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King County officials warn HUD changes could strip millions from local homelessness programs
Summary
Officials from KCRHA and DESC told the committee that recent HUD funding changes and an appeal of a district court injunction could put as much as $14 million in County awards at risk immediately and roughly $40 million in permanent-housing investments at risk long term; they estimated about 3,247 households could be affected.
King County and homelessness service leaders warned the Health, Housing and Human Services Committee on March 3 that proposed changes by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to the Continuum of Care (CoC) funding competition could destabilize existing supportive housing projects and threaten services for thousands of households.
Jeff Sims, chief program officer at the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA), described a national contest called a NOFO (notice of funding opportunity) that HUD proposed last December and that multiple jurisdictions, including King County, sued to block. A federal district court issued a preliminary injunction that paused HUD's new competition; HUD appealed that injunction yesterday. Sims said the appeal means the county still faces near-term uncertainty and that, if the injunction is lifted, some projects could be required to compete under…
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