The City of Mesa is currently accepting applications for its Emergency Solutions Grant Program 2022.
Donor Name: City of Mesa
State: Arizona
City: Mesa
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/13/2022
Size of the Grant: $360,345
Details:
The ESG program provides funding to:
- Engage homeless individuals and families living on the street;
- Improve the number and quality of emergency shelters for homeless individuals and families;
- Help operate these shelters;
- Provide essential services to shelter residents, (5) rapidly rehouse homeless individuals and families, and
- Prevent families/individuals from becoming homeless.
Funding Information
Size of the fund is $$360,345.
Eligible Program Components
- Street Outreach
- Essential Services necessary to reach out to unsheltered homeless individuals and families, connect them with emergency shelter, housing, or critical services, and provide them with urgent, non-facility-based care. Component services generally consist of engagement, case management, emergency health and mental health services, and transportation.
- Emergency Shelter
- Renovation of a building to serve as an emergency shelter. Site must serve homeless persons for at least 3 or 10 years, depending on the cost and type of renovation (major rehabilitation, conversion, or other renovation). Note: Property acquisition and new construction are ineligible.
- Essential Services for individuals and families in emergency shelter. Component services generally consist of case management, child care, education services, employment assistance and job training, outpatient health services, legal services, life skills training, mental health services, substance abuse treatment services, and transportation.
- Shelter Operations, including maintenance, rent, security, fuel, equipment, insurance, utilities, and furnishings.
- Relocation assistance for persons displaced by a project assisted with ESG funds.
- Homelessness Prevention
- Housing relocation and stabilization services and/or shortand/or medium-term rental assistance necessary to prevent the individual or family from moving into an emergency shelter or another place.
- Component services and assistance generally consist of short-term and medium-term rental assistance, rental arrears, rental application fees, security deposits, advance payment of last month’s rent, utility deposits and payments, moving costs, housing search and placement, housing stability case management, mediation, legal services, and credit repair.
- Non-profit, community housing development and for-profit organizations can apply for federal funding through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs.
For more information, visit City of Mesa.