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Finance committee to consider expanding homeless grants
May 17, 2021
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) The Legislature s finance committee is poised this week to consider dramatically expanding grants to help the homeless.
The Republican-controlled committee is scheduled to meet Thursday to consider authorizing provisions in the 2021-23 state budget that would pump $12.6 million into the Department of Administration s Shelter for Homeless and Housing Grants program over the biennium. The program got about $2 million in 2020-21.
The move would provide an additional $10 million over the biennium to a subprogram that provides grants to to local governments and organizations to run housing and support services for the homeless.
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