Community & Lifestyle

Local efforts succeed in increasing federal funds to addresshomelessness

By Daron Walker

Over the past decade, the Springfield and Sangamon County community has received the lowest amount of U.S. Housing and Urban Development funding to address homelessness among Continuums of Care in the state of Illinois. HUD utilizes an annual Continuum of Care competition and application process to determine the amount of funding communities receive through their Continuum of Care...