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Mesa Community Services details housing assistance, homeowner rehab and animal program during budget briefing
Summary
Community Services staff told the City Council about housing voucher funding, a homeowner emergency rehabilitation program that has distributed more than $2 million, a new trap‑neuter‑return initiative and plans for opioid‑settlement and federal grant spending.
Community Services Director Ruth Giese told the Mesa City Council that the department has continued to expand housing and community supports as it prepares the department’s budget.
The department highlighted its homeowner emergency rehabilitation program, its public housing authority operations, a new trap‑neuter‑return (TNR) program for feral cats and city planning for opioid‑settlement and other federal funding.
The homeowner emergency rehabilitation program, funded with Community Development Block Grant dollars, provides grants of up to $25,000 per household for repairs and accessibility work. “So far to date, we have allocated over $2,000,000 for 27 projects,” Giese said. The…
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