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The Center for Hope and Safety is awaiting over a million dollars already promised from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help house domestic violence survivors who are starting fresh, Abbey McDonald reports.
It should have come in March, but homeless service providers say they’re seeing delays and fear outright cancellation of existing grants, along with new strings attached to get federal money.
Meantime, local college leaders joined a national effort to defend academic freedom.
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With $4 million in funding toward Salem-area homeless services in limbo, providers worry that changes in federal contracts indicate deeper cuts and more restrictions on care ahead.
More than 200 U.S. college and university leaders signed a letter Tuesday objecting to the “coercive use of public research funding.”
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