The United Way of the Plains has announced that a $3.2 million federal grant will be awarded to the Coalition to End Homelessness in Sedgwick County.

The grant is from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and it will fund all projects currently supported in Sedgwick County.

The United Way is the leading agency for the coalition, which is made up of of nonprofit agencies, the faith community, government entities, businesses, and other community advocates.

Andy Houltberg, Coalition Chair and CEO of Breakthrough Episcopal Social Services, issued a statement saying “Homelessness has a simple solution: housing. This funding allows us to serve our most vulnerable unhoused neighbors through supportive services and directly housing them, from the street or from a shelter. However, while the solution is simple, the roadmap to preventing and ending homelessness across the full community takes the full community, not any one entity. The Coalition to End Homelessness strives every day to improve upon the work of the day before, committed to making homelessness rare, brief and nonrecurring for all our neighbors.”