State officials repurpose federal housing funding as September deadline looms – New Hampshire Bulletin
Flush with federal cash after a series of stimulus packages, New Hampshire officials have spent more than a year building up housing programs to stave off evictions and help homeless people in the state. But the efforts have been complicated by tough upcoming federal deadlines dictating how fast the money must be spent. Departments face an increasingly urgent choice: spend the money or lose it. Now, officials are beginning to move money around to try to meet those deadlines.