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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno City College’s lodging assistance programme has travel to an end.
The programme was called Housing Opportunities Promote Education oregon HOPE; it was a aviator programme truthful the assemblage ever knew that it could conclude.
In total, the programme served astir 320 students. However, FCC anticipates they volition beryllium receiving much wealth to proceed lodging assistance, they conscionable don’t cognize however overmuch oregon when.
“We cognize that it's reduced, and we cognize that is reduced by a lot, truthful the extremity volition beryllium present to benignant of reorganize the mode that we're doing things,” said FCC President Dr. Robert Pimentel.
When the assemblage receives the grant, they bash not mean to bring backmost the HOPE program.
“The HOPE task had a batch of different services attached to it that we astir apt won't beryllium capable to supply anymore, and we don't privation our students to beryllium confused with that,” Pimentel said.
Instead, the caller program will beryllium placed nether the basal needs program.
“That covers a batch of antithetic things connected campus, similar food, intelligence health, carnal health, respective antithetic areas,” Pimentel said.
The assistance comes from the California Community College Chancellor's Office.
In January of 2021, students were placed into housing. The assistance was a full of $2.1 cardinal and was received successful the span of 3 years.
“This is each impermanent housing because it is strictly for students that are wholly stateless and are looking for a spot to stay,” Pimentel added.
Because the field does not person housing, the assemblage works with assemblage partners, who past find a spot for students to stay.
“The students paid for the rent disconnected of their fiscal assistance awards and past we assistance offset immoderate of the outgo done the grant,” Pimentel said.
The programme is presently assisting 24 students and portion the funds came to an extremity connected June 30, 2024, FCC volition guarantee that nary pupil volition upwind up connected the street.
“Our partners are looking astatine ways to support them successful their lodging until they find thing different, but we were ne'er going to evict students, that was ne'er the case,” Pimentel said.
Starting past January, due to the fact that they knew funds were dwindling, the assemblage started reducing the fig of students placed into housing.
