Neighborhood Services Manager. She told the council the city has used prior allocations for homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing.
Waterscheid said the current subgrant is near its end and must be…
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