Fed money to Vermont homeless program

A federal grant of $400,000 has been awarded to the Vermont Department of Mental Health. The four-year grant addresses homelessness around the state and allow the state to establish a program to provide homeless people with housing before anything else. The program will begin by assisting sixty homeless people in the Burlington area, then expand to other areas of Vermont. The state will work with Pathways to Housing to reduce homelessness among the mentally ill.