1800 receive welfare emergency payments
Over 1,800 people across the region received basic supplementary welfare emergency payments so far this year.
Families in Crisis -- which two years ago started offering outreach services to veterans facing housing insecurity or homelessness, in addition to its long-standing mission of helping victims of domestic violence -- received a $400,000 grant from the Texas Veterans Commission's Housing4TexasHeroes program on Nov. 22.