235. Agencies Get Millions for Homeless

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The Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded $5 million to three different local nonprofit . The money will be distributed over a four-year and is aimed at helping approximately 1,000 homeless in the county of Arvada.
One agency, with in Woodbridge, is slated to receive $1.5 million. agency director says that they will focus their on educating the homeless. “We will probably build school-home with this money,” he said. “A school-home exactly what it sounds like. It is a and a home. We have already built four -homes throughout the county. We get the homeless off street, and we educate them so they don't to return to the street. We teach them to be auto mechanics, plumbers, landscapers, painters, carpenters, , electricians, and air-conditioning repairmen.
“You wouldn't believe the that we have had. In fact, a couple weeks ago, our office air-conditioning went out. My called a repairman. The repairman was one of first homeless students. He now owns his own -conditioning business, plus two houses, two cars and a ! He has a dozen employees. Holy cow! He's better than I am. He fixed our air-conditioning free. I think I might sign up for air-conditioning class myself.”
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