The Iowa Finance Authority is sending more than one million dollars to homelessness prevention programs across the state to help fill gaps left behind by expiring federal COVID assistance. Emily Harvey is the Executive Director of the Muscatine Center for Social Action and says the Finance Authority is giving them around $100,000.
They are losing nearly $600,000 in federal funding. The Finance Authority’s new Homelessness Prevention Fund broadens the number of people that can be served, which Harvey gives her organization more flexibility.
The Iowa Finance Authority has put a total of one-point-three million dollars in the fund.
The list of other recipients includes:
**Friends of the Family Northeast Iowa: Black Hawk, Grundy, Tama; Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Hancock, Kossuth, Mitchell, Winnebago, Worth; Allamakee, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek ($210,600)
**Upper Des Moines Opportunity, Inc.: Des Moines, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Hamilton, Humboldt, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Sac, Webster, Wright County. ($80,600)
