[Music] last week United Way of Lewis and Clark announced it is under contract to purchase the Helena Inn tonight mtn's Rachel fortunado sat down with United Way and has more on the 48 unit building that will be converted into studio apartments for permanent Supportive Housing on Thursday United Way of the ls and Clark area announced they are under contract to purchase the Helena Inn the property is located near the interstate off Cedar Avenue the future purchase of the Inn has started United Wa
y's housing First Capital campaign they plan for All 48 units of the in to be converted into studio apartments for permanent support of housing affordable housing and housing needs is a top issue for the community according to nonprofits and elected leaders our statistics locally uh concerning uh folks who need housing we know that there are at least 100 people out there looking for places like this and to offer 48 units pretty quickly it's just an opportunity we cannot pass up one of the bigges
t problems we have in Helen right now is there are people who will finally after quite a long amount of time qualify for a Section 8 voucher and they can't find anywhere to use it the will not be a homeless shelter but offer housing to those who have qualified for Section 8 vouchers it's a quick turnaround we're fundraising as of this week we'll be looking for Grants and Foundation support and all the things that we need to do um to make the purchase happen and and we're hoping that we can start
moving people in mid year United Way's goal is to raise $5 million in the next few months for this project in the future United Way plans to continue to build out services this location gives us the opportunity to bring people on site to provide case management or mental health services we could provide groups there we can teach Independent Living skill classes we could have AA meetings there's a lot of things that can happen um for people when people have stable housing um then they are better
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