Source: Coalition on Human Needs, 2010
Deadline to Sign: September 8, 2010
“The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform has been established by the President to make recommendations to substantially reduce the deficit by 2015. The Commission will forward proposals to Congress if they are agreed to by 14 out of 18 members. Click here for more background information > > [More ...]
Tags: Budget, Coalition on Human Needs, low-income, The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
Source: NAEH Alliance Online News, August 31, 2010.
“The National Alliance to End Homelessness has launched the HEARTH Academy to help communities prepare to meet the ambitious goals of the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act. The HEARTH Act is the first major reform to HUD’s homeless assistance program in nearly two decades. [More ...]
Tags: HEARTH, HUD, NAEH, webinar
Source: Seven Days, June 10, 2010
By Shay Totten
“Residents at Wharf Lane apartments in Burlington could be kicked out of their homes by next year, and now their plight is getting some additional attention.
Those residents have now started an online petition to gain public support and sympathy for their situation. [More ...]
Tags: Wharf Lane
Source: Rutland Herald, May 11, 2010
By Kevin O’Connor
“When Edna Fairbanks-Williams found herself abandoned with five young children almost 50 years ago, she accepted a friend’s loan to buy an old Ford, then made the money back driving around scrubbing other people’s cottages and sewing other people’s clothes.
“My friend said, ‘Give it to someone else that could use it,’” she recalled after trying to repay the favor. “I did, and I’ve been doing it ever since.” [More ...]
Tags: Advocate, Edna Fairbanks-Williams, Poverty, VLIAC, VT Legal Aid
Source: vtdigger.org, April 15, 2010
“Any 82-page bill is a chore to read, but H.792, Challenges for Change 2, is even more challenging than usual. That’s because the bill is a laundry list of statutory alterations designed to grease the wheels for the reorganization of state government under Act 68 (a.k.a Challenges 1), which was enacted in February. [More ...]
Tags: Challenges for Change
Source: Times Argus, April 7, 2010
By Louis Porter, Vermont Press Bureau
“MONTPELIER – The restructuring proposal dubbed Challenges for Change was designed to make state government more efficient, not just cut more than $30 million in state spending. But advocate after advocate testified before lawmakers and administration officials Tuesday evening that the proposal, as drafted by the administration of Gov. James Douglas, would have the same effect as a straight budget cut on their organizations and programs. [More ...]
Tags: Advocates, Challenges for Change, State Policy
By Nancy Remsen
Source: Burlington Free Press, April 4, 2010
“MONTPELIER — The Legislature and the Douglas administration faced a barrage last week after Vermonters got their first glimpse of how state government would be altered under a budgeting experiment dubbed “Challenges for Change.”
“Clearly the proposals put on the table Tuesday shook things up and engendered a fair amount of pushback,” said House Speaker Shap Smith, D-Morristown.
Smith wasn’t backing away from the unusual process. “We still see this as a way to improve outcomes by rethinking the way services are delivered. It’s not just about the money, it is about improving the results we get.” [More ...]
Tags: AHS, Budget, Challenges for Change, Human Services
Nancy Eldrige, the Executive Director of the Cathedral Square Corporation, testified before the House Financial Services Committee in D.C. on March 17th on behalf of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. She testified on the HUD Choice Neighborhoods Initiative and offered recommendations. To read her oral testimony, click here.
Tags: Cathedral Square, Choice Neighborhoods, HUD, Nancy Eldridge
Associated Press
Source: Bennington Banner, March 26, 2010
“WASHINGTON (AP) — Under pressure to stem the foreclosure crisis, the Obama administration launched a plan Friday to reduce the amount some troubled borrowers owe on their home loans and give jobless homeowners a temporary break.
Administration officials cautioned that the plan won’t stop all foreclosures or help all troubled homeowners. Instead, officials said their goal is to meet their original target, announced last year, of helping 3 million to 4 million borrowers avoid foreclosure. [More ...]
Tags: Federal program, Foreclosure Crisis, Foreclosure prevention, Loans, Obama administration
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