Governor Peter Shumlin announced a strategy to end child and family homelessness in Vermont by 2020 as he presented a $580,000 construction grant for 14 affordable apartments and a day station for the homeless in Burlington.
The three-part plan includes adopting the national "Family Connection" network to ensure that communities have a coordinated system for assessing families' housing needs and connecting them to the appropriate benefits, employment and intervention; bringing together rental subsidy programs so families can get into housing faster; and constructing and rehabilitating homes and apartments for low-income families.
The apartments and day station are being developed by the Committee on Temporary Shelter and Housing Vermont. The grant was funded through the community development block grant program of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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