In mid-January, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) awarded Dallas and Collin Counties’ homeless rehousing system $7.6 million in its second round of Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funding under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020. This is on top of the $2.3 million awarded earlier in mid-2020.
What sets this round of funding apart is that our system has been more strategic than ever in how it plans to use these awards. MDHA, as the system’s backbone organization, laid out its vision for what the system could accomplish with this funding during the application process late last year. System member organizations recognized the wisdom in this collective impact approach and submitted their applications for funding to MDHA, accordingly. MDHA made its recommendations to TDHCA, and TDHCA’s board followed these recommendations in its awards.
Now, the real work begins. Armed with this new funding, we aim to accomplish outcomes which are audacious, yet eminently doable. Working together, as one system, we will house an additional 700 individuals and families than we could have without this funding. MDHA will use its portion of this funding to bolster its housing navigation and location functions, to enable its partners to reach this goal.
We hope and expect you to hold us and our partners accountable to this. You can check out current and past awardees of ESG funding on the TDHCA ESG NOFA page on our website.
