City of Houston Housing and Community Development Department - HOUSTON

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City of Houston Housing and Community Development Department - HOUSTON

601 Sawyer,
Houston, TX - 77007

  • (713) 865-9314

About City of Houston Housing and Community Development Department - HOUSTON

Last-Modified: 2024-02-06 23:20:12

Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing ProgramOn February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,which ludes $1.5 billion for a Homelessness Prevention Fund.
City of Houston Housing and Community Development Department - HOUSTON offers program that called the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP), is being distributed based on the formula used for the Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG) program. Grantees may provide rental assistance or services to eligible program participants who are residing or would like to reside outside their jurisdiction.
They may also fund ubgrantees that serve persons outside of the jurisdiction, subgrantees that are located outside of the jurisdiction, and subgrantees that serve multiple jurisdictions. A grantee may establish more stringent requirements, such as requiring that HPRP funds be spent within the jurisdiction or establishing a residency requirement,but HUD is not setting these requirements.
Counties served: Dallas County

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May 14, 2020

What do I need to get help

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Apr 8, 2021

I have no money to pay my rent, I'm not even working right now at the time so my landlord kicks me out of my apartment.

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Aug 6, 2021

I am in need of assistance from somewhere, I managed to pull rent together 575. Not sure what's going to happen next, I'm 64 years old with an income of 287.50 a month.

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