The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded the Atlanta Housing Authority ten vouchers for former foster youth who have aged out of care and are in need of housing assistance.
It’s the first such award to a Georgia housing authority from the federal program known as the Foster Youth to Independence initiative in several years and follows a WABE and ProPublica investigation that showed how the state had fallen short in accessing the vouchers.
According to HUD’s data at the time, other states, such as Texas and Washington, had claimed several hundred vouchers to help keep foster youth housed. In Georgia, housing authorities were also eligible to claim hundreds. But the state had only received eight, all for communities in southern Georgia.
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