TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Tarrant County residents in need of affordable housing will have more options soon.
The County Commissioners Court authorized $19.9 million out of it’s $32.5 American Rescue Plan Act State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund dollars to fund 105 new units in four developments.
Fort Worth Housing Solutions, Presbyterian Night Shelter, and Tobias Place, LP, are the developers who received funding authorizations.
Assistant Tarrant County Administrator Kristen Camareno said the move will help stabilize homelessness in the community.
“When people think of homelessness they think of people sleeping on the street and that’s not always the case. Homeless means they don’t have a permanent home so that could be somebody sleeping in a car, that could be a family sleeping with relatives…sleeping on the couch,” she said.
Leaders partnered with the Tarrant County Homeless Coalition, who manages a database of individuals who are chronically homeless, to help facilitate the process.
Camareno said the developers who received funds will will work with the coalition to get residents moved in.
“So that when those units are available they will pull from that database and begin to offer those units at affordable or deeply affordable depending on the household income,” she said.
“I’m proud of how quickly we are moving to fund these proposals for affordable and deeply affordable housing,” said Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley. “We have great community partners who are ready to develop these units and, by doing so, we will significantly decrease the number of people facing homelessness in Tarrant County. Once again, I believe Tarrant County is setting the bar for collaborative partnerships and the strategic deployment of resources.”
The county plans to authorize a second round of proposals to allocate the $12.6 million in funding.
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