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Committee approves $4.9 million state CalWORKs housing support supplemental for rental subsidies and shelter work orders
Summary
The Budget and Finance Committee voted 3-0 to forward an ordinance appropriating roughly $4.9–$5.0 million in state funds to the Human Services Agency for CalWORKs housing supports, directing money to eviction prevention, nonprofit rental subsidies and a work order to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
The Budget and Finance Committee on March 12 voted 3-0 to forward an ordinance appropriating roughly $4.9 million in state funds to the Human Services Agency (HSA) to expand CalWORKs housing supports for fiscal 2024–25.
The supplemental appropriation would add state funding to the CalWORKs Housing Support Program (HSP) to pay for eviction-prevention back-rent assistance, additional rental subsidies administered through community-based organizations (CBOs), and a work order to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) to offset sheltering costs for CalWORKs families.
Celia Pedrosa, budget director for the Human Services Agency, told the committee the state Department of Social Services redistributed prior-year…
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