A $6.5M Contribution to Farmworker Housing
With your Southeast Regional Ag News, I am Haylie Shipp. This is the Ag Information Network.
Housing availability has always been and continues to be a challenge in the world of agricultural workers and, as of the start of May, we are seeing a $6.5 million contribution towards a solution from the Department of Labor.
From the Department, administered by the department’s Employment and Training Administration, the National Farmworker Jobs Program will award approximately eight grants to organizations that assist in the delivery of safe and sanitary housing solutions in one or more states with the highest estimated number of eligible migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Those states include Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Texas and Washington.
Authorized by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, the funding will connect eligible migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents to permanent and temporary housing. At least 70 percent of the funds will go toward permanent housing.
Want more information? Just head to https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/353901 for all of the details. The closing date for grant applications is coming up at the end of June.
