What funding is available for homeless shelters?
There is funding available through MSHDA for homelessness prevention services. Those monies are intended for both emergency shelter services as well as transitional housing (rent assistance as one example). Homelessness education dollars are available through the Department of Education to local school districts that provide services to communities with high percentages of homeless children. There are also a number of programs with dollars for emergency food assistance that target school services and community-based services (homeless shelters, food banks, etc.) as well as funding for those who provide congregate services through senior centers or other community facilities where there are congregate food services. There is a variety of funding mechanisms available for such programs, but keep in mind as you pursue funding that the demand for these types of dollars has increased all across the country, not just in Michigan, so there is significant demand for these dollars.
