The Post & Courier
Before the coronavirus spread to the Upstate, the Home Again program was working with families living long term in two substandard motels in Greenville County.
Since the onset of the pandemic, that number has grown to 10.
The Home Again program, a partnership of United Way of Greenville County, the Greenville Housing Fund and United Housing Connections, provides financial support and coaching to families who have been forced to live in motels after pitfalls such as job loss or credit issues. The goal is to allow them to move out of unfit living conditions and into long-term rentals that better meet their family’s need and to lay a ground work for self sufficiency in the future.
The economic toll of the pandemic has significantly increased the number of families forced into unfit living conditions in Greenville County, according to Greenville Housing Fund CEO Bryan Brown.
“Even though there’s been an eviction moratorium and all the rest of it, the numbers don’t lie,” Brown said. “We have more families in this situation than we had before.”
To help address the growing scope of the problem in the Upstate, the charitable arm of TD Bank awarded $250,000 to the Greenville Housing Fund to support the program. GHF was one of 32 organizations to receive support from TD Charitable Foundation’s Housing for Everyone grant program this year.