On June 1, 2020, City Council approved a substantial Amendment to the 2019 Action Plan for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Housing and Community Development programs to authorize the execution of the CARES Act HUD Agreements. 

The CARES Act included a special allocation of Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG-CV) to be used to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic among individuals and families who are homeless or receiving homeless assistance and to support additional homeless assistance and homeless prevention activities to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19.

Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida has requested ESG-CV funding in the amount of Sixty-One Thousand Two Hundred Forty-Nine Dollars ($61,249).  Funding will support their rapid rehousing program that moves people out of shelters into permanent homes.