Washington, DC – Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson today announced that the City of Dallas and the County of Dallas will receive $18,354,522 in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), economic recovery legislation that Congress passed and President Obama signed into law in February.

“The Obama administration has moved quickly to award recovery money to state and local governments,” Congresswoman Johnson said.  “I am pleased that District 30 will receive millions more in grants.  Not only will the funding help to move our economy towards recovery, it will help families in our community that are in crisis.”

The City of Dallas will receive $12,787,300 from the U.S. Department of Energy under the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program.  Local governments can use EECBG money for energy audits, building retrofits, the development and implementation of advanced building codes and inspections, and the creation of financial incentive programs for energy improvements.  The Cities of Cedar Hill and DeSoto received EECBG funding earlier this month.

The City of Dallas will also receive $4,700,469 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, which funds the rehabilitation of affordable housing and the construction and improvement of public facilities.  Finally, the County of Dallas will receive $866,753 from HUD in Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing (HPRP) funds.  HPRP grants financial assistance to people who would otherwise become homeless, in the form of rental assistance, security deposits, utility deposits and payments, moving cost assistance, and hotel vouchers.

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U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson is the highest-ranking Texan on the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure and a senior member of the Science Committee. She represents the 30th Congressional District of Texas, which, includes Downtown Dallas, Fair Park, Oak Lawn, Old East Dallas, Pleasant Grove, & South Oak Cliff; all of Balch Springs, DeSoto, Hutchins, Lancaster & Wilmer and parts of Cedar Hill, Duncanville, Ferris, Glenn Heights and Ovilla.