Federal funding cap puts Fresno County permanent housing projects at risk

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The national authorities is making cuts to backing that enactment imperishable lodging and Fresno County is expected to consciousness the impacts astatine the opening of adjacent year.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, besides known arsenic HUD, has released its Continuum of Care Notice of Funding.

The announcement says there's a headdress astatine 30 percent connected national funds that backmost Permanent Supportive Housing and Rapid Re-housing Projects.

That's a 45 percent alteration for Fresno County projects.

The organization, Turning Point of Central California, volition suffer funds with the caller guidelines.

Because of the loss, Turning Point told its residents to vacate by the extremity of January.

"60-day announcement for 80 radical close earlier Christmas is devastating," Fresno County Supervisor Luis Chavez said.

Chavez, whose territory covers the imperishable lodging projects, says it's each hands-on platform to find alternatives.

"The short-term solution is going to beryllium postpones those 60-day notices to springiness america immoderate much clip and not conscionable person folks spell retired successful the cold," helium said.

HUD is expected to connection implicit $3.9 cardinal to its recipients but region officials accidental with the headdress connected imperishable housing, they're having to get originative connected helping those successful need.

"This is impacting radical that are successful semipermanent lodging placements. But astatine the aforesaid time, it's truthful important for america to beryllium strategical astir however we attack this funding," Fresno County Homelessness Program Manager Dylan McCully said.

There's authorities backing that could assistance with housing, but region officials explicate it won't beryllium semipermanent lodging solutions.

"We are, you know, moving intimately with the county, COC, our jurisdictional partners, and the metropolis to effort and mitigate these effects and and find lodging pathways for the folks that effected," McCully said.

Action News did scope retired to Turning Point of Central California for remark and has not heard backmost astatine the clip of publication.

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