# of households who received financial assistance (rent and/or utilities) to help with housing cost burdens and prevent homelessness
Current Value
2,140
Definition
Story Behind the Curve
To reach UWSC's bold goal, an additional 72 individuals should receive rent or utility assistance annually through 2025.
In FY20-21, we saw a 13% increase in households receiving rent and utility assistance as compared to our baseline number (FY18-19). It is important to note that this metric pulls data from just 2 funded programs, Good Neighbor Emergency Assistance and The Salvation Army. In FY20-21, many others allocated hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure our neighbors could stay housed. These included our local governments, faith-based organizations, new initiatives such as the Covid-19 Immigrant Fund that United Way convened with St. Cecilia, our partner agencies, and beyond. At the start of Year 3, housing insecurity continues to be a real and pressing concern in Story County.
Partners
The data reported here is an aggregate of data reported (to ASSET) by the rent/utility programs of Good Neighbor Emergency Assistance and The Salvation Army.
*Though ACCESS, ERP, YSS, and MICA (LiHEAP) all provide financial assistance for homelessness prevention, these dollars do not come from UWSC and thus are not part of this calculation.*