Mayor Walsh announces new federal funding to assist Boston’s homeless

Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that the City of Boston has received an additional $1.2 million to provide permanent and transitional housing for 60 formerly homeless individuals and families. The new award is part of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care program, which awarded $140 million in grants this week to nearly 900 homeless assistance programs across the country.

“My administration is committed to ending chronic homelessness in Boston, and this funding will enable us to provide critical, additional services to this population,” Mayor Walsh said. “I want to thank HUD for providing us with these sorely needed and very much appreciated resources.”

This award includes funding for a new permanent supportive housing project, managed by the Pine Street Inn, to provide housing for 11 chronically homeless individuals, and a planning grant to help the City coordinate housing and services to homeless individuals and families.

This grant is the second part of a two-phased award granting more than $23 million to homelessness programs in Boston to provide housing and services to homeless individuals and families. In April, HUD awarded the City of Boston more than $22.3 million in the first round of funding for 49 local homeless housing and service programs. This funding ensures that local projects remain operational and provides critically needed housing and support services to more than 2,000 people and families experiencing homelessness.

HUD Deputy Regional Administrator Kristine Foye and Boston Department of Neighborhood Development Director Sheila Dillon joined the mayor.

“Today homeless assistance programs in Boston will join the thousands of local programs across the country that are on the front lines ending homelessness as we know it,” said Foye.