FEMA awards $3.7M to Maine for COVID sheltering expenses
The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded more than $3.7 million to Maine to reimburse the cost of using hotel rooms to isolate homeless-shelter populations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The public assistance grant will go to the Maine Department for Health and Human Services to cover the cost of providing hotel rooms for those who needed to be isolated from general-shelter populations between October 2020 and May 2021.
During the pandemic, some 1,022 individuals and 163 families were housed in hotel chains, including Howard Johnson, Comfort Inn and Motel 6.
“FEMA is pleased to be able to assist the state of Maine with these costs,” said FEMA Region 1 Regional Administrator Lori Ehrlich. “Providing resources for our partners on the front lines of the pandemic fight is critical to their success, and our success as a nation.”
So far, FEMA has provided almost $138 million in public assistance grants to Maine to reimburse the state for pandemic-related expenses.
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