Accion Community Enrichment Center’s EFSP has rent dollars available
Emergency Food and Shelter Assistance-Accion Community Enrichment Center (Miami, FL)
858 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
Phone: 305-547-7713
Emergency Food and Shelter Assistance (EFSA) is an organization that is utilized to help the individuals and families who need emergency help with their utility bills, rent payments, mortgage payments etc. EFSA also have programs that are involved in providing temporary shelters and foods for the helpless in certain critical situations.
Serves zip codes for EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER PROGRAM (EFSP) – ACCION COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER are: 33035, 33125, 33126, 33128, 33129, 33130, 33131 and 33135.
Primary Programs
Emergency food: Emergency food programs deal with serving a number of foods for the individuals and families during their times of crisis. These also include people that do not have any foods or cannot afford to buy foods for money.
Emergency shelter: These are the programs that assist homeless people, newcomers and people who are in crisis by providing emergency shelters.
Mortgage Payment Assistance: Mortgage Payment Assistance is utilized to help people, especially who are about to lose their homes for the lack of proper assistance, by making their mortgage payments. Mortgage Payment Assistance programs might have some eligibility requirements, income, disability, need for example.
Rent payment assistance: These programs aim to guide the people who may be at risk of eviction because they do not have proper guidance regarding their rental payments. Rent Payment Assistance programs help those people by paying full or a proportion of their rental payments. However, like other programs Rent Payment Assistance programs may also have some eligibility requirements.
Utility service payment assistance: People who have their utilities shut off because they failed to pay their utility bills or people who may be facing problems with their payment issues, Utility Service Payment Assistance programs stand to assist them providing full or a part of the utility bills. These include some non-emergency programs as well, for example the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) which is also known as LIEAP or HEAP in some states, that help the low-income households that apply by providing home energy assistance which is usually in term of credit. This assistance may be available only once a year.
Other programs
Health Related Temporary Housing (LH-6300.3650): These programs consider the health of individuals or any member of a family and assist them by providing a temporary or transitional shelter for a period.
Home Purchase/Construction Financing/Refinancing (BH-3500): These programs are utilized in order to assist people with loans and grants who are in need of constructing or buying homes.
Temporary Financial Assistance (NT): Programs that help people, who are having a hard time financially and do not have sufficient resources in order to obtain their required services, by providing monetary assistance which can be in cash, checks, loans or maybe in vouchers.