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AHS outlines FY27 shelter plan: hotels as temporary family options, rental assistance and enhanced case management
Summary
Agency for Human Services officials presented a FY27 plan that uses hotel placements as transitional family sheltering, reassigns 12 of 21 limited‑service positions to hotels, proposes $10M for temporary overflow, $3.6M for adverse weather, $1.4M rental assistance for ~80 households and state‑wide enhanced case management; lawmakers asked for a detailed spreadsheet reconciling beds and carry‑forward funds.
State Agency for Human Services (AHS) officials briefed the House Human Services committee on a multi‑part FY27 homelessness plan that blends transitional hotel placements for families, rental assistance, winter weather response and enhanced case management.
Key elements: AHS said it will reallocate existing limited‑service staff and new base funding to support a transition away from routine motel reliance. The agency described 21 limited‑service positions in the program: 12 would be embedded in hotel sites to support family sheltering and nine would remain to operate the program and handle administrative tasks. ‘‘We would take these 12 to be in hotels ... That would leave us 9 to still be able to operate the program,’’ an AHS representative said.
Budget highlights AHS presented to the committee included:
- $10,000,000 proposed as temporary overflow funding for FY27 to serve approximately 327 households…
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