(Des Moines)—The Iowa Finance Authority has awarded slightly more than $900,000 in grants to 27 organizations, including a local one, to assist homeless and domestic violence shelters.
Locally, CAASA, the Center Against Abuse and Sexual Assault, will receive $17,000.
The funding will assist with costs associated with providing essential services, emergency shelter operations and homelessness prevention services. The funding is through the Shelter Assistance Fund program.
Applications for funding are accepted on an annual basis and are judged through a competitive process. The Iowa Finance Authority received 39 eligible applications for the 2013 round requesting more than $1.3 million in funding. The program is funded with proceeds from the Real Estate Transfer Tax.
The Iowa Council on Homelessness reports that 17,900 homeless Iowans were served by service providers throughout the state in 2011…a decline from 18,212 in 2010. Iowa’s Homelessness assistance and prevention programs throughout the state assisted an unduplicated total of more than 44,607 Iowans in 2011.
