Following the May 14, 2022, massacre at the Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced $50 million in funding to help uplift the East Side of Buffalo.
On the one-year mark, she announced nearly $10 million more.
The governor’s office announced Sunday that an additional $5 million will be made available to the homeowner improvement program for those who live on the East Side. The money will be used to help homeowners cover the costs of emergency home repairs, including addressing code violations. That is in addition to $34.5 million in similar funding that was allocated last year.
Exactly a year to the moment when a white man who drove more than 200 miles to Buffalo with the sole purpose of killing as many Black people as he could carried out a deadly rampage at the Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue, Buffalo paused to remember.
Also, the governor announced a $4 million federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to enhance mental health services. The grant money will be split among a Black Mental Health Response Team led by BestSelf Behavioral Health; University Psychiatric Practice, in collaboration with SayYes Buffalo and the Buffalo Public Schools, to help students struggling with community trauma and training for…
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