COLUMBIA â Columbia City Council is looking at funding five organizations with $460,537, to provide social services to the community. The organizations plan to get the funding July 1, 2021.
Three of those organizations want to focus some or all its money, which comes from the council s fiscal year 2021 budget, on rental assistance.Â
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 30% of Missourians are either homeless or use more than half of their income to pay for housing, and 176,800 people in Missouri use federal rental assistance.
Rock the Community, Central Missouri Community Action (CMCA) and Love Columbia plan to use their funds for rental assistance.