Community Development seeking $1.3 million for homeless programs
A pair of introductory ordinances before the Lafayette City-Parish Council Tuesday evening would amend the 2009-2010 fiscal year budget upwards by more than $1.3 million for the receipt of federal grants to aid the homeless in Lafayette.
The lion’s share of the funding — nearly $1.2 million — would come from the federal government’s Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program, part of the stimulus plan, with the state Department of Social Services serving as the conduit for the money. The funding is earmarked for three agencies: S.M.I.L.E. ($426,912), Acadiana Outreach ($416,697) and Acadiana C.A.R.E.S. ($313,275). More than $29,000 of the grant is set aside for the cost of administering the program.
Community Development has also been awarded $125,897 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Emergency Shelter Grant Program; this funding, if approved by the council, would also come through the state DSS. Beneficiaries of this funding would be Acadiana C.A.R.E.S. ($24,000), Acadiana Outreach ($14,000), S.M.I.L.E. ($14,000), St. Joseph Shelter ($13,500), Faith House ($13,400), Acadiana Recovery ($12,400), Acadiana Youth ($12,400), Gatehouse Foundation ($12,000) and Salvation Army ($10,197).
If approved Tuesday, the ordinances would be up for final adoption on April 6. To read Tuesday's CPC agenda and for documents related thereto, click here.
... written by realitychecks , March 23, 2010 - 04:39 pm
WAKE UP UPPER LAFAYETTE!! Why would we seek to be the New 9th Ward? And where, pray tell, would this happen? Why, of course, under the "north Lafayette Redevelopment Law" it will all be dumped on the north side! Acadiana Outreach seeks to get into real estate development under the guise of putting in a "mixed used" development, the new name of "slum" building. HUD funding such as HOPE requires fixed rents and suppressed property values for 40 years! The NLafRedLaw allows the board to control prices.
... written by realitychecks , March 23, 2010 - 06:45 pm
HB 1104 by Rep Robideaux:
Fast takeover of property, circumvented sheriff sales, rent and price controls,etc. and only north Lafayette is in a stituation to not be able to "opt out". Cravins passed this originally with an all black board. Now at page 4 the board will be one member of the Community Foundation, 1 of the Chamber and 3 of Joey Durel buddies, ehr, I mean appointments. While we're talking about consolidation, what is more important is that north Lafayette is once again a pawn on the community chess board!
... written by Morrow , March 24, 2010 - 10:59 am
Is this only for the city of Lafayette, or can it be used in the parish????? If it can be used in the parish, then why shouldn't some of it be used in Broussard, Scott, Carencro, Youngsville, etc.? I am hoping those communities are in line for their fair share. I'm not understanding why this has to be only in the city proper of Lafayette. Frankly, I'm glad it will free up some of the "subsidy" money for non profits that boondoggle the budget every year..... If it does, I sure hope some roads get to be repaved.....
... written by ragin_cajun , March 24, 2010 - 12:10 pm
Does that mean that we can scratch the NGO funding from the City's budget next year?
... written by Buckley , March 25, 2010 - 02:08 pm
Realitychick- Again, a typical blogger;insinuate, point fingers, make accusations about the hidden motives of organizations and never offer a single fact to back it up.Folks, this non sense about the Outreach Center building a slum disguised as mixed use is a fabrication perpetrated by one or two individuals who are trying to gentrify an area and have bitten off way more than they can chew.So instead of admitting that they moved into the hood and - despite their noblesse oblige intentions-it remains very much the hood, they blame it on "social services" which precede their colonization attempts by many,many years. So don't buy into what a couple of unhinged lunatics are forever foaming at the mouth about.This is just about a couple of spoiled sports who misanticipated the real estate market.
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