Alliance Online News: New HPRP Report

Newsletters | 2 Mar 2010

Author: National Alliance to End Homelessness

March 2, 2010

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Alliance Releases First Quarterly Leadership Council HPRP Report

Today, in conjunction with a group of cities from across the country, the Alliance released its first "Quarterly Leadership Council HPRP Report." The report examines how 11 cities across the nation are spending their Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP) funds, as well as the results of their January 2009 point-in-time counts. The report concludes that family homelessness is up 6 percent across the 11 communities. As of December 31, 2009, the communities had used HPRP funds to create 505 full-time jobs and had spent $10.4 million, or just over 6 percent of their total grant allocation.

The report also examines allocation between prevention and rapid re-housing across the communities. It also includes data on the proportion of projected households already served through both rapid re-housing and prevention funds.

Data submitted to the federal government for October to December 2009 provides the basis for the report. It includes data from Chicago, IL; Columbus, OH; Denver, CO; Houston/Harris County, TX; Miami-Dade County, FL; Minneapolis/Hennepin County, MN; New York, NY: Philadelphia, PA; Portland, OR; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle, WA.

Quarterly Leadership Council HPRP Report

USICH Collects Stakeholder Input on Federal Plan to End Homelessness

The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) has announced new efforts to solicit suggestions and ideas for the Federal Strategic Plan to End Homelessness. The Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act, which reauthorized the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grant program, directed USICH to deliver a Federal Strategic Plan to Congress by May 20. As a follow-up to their town-hall style meetings in communities across the country to collect input, the Council has created an online forum, USICH Preventing and Ending Homelessness, to solicit feedback. This website allows stakeholders and concerned citizens to voice their views about what should be included in the Federal Strategic Plan to End Homelessness. Users are able to vote on submitted ideas, and USICH staff will keep track of the most popular suggestions. To submit an idea, please visit the website.

Click here to read the Alliance's recommendations for the Federal Strategic Plan.

USICH Preventing and Ending Homelessness Website

Alliance to Host Webinar on Moving to a Rapid Re-Housing System

On Thursday, March 18 at 3:30 pm ET, the Alliance will host a webinar to discuss the rapid re-housing system in Trenton/Mercer County, NJ. The presentation will include an overview of their vision for ending homelessness, the strategies they developed to reduce homelessness, and how they are using both Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP) funds and other funding streams to create a comprehensive Housing First system. The speakers will also present information about building political will to move to a rapid re-housing system, performing targeting and assessment, and leveraging TANF resources to serve homeless families. Speakers will include Herb Levine and Rebecca Rhoads of the Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness and Sue Ruckman of the Mercer County Board of Social Services.

Hill Update

Secretary Donavan Appears Before House T-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee
On February 23, the House Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (T-HUD) Appropriations Subcommittee held a hearing on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 budget. Shaun Donovan, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, testified at the hearing. The Senate T-HUD Subcommittee was also scheduled to hold a hearing last week, but it was postponed. The House and Senate will continue hearings on the President's FY 2011 Budget Proposal until a budget resolution is drawn up. The House and Senate will then have to approve a budget resolution, which will help guide Congress as it goes through the budget and appropriations process and sets spending levels for specific programs.

Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Mark-Up on Hate Crimes Against Homeless Bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a mark-up of S. 1765, a bill that would amend the Hate Crime Statistics Act to include crimes against people experiencing homelessness. Senator Benjamin Cardin (DMD) introduced the legislation in October. The legislation now awaits approval from the Committee. Its companion bill in the House, H.R. 3419, is still pending before the House Judiciary Committee.

Winter 2010 Quarterly Research Newsletter Published

Last week, the Alliance's Homelessness Research Institute (HRI) sent out the Winter 2010 edition of the Quarterly Research Newsletter. This issue focuses on homelessness among unaccompanied youth, providing a brief review of research around numbers of and outcomes for homeless youth. The newsletter features an Expert Q&A with Dr. Paul Toro, Professor of Psychology at Wayne State University and member of the Alliance's Research Council, who responds to questions about youth homelessness and about high overall homeless rates in Detroit. The newsletter also includes an update on the recent findings of HUD's "Homelessness Pulse Project," as well as the regular research newsletter features: Interactive Map and By the Numbers. If you are not currently receiving the Quarterly Research Newsletter and would like to do so, please click

here to add "Research Newsletter - Quarterly" as one of your e-mail subscriptions from the Alliance.

Winter 2010 Quarterly Research Newsletter

Urban Institute Releases Paper on Public Housing

The Urban Institute recently released a paper about providing case management for households in public housing. The paper, entitled Inclusive Public Housing: Services for the Hard to House, examines how intensive case management is being used to support households in public housing in Chicago who are expected to transition to new housing units. As the Chicago Public Housing Agency moved to demolish large public housing developments, many households moved into new mixed-income developments or received vouchers and moved into housing in the community. The Urban Institute's paper reviews how the Chicago Case Management Model provides intensive case management services and a broader array of support services to households and follows them as they transition to new housing. The authors propose a typology of the households that they suggest could be used to tailor and target more intensive services. The Urban Institute is also planning to host an

audio webcast on Thursday, March 11 on this topic.

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NHC to Host Budget Forum

On March 12 from 9:30 to 11:30 am ET, the National Housing Conference (NHC) will hold its Annual Budget Forum in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, DC. The forum provides leaders in both public and private-sector housing organizations with an in-depth first look at housing concerns in the federal budget. This year's event will feature discussion of rental housing and homelessness programs in the President's FY 2011 Budget Proposal. Alliance President Nan Roman will be among the panelists for this year's event. She will be joined by Jonathan Harwitz of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Sheila Crowley of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, and Sarah Wartell from the Center for American Progress.

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Alliance Online News: New HPRP Report

Newsletters | 2 Mar 2010

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