The federal government is sending Connecticut $29.7 million to accommodate the state’s homeless and to keep more people from falling between the cracks, authorities say.
The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Wednesday it is renewing these funds allocated to the 133 homeless-assistance programs in Connecticut.
HUD said the money will provide the homeless with job training, health and child care, and mental health and substance abuse counseling.
More money is due later this year to all 50 state as part of an Obama administration initiative to end veterans’ and chronic homelessness in this country by 2015; and stamp out homelessness among children, adolescents and families by 2020.
HUD allocated $1.4 billion this fiscal year from its appropriated budget to that effort, up from $1.37 billion last year, the agency said.
