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In a “continuing effort” to help end veteran homelessness, two federal agencies on Thursday announced more financial support for the states.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Veterans Affairs released $2.9 million to local public housing agencies across the country “to provide a permanent home to 529 veterans and their families who are experiencing homelessness in rural areas,” said a press release.

Of that figure, $189,098 will go to the state’s Hawaii Public Housing Authority to partner with the Pacific Islands Healthcare System in Honolulu. HUD and the VA say 20 local veterans will be helped.

“Homelessness is not unique to our big cities so as we work to end veteran homelessness, we must reach out to those vets living in rural areas as well,” said HUD Secretary Julián Castro. “As a top priority of this Administration, we’ve dramatically reduced veteran homelessness in this country because we have a clear responsibility to serve those who served our nation.”

“As a nation, we rightly made a commitment to help Veterans exit homelessness regardless of the communities where they settle after military service,” said VA Secretary Robert A. McDonald. “We have followed through on that commitment by reducing Veteran homelessness nearly in half nationwide. But much of that progress has come in urban areas so the HUD-VASH awards announced today, which benefit more than 40 rural communities where affordable housing is scarce, are a necessary step in the vital work of taking care of the women and men who bravely served us all.”