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Trust approves use of $5 million Bezos grant for rapid rehousing; board authorizes contracting with Chapman Partnership and seeks $1.5M state and federal match
Summary
The Miami-Dade Homeless Trust voted to contract Chapman Partnership to administer a $5 million Bezos Day 1 Family Foundation grant focused on families with children and approved state and federal legislative requests to match $1.5 million in Bezos funding.
The Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust unanimously approved using a $5 million grant from the Bezos Day 1 Family Foundation for rapid rehousing assistance targeted to families with minor children and authorized staff to contract with Chapman Partnership to administer the program.
Vicky, the Trust'executive director, told the board $3 million of the grant is set aside for rapid rehousing exclusively for families with minor children and said the Trust currently counts 287 families with minor children in temporary, time-limited settings. She reported the system currently has 43 chronically homeless families, 97 families with at least one…
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