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
Hate Crimes against the Homeless: America’s Growing Tide of Violence, a report released by the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH), states that at least 43 homeless individuals were killed in the past year. These violent attacks appear to have been motivated by hatred or bias specifically aimed at homeless persons, most often middle-aged men. [More ...]
Tags: Hate Crimes, homeless, Report
Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness, August 24
On Wednesday, September 15 at 2 p.m. ET, the Alliance will host a webinar to kick off a campaign to encourage Members of Congress to visit local programs serving youth either experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The webinar will include an overview of the campaign, as well as suggested strategies for getting Members of Congress to accept an invitation to visit a program and see first-hand how it affects youth experiencing homelessness in their districts. [More ...]
Tags: Congress, Homelessness, National Alliance to End Homelessness, youth
Source: HUD, July 2010
The total number of homeless persons in America dropped slightly between 2008 and 2009, although the number of homeless families increased — almost certainly due to the ongoing effects of the recession. HUD recently released these data as part of The 2009 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress — the fifth in a series that provides both snapshots of homeless persons on a given night in 2009 (usually at the end of January) and a year-long assessment. [More ...]
Tags: Homelessness, HUD
Source: National Center on Family Homelessness, May 2010
Assesses the second-year enrollment in and impact of Hilton’s initiative to address the needs of homeless and at-risk young families, including employment, education, housing, health, and family functioning; promising practices; and lessons learned.
Tags: family homelessness, Hilton
Source: Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness, Summer 2010
The opinion brief suggests that the aggressive rehousing policies for New York City’s homeless families during the Bloomberg Administration do not work for all homeless families and therefore have destabilized the shelter system by pushing an increasing percentage of families through a revolving door and back into shelter—at great cost to the City.
Tags: Boomerang Homeless Families, Homelessness
Source: Brattleboro Reformer, July 23
By Howard Weiss-Tisman
“BRATTLEBORO — When Congress created the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness, or PATH, program in 1990, small states like Vermont were awarded funding based on a formula that helped them compete with states with larger populations.
The formula is based on the urban population of a state, compared to the urban population of the whole nation. [More ...]
Tags: Federal Funding, Homelessness, PATH, Vermont, Welch
Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness, July 21
“Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee marked up its fiscal year (FY) 2011 Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development (T-HUD) spending bill. Although the T-HUD Subcommittee proposed funding HUD’s McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants program at $2.055 billion in FY 2011 (a 10 percent increase over FY 2010), the full Appropriations Committee proposed providing additional funding. [More ...]
Tags: Appropriations, FY2011, McKinney, T-HUD
Source: Rutland Herald, June 30
By Holly Ramer
“CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire could eliminate homelessness among veterans in four years with a plan that emphasizes moving beyond housing to focus on other support services, according to report released Monday. [More ...]
Tags: Homelessness, New Hampshire, Veterans
Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness, June 29
A new fact sheet published by the Alliance entitled What is “Sustainable” Housing Cost Burden? Implications for HPRP shows that high housing cost burdens are common among those living in poverty. In fact, more than half of households living in poverty pay more than 50 percent of their income toward housing costs. This finding has significant implications for providers of homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing services. Some providers have chosen to screen out potential recipients because of concerns about future cost burden, but analysis shows that, even with high cost burdens, households in poverty can avoid homelessness. The analysis concludes that these households should be served with prevention and rapid re-housing resources even if it may result in them continuing to have a high housing cost burden in the future.
Tags: Cost burden, Homelessness, Sustainable Housing
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