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Montgomery County introduces $7.75 million aid package for food, housing and nonprofit support
Summary
Council members introduced a $7.75 million supplemental appropriation to expand local food assistance, nonprofit capacity grants, short-term housing help, LGBTQI+ service funding and economic development move grants, with public hearing and action scheduled for Nov. 18. Sponsors said the funds respond to federal disruptions to SNAP and other aid.
Montgomery County Council President Kate Stewart and colleagues introduced a $7.75 million public-service support package on Nov. 4 intended to shore up food assistance, nonprofit capacity and short-term housing as federal benefit disruptions reverberate locally.
The resolution, introduced for formal public hearing and action on Nov. 18, would allocate $3.5 million to the Office of Food System Resilience for food assistance, $2.25 million for community partner support grants, $1.0 million to increase the county's SHARP short-term housing program,…
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