Housing agencies get grant funds

Ten public housing agencies and administrators in Georgia will receive $871,536 in federal grants to provide job training for low-income people, officials announced Tuesday.

The largest of the U.S. Housing and Urban Development grants go to the state Department of Community Affairs, which will receive $355,591, and to the Augusta Housing Authority, which gets $100,582.

In metro Atlanta, nearly $300,000 in grants will go to the housing authorities of Marietta, East Point, College Park and Fulton County and to Marietta’s Housing Choice Voucher Program, formerly Section 8.

The funds will be used to hire family “self-sufficiency coordinators” and to provide homeownership counseling.