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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Wednesday that Athens will receive $396,000 in Community Development Block Grants and $605,000 to help people who are homeless or in danger of becoming homeless. The Athens Housing Authority is in line for another $2.6 million to modernize public housing.
The block grants can be spent on just about anything - economic development, social services and infrastructure - in four poverty-stricken East Athens and Hancock Corridor census tracts. The homelessness money is for rent assistance, security and utility deposits, moving expenses, credit counseling and case management, said Keith McNeely, director of the Athens-Clarke Human and Economic Department, the local agency that oversees HUD funding.
"If you can get these folks stabilized in their home life, it's going to give them a better opportunity to, first of all, go out and look for a job," McNeely said.
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