VA is providing capital aarp funding to reduce congregrate living and create individual living units for homeless veterans

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration awarded a $5.35 million Project Grant to Chesapeake Health Education Program, Inc. dba Chep on March 23, 2022 under the VA Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program (CFDA 64.024). The funding will support Chep's efforts to reduce congregate living and create individual living units for homeless Veterans in South Carolina.

The VA Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program is the agency's largest transitional housing program for homeless Veterans. Since 1994, the program has awarded grants to community-based organizations providing transitional housing, as well as supportive services to help homeless Veterans achieve residential stability, increase their skill levels and/or income, and obtain greater self-determination. Chep will utilize this award to directly support those goals through the provision of individual living units in place of congregate housing for homeless Veterans in South Carolina.