(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Finance Authority is sending more than one million dollars to homelessness prevention programs across the state to help fill a gap left behind by expiring federal COVID assistance. Emily Harvey is the Executive Director of the Muscatine Center for Social Action and says the Finance Authority is giving them around 100-thousand dollars.

They are losing 600-thousand federal dollars.

Here is a listing of the other recipients:
Central Iowa Shelter & Services: Rolling Hills Jasper, Poweshiek, Warren, Marion,
Mahaska, Lucas, Monroe, Wapello, Jefferson, Wayne, Appanoose, Davis, Van
Buren, Keokuk, Iowa ($65,000)
City of Sioux City Siouxland Coalition to End Homelessness (Woodbury County) ($104,000)
Community Solutions of Eastern Iowa: Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson ($80,600)
Crisis Intervention & Advocacy Center:Harrison, Shelby, Audubon, Cass, Mills,
Montgomery, Fremont, Page; Guthrie, Dallas, Adair, Madison, Adams, Union, Clarke, Taylor, Ringgold, Decatur $145,600
Family Crisis Centers, Inc. Northwest Iowa: Carroll, Cherokee, Crawford, Ida, Lyon,
Monona, O’Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux ($65,000))
Friends of the Family Northeast Iowa: Black Hawk, Grundy, Tama; Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Hancock, Kossuth,Mitchell, Winnebago, Worth; Allamakee, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek ($210,600)
Heartland Family Service Threshold Continuum of Care Pottawattamie County ($65,000)
Humility Homes and Services, Inc Quad Cities Bi-State Scott County ($65,000)
Muscatine Center for Social Action Southeast Iowa Cedar, Muscatine, Louisa, Henry, Des
Moines, Lee ($104,000)
Primary Health Care, Inc. Polk County Continuum of Care Polk ($80,600)
Shelter House Johnson/Washington Johnson, Washington ($104,000)
Shelter Housing Corporation The Bridge Home, Two Rivers Boone, Marshall, Story, Hardin, Greene County ($65,000)
Upper Des Moines Opportunity, Inc.: Des Moines Buena Vista, Calhoun, Clay, Dickinson,
Emmet, Hamilton, Humboldt, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Sac, Webster, Wright County. ($80,600)
Waypoint Services Linn/Benton/Jones Linn, Benton, Jones ($65,000)
Institute for Community Alliances Statewide ($35,000)