SUCCESS STORIES: CRAG Funding, Fit to Recover, and Jasmine 3/1/2024 A graduate of WCG’s Green Team Job Training Program, Jasmine, was hired to work as the Farm Assistant at WCG’s Green Phoenix Farm where the Job Training Program takes place. As the Farm Assistant, she is excited to be able to work her “dream job” […]
Success Stories: The Home Repairs Program and Marta March 27, 2024 Marta was able to make some much-needed repairs with the help of the Housing Stability Division Home Repair program. As she tells the story, We were looking for assistance with a broken waterline and I found [the Housing Stability] website. They removed two trees […]
Salt Lake City is celebrating National Consumer Protection Week, March 3-9, by launching a new Consumer Protection Complaint Portal. The user-friendly portal serves as a centralized hub for residents to submit consumer-related complaints and empowers residents to actively participate in protecting themselves and their neighbors from deceptive practices.
SUCCESS STORIES: CRAG Funding, Fit to Recover, and Sandra 3/4/2024 Sandra told her experience of entering the Fit to Recover program as one of finding her people. Not long ago I sheepishly walked through the orange door at Fit to Recover. Having heard of this gym for people in recovery and procrastinating for weeks I […]
Success Stories: The Façade Grant and the RoHa Brewing Project March 3, 2024 The RoHa Brewing Project was awarded funding from the Housing Stability Division Neighborhood Business Improvement Program (NBIP), a.k.a. the Façade Grant. They were able to leverage their funding to improve their outdoor facilities and adapt to new community needs. You can read […]
SUCCESS STORIES: CDBG-Funding, First Step House, and an Employment Preparation and Placement Success December 19, 2023 This success story is from the First Step House’s CDBG-funded, Employment Preparation and Placement Program, a program that provides supportive employment services to high-risk, high-need individuals in the community caught in the cycle of relapse, mental illness, incarceration, homelessness, […]
The Housing Stability Division just published a new Housing Stability Dashboard to organize and document the different projects and programs managed by the Division in one central location.
SUCCESS STORIES: CDBG-Funding, Donated Dental Services, and Dennis October 6, 2023 Dennis felt that his teeth held back his work in mental health advocacy. All that changed with his new smile. Today, as I receive my new dentures, I find myself overwhelmed with gratitude and feel compelled to express my heartfelt appreciation for [the Donate […]
While the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program is designed to assist or benefit low- and moderate-income residents, the true beneficiaries of successfully deployed funding are all the residents within a community, regardless of income or socioeconomic status.
In 2022 RoHa Brewing received funding from the HSD Neighborhood Business Improvement Program (Façade) Grant to improve ADA accessibility for their outdoor seating.