The $6.77-million AHP grants apply to 22 sites in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and West Virginia. Pennsylvania gets $4.8 million, the lion's share of the AHP funding for 16 different programs. Nine of the programs, receiving a total of nearly $3.5 million, are in Philadelphia.

Among the Philadelphia projects is New Covenant Senior Housing, the site where the Pennsylvania Republican made the announcement. It calls for conversion and rehabilitation of an historic structure on the campus into a 56-unit rental development for low-income seniors.

Other Philadelphia projects are Caribe Towers, a 57-unit housing developmentfor older persons; Homeward Bound, a 20-unit transitional rental rehab for homeless adults with mental health or substance abuse problems; Imani Homes IV, an eight-unit, three-building rehab for woman suffering from substance abuse and their children; Kate's Place, for development of an 11-story, 144-unit transitional facility for homeless persons; Monument Mews, for construction of 60 rental units providing transitional housing for homeless families; OCS Independent Living Project, 33 permanent, low-income units forpeople with behavioral health problems; St. Vincent's Home-Tacony, a rehab to bring the six-building complex, built in 1855, up to code for 96 homeless children; Yorktown Arms Phase II, a four-story rental complex for low-income seniors.