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Spotlight On...
HUD and HHS Urge Providers to Help Homeless Families with HPRP and TANF Resources
Carmen R. Nazario and Mercedes Márquez, Assistant Secretaries in the Departments of Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development respectively, issued a joint letter urging colleagues to utilize Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP) and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) resources jointly to more effectively assist at-risk and homeless families. The official letter can be viewed on the Alliance website.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) also focuses on TANF and HPRP resources in a new paper examining how local communities are using short-term benefits and HPRP resources to prevent evictions and re-house families. The paper can be viewed on the CBPP website.
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Ann Oliva, Director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS), sent a message to HUD constituents reviewing the changes the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act makes to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. The message also describes the next step in the regulatory process of implementing the HEARTH Act, in which comments will be accepted on program requirements for the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG), Continuum of Care (CoC), and Rural Housing Stability programs. Finally, the announcement details the resources HUD will provide on the HEARTH Act, including online tools (webinars, a virtual help desk, etc.) and the HUD Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)/HEARTH Conferences in Denver and Atlanta this September. For more information on these conferences, please visit the conference website. This and future messages from the SNAPS office will be posted to the HEARTH portion of the HUD HRE website.
PTFA Passes Final Senate Hurdle
On July 14, the Senate passed the final version of H.R. 4173, more commonly known as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. While primarily focused on financial reform, the bill also included an extension of the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act (PTFA), which was set to expire, until 2014. The PTFA provides renters and voucher holders living in foreclosed properties with the right to stay in their unit through the end of their lease, or, absent a lease, for 90 days. The original PTFA was part of S. 896, the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, which also included the HEARTH Act.
Workshop materials, including speakers' PowerPoint presentations and handouts, will be posted to the Alliance website by August. Stay tuned for more information about the Alliance's family homelessness conference in February 2011!
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