FY2019-20 Neighborhood Development Annual Report

By the Numbers

Housing Opportunities for Persons

Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)

HOME Investment Partnerships Grant (HOME)

2016 Housing Bonds

Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG)

Nussbaum Fund

With AIDS (HOPWA) $253,016

$8,586,126

$3,005,565

$2,195,579 $1,187,551

$190,509

Sonja had been experiencing homelessness for over a decade. She slept outside in tents, in shelters, motels, and at the Interactive Resource Center’s (IRC) emergency shelter during the winter months. Living life without stable housing was stressful enough for Sonja, but COVID-19 only made things harder. Sonja came to the Greensboro Sportsplex at the beginning of March when the IRC, in partnership with the City of Greensboro, frst opened its 24/7 emergency shelter in response to COVID-19. She, along with other residents experiencing homelessness, eventually moved out of the Sportsplex and into the hotel shelter program in April. The hotel shelter program is funded by the Neighborhood Development Department CARES Act dollars that helped hundreds of other people just like Sonja. In October 2020, Sonja moved into her own house and looks forward to celebrating the holidays in a place she can fnally call home.

Sonja’s Story