Tag: disaster housing assistance program

As one of the co-chairs of the Congressional Homelessness Caucus, U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., is calling on Congress to include more funds for the homeless if it passed a fourth stimulus package responding to the coronavirus pandemic.

At the end of last week, U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla., led Democrats in the Florida congressional delegation in sending a letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Peter Gaynor, urging the agency to work with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide transitional or affordable housing for Puerto Ricans arriving in Florida.