11 R.I. communities receive federal funds

CENTRAL FALLS – Nearly $1 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Family Self Sufficiency Program for 11 cities and towns was announced Friday during a visit from U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro.
Castro was joined by U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee, Mayor James Diossa and U.S. Rep. David N. Cicilline for a neighborhood tour of Central Falls.
HUD is one of the key federal agencies assisting city officials to jump-start a revival of economic development in the city.
Reed announced that housing agencies in 11 Rhode Island cities and towns – including Central Falls – will receive a total of $944,261 in federal Family Self Sufficiency program funding to assist communities in developing local strategies to help public and assisted housing residents find work, access job training resources and achieve economic independence.
These grants allow public housing agencies to work with social service agencies, community colleges, businesses and other local partners to help public housing residents and individuals participating in HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher Program increase their education or gain marketable skills that will enable them to obtain employment and advance in their current work.
“The Family Self Sufficiency program is about setting goals and working hard to achieve them. This federal funding will help individuals in public housing learn marketable skills, improve their job prospects, and set them on a path towards greater economic independence and self-sufficiency,” Reed said in a statement.
Communities slated to receive the federal FSS funds include:

  • Central Falls, $62,927
  • Coventry, $51,141
  • Cumberland, $66,764
  • East Greenwich, $68,424
  • East Providence, $24,266
  • Narragansett, $68,424
  • North Providence, $19,853
  • Pawtucket, $136,849
  • Providence, $195,103
  • Warwick, $68,424

Rhode Island Housing also will receive $182,086 in FSS funds to help other local communities with their FSS programs.

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