Housing money to filter down to Grant County
SAM FLETCHER | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 4 years, 7 months AGO
The Housing Authority of Grant County will get a boost through federal funding and the American Rescue plan, an economic stimulus bill signed by President Joe Biden on May 11.
The bill, which Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., helped shepherd through the U.S. Senate, allowed the Department of Housing and Urban Development to allocate additional vouchers to public housing authorities this month.
This means $87,648 will go to the Housing Authority of Grant County through the Emergency Housing Voucher program. Statewide, it means $28 million for Washington housing authorities together, and $5 billion overall nationwide, to help people facing homelessness and housing insecurity.
Calls from the Herald to the Housing Authority of Grant County to inquire about the funds and plans for their use went unanswered.
Washington was already in a housing crisis before the pandemic, Murray said at a press conference Monday.
From 2019 to 2020, Washington saw the third largest increase in people experiencing homelessness in the country, of more than 1,300 people, she said.
ARTICLES BY SAM FLETCHER
'It's refreshing': Summer Street on 3rd brings color to downtown Moses Lake
“We’re moving from recovery to (resilience),” said Downtown Moses Lake Association (DMLA) Executive Director Lexi Smith of post-shutdown Moses Lake.
Off to a fair start: Kiwanis Club hosts Cowboy Breakfast
MOSES LAKE — If the music, games and performances didn’t lure people to Sinkiuse Square Friday morning, it must have been the smell of waffles, syrup, sausage, eggs and coffee as the Kiwanis Club of Moses Lake kicked off the Grant County Fair with the Cowboy Breakfast.
Moses Lake to demolish some old structures
This year, the city of Moses Lake is cleaning up some rubble.