Jobs Bill Recommendation: $1 Billion to Expand HPRP
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Federal Policy Brief | 8 Dec 2009
Author: National Alliance to End Homelessness
Recommendation
Any new jobs bill should expand funding for HUD’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP) by $1 billion, to create 2,500 additional jobs in community agencies, provide temporary rent payments that will fund additional jobs in the housing industry, and stabilize housing for 200,000 additional homeless or near homeless families, giving them a fighting chance to become or remain employed.
This brief makes the following important points about HPRP:
- HUD efficiently set rules and distributed funding, which has in turn been distributed to local nonprofit organizations.
- Over 70 percent of cities say that HPRP will fundamentally change the way they provide services – and over half the remainder have already made the changes that HPRP supports.
- The program is also creating jobs.
- There is a near-universal observation that need is far exceeding existing funding for the program.
The brief concludes that the appropriate response is to increase funding for the HPRP program. It offers examples from over a dozen cities of how the money is being spent.
Click here to download the full brief.
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