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The Associated Press - Friday, August 23, 1996 6:20 pm EDT
The competitive grants were possible under the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS program.
Created in 1992, money from the $171 million program helps community groups and other organizations provide housing and other services to people with the disease or the virus causing it, as well as their families.
Cisneros said homeless AIDS sufferers live for an average of six months, although some patients may live as long as 10 years, given the right care.
"We are dealing with a life and death problem when we talk about homelessness and AIDS," Cisneros told reporters.
The awards went to:
--West Hollywood Community Housing Corp., West Hollywood, Calif., $1,076,200.
--City of Savannah, Ga., $750,000.
--Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, $976,800.
--Santa Fe Community Housing trust, Santa Fe, N.M., $1,030,000.
--Actors' Fund of America, New York, $750,000.
--Bailey House Inc., New York, $717,268.
--Asociacion de Puertorriquenos en Marcha, Philadelphia, $750,000.
--Bailey-Boushay House, Seattle, $750,000.
--Pima County Community Services, Tucson, Ariz., $538,902.
--Burlington Housing Authority, Burlington, Vt., $496,472.
HUD received 140 applications for this round of competitive grants. Nine other recipients will be announced at a later date, Cisneros said.
The department also distributes the AIDS housing funds, by formula, to 49 metropolitan areas and 27 states with the largest number of AIDS cases reported nationally.
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