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Sonoma County Approves $7.14 million in Grants for Community Development Projects

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    • The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approved $7.14 million in grants for affordable housing, public facilities improvements, rental assistance, emergency shelter operations, fair housing services, homelessness prevention, case management and financial stability for low-income residents.

    The funding mostly comes from federal Community Development Block Grants, as well as the federal HOME Investment Partnerships Program and federal Emergency Solutions Grants.

    The funding will go to community-based organizations, affordable housing developers, and county and city agencies to support various projects related to housing affordability, homeless outreach and referral, a new service navigation center in west county, microenterprise assistance to expand affordable childcare, accessibility improvements and legal assistance to prevent homelessness.

    The recipients and projects include:

    Project Sponsor Project Name Award Amount
    WeeCare BOOST $258,000
    Spectrum Affordable Housing Redwood Glen Apartments – 42 affordable units $200,000
    Burbank Housing Dry Creek Commons – 57 affordable units $471,895
    City of Cloverdale 1st Street ADA barrier removal $392,000
    Sonoma County CDC Housing Rehabilitation & Earthquake Resistant Bracing System Programs $500,000
    Legal Aid of Sonoma Co. HOME – Housing Justice Program $170,956
    Fair Housing Advocates of Northern CA Fair Housing Education & Enforcement $110,000
    Community Action Partnership Sloan House Women’s Shelter $82,155
    Homeless Action Sonoma Home & Safe Navigation Center $300,000
    Social Advocates for Youth Street Outreach & Rapid ReHousing $133,213
    Sonoma Applied Villages Services Horizon Shine Transitional Housing & Navigation Center $100,000
    West County Community Services West County Homeless Outreach $200,000
    West County Community Services Service Navigation, Health & Mental Health Services Project Contingency $213,851
    City of Healdsburg Northern Sonoma County Homeless Services Expansion $141,636
    Mid-Peninsula the Farm Summer Oaks – 71 affordable units $2,426,242
    Sonoma County Housing Authority Tenant Based Rental Assistance $88,000
    Sonoma Applied Villages SAVS Outreach $139,478
    Social Advocates for Youth Rapid ReHousing $75,400
    TLC Child & Family Services TLC Transition Age Youth Rapid Re-Housing Program $102,400
    West County Community Services West County Homeless Prevention $72,200
    So. Co. CDC Program Admin Costs Program Administrative Costs $438,431
    City of Healdsburg L&M Village Rehabilitation $200,000
    Homeless Action Sonoma Home & Safe Center $75,000
    Legal Aid Sonoma County Housing Justice Program $100,000
    Common Space Community Land Trust Cooper Road $112,489

     

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