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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Women’s Center receives $1M to prevent homelessness

AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs announced a significant award of federal stimulus funding to an area nonprofit designed to mitigate and prevent the effects of homelessness for individuals who are homeless and for the communities where they are located.

TDHCA awarded $1 million to the Montgomery County Women’s Center to provide services to rapidly rehouse homeless residents or prevent individuals from falling into homelessness. The award was made through the Department’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program, an innovative program created by the federal American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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