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<p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Contact:  Steve
Bonnar, 208-883-3438, <a href="mailto:piratesteve@juno.com">piratesteve@juno.com</a></span></p>

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Homeless Shelter Loses Funding</span></p>

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<p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sojourners' Alliance
was informed Monday they will not be receiving the $100,000 Moscow
Transitional Housing Grant that has sustained their operations for the
last 19 years.</span></p>

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<p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"I'm just
shocked.  Breathless," said Steve Bonnar, Executive Director. 
"There had been discussion that HUD was changing their priorities over the
next couple of years.  We've been planning for a transition on that
timeframe."  The agency now has to begin filling a $100,000 gap by
June 1.</span></p>

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<p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"We have plans to
switch to the newly preferred HUD model," said Bonnar.  They can't do
it with thirty days notice.  "We need a chance to catch our
breath."</span></p>

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<p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Latah County
Commissioner Tom Lamar is deeply concerned.  "People aren't aware of
the breadth of services they offer.  They have programs for homelessness,
mental health, addictions..." Sojourners' Alliance provides shelters for
men, women and families.  </span><b><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Based on funding availability,
Sojourners' Alliance has provided rental and utility assistance to those in
crisis.</span></b></p>

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<p style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 6.75pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"I've pulled together representatives
from the county, hospital and other concerned parties to help them fill the
funding gap.  If we don't succeed thirty of Latah counties most
fragile residents could be homeless as early as June 1."</span></p>

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