HUD Awards $19.3 in HIV/AIDS Housing Grants 

HACLA is pleased to announce that the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) in partnership with HACLA just received a Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS Program (HOPWA) grant in the amount of $1,430,000.  This will enable our agencies to continue to provide 36 households with tenant-based rental assistance as well as transition an additional 90 eligible HOPWA households to Section 8 assistance.  Other partners in this collaboration include: The County of Los Angeles Department of Health Services, Office of AIDS Programs and Policy; the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority; and Shelter Partnership (a non-profit organization.)

This is another milestone for our City housing agencies, and just one of 18 national awards recently announced. Below you will find an excerpt from the HUD release announced on Monday, August 18, 2008. Please click here for the full text.

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City of Los Angeles Housing Department will receive a HOPWA renewal grant of $1,430,000 to continue it's tenant-based rental assistance program, called "Connections." In partnership with its project sponsor, the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), the city will continue providing 36 households with tenant-based rental assistance. The program is expected to provide tenant-based rental assistance to 90 other eligible households and is designed to work with the city's Section 8 program to transition HOPWA clients to Section 8 housing assistance. Other partners in the collaboration are the County of Los Angeles Department of Health Services, Office of AIDS Programs and Policy; the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority; and Shelter Partnership, a nonprofit organization providing policy and planning services in the area of homelessness and affordable housing.

For more information contact: City of Los Angeles Housing Department, 1200 West 7th Street, 9th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017. Mr. Thanh Doan, HOPWA Program Co-Coordinator, phone: (213) 922-9661, email: tdoan@lahd.lacity.org or Alan Chin, phone: (213) 808-8926, email: achin@lahd.lacity.org.