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Spotlight On...
2012 National Conference on Ending Homelessness Tentative Agenda Available
A tentative agenda has been released for the 2012 National Conference on Ending Homelessness. Workshop topics include Re-tooling Your Transitional Housing Program, Rapid Re-Housing for Survivors of Domestic Violence, Health Care Reform and New Strategies to Address Chronic Homelessness, and Improving the Crisis Response for Youth, among many others. The 2012 National Conference on Ending Homelessness will be held at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel in Washington, DC from July 16 to July 18, 2012. Please note that discounted tickets to the Alliance's 22nd Annual Awards Ceremony are available to conference registrants when purchased with registration for the conference online.
Read the Conference Agenda
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Hill Update
Senate Marks Up HUD Funding Bill
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies (T-HUD) is scheduled to mark up its fiscal year (FY) 2013 appropriations bill today. The bill will cover all HUD accounts, including funding for affordable housing and homelessness programs, such as the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants. The full details of the bill, including program-level funding, are likely to be released when the full Senate Appropriations Committee marks up the bill Thursday, April 18. The Senate is also expected to release its 302(b) allocations this week, which are the amounts that each Appropriations Subcommittee will have to spend on the programs under its purview. These allocations will determine the amount that each individual program will receive. The House has not yet announced the date of its appropriations mark ups, though they are anticipated in the coming weeks.
Senate Banking Committee Weighs in to Appropriations Committee
On Thursday, March 29, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs sent a Views & Estimates letter to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on T-HUD. Views & Estimates letter are sent by the Authorizing Committees in the House and Senate to the Appropriations Committees at the beginning of the appropriations process each year. They outline the programs within their purview and include recommendations to the appropriators based on the committee members' own knowledge of the effectiveness of each program. The Banking Committee's Chairman, Tim Johnson (D-SD), spoke favorably of many HUD housing and community development programs and recommended funding HUD programs at the levels requested by the President, including "full and robust" funding for the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants.
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