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Spotlight On...
New Webinar from the Alliance and USICH
The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) will co-host a webinar with the Alliance on Thursday, September 22 from 2:00 to 3:15 p.m. ET entitled, HUD CoC Competition: Why Communities Should Be Thinking About Reallocation. This webinar is designed to help communities transition their Continuum of Care programs through reallocation to achieve better community performance and reduce homelessness.
Register for the Webinar.
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Hill Update
Senate Marks Up T-HUD Funding Bill
This morning, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Affairs (T-HUD) marked up the fiscal year (FY) 2012 funding bill. This bill includes funding for many homeless and low-income housing assistance programs. The Senate Subcommittee proposed funding key programs at the following levels:
- McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants: $1.9 billion (flat funding compared to FY 2011), including $286 million for the Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) program;
- Section 8 Tenant-Based Rental Assistance: $18.9 billion ($501 million increase), including $75 million for HUD-VA Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) vouchers;
- Project-Based Rental Assistance: $9.4 billion ($161 million increase);
- Public Housing Capital Fund: $1.9 billion ($165 decrease);
- Community Development Block Grant: $2.85 billion ($485 million decrease);
- HOME Investment Partnership: $1 billion ($607 million decrease); and
- Choice Neighborhoods Initiative: $120 million ($55 million increase).
In addition, the bill included $5 million for a Homeless Demonstration Program. Also this afternoon, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (L-HHS) marked up its FY 2012 funding bill, which included $14.6 million for a new initiative targeting mental health and substance abuse treatment services to homeless and at-risk families. This initiative, in collaboration with HUD, aims to provide permanent supportive housing to those who experience chronic, long-term homelessness. No further details of these two initiatives are available at this time, but please continue to monitor the Alliance Online News for further information. The full Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to mark up both pieces of legislation tomorrow, September 21.
Congress Begins Work on Stopgap Funding Measure
This week, the House is expected to consider a stopgap funding measure, or Continuing Resolution (CR), to keep the government running beyond the end of the fiscal year, September 30. This CR will give the House and Senate more time to complete their work on appropriations measures and then come to a final compromise for funding levels for all government programs, including homelessness and low-income housing programs. The CR would fund the government through November 18, by which time Congress will have to complete its regular appropriations process or pass another CR to fund the government for fiscal year (FY) 2012.
Senate Marks Up CJS Appropriations Bill
Last Thursday, September 15, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed its FY 2012 Commerce, Justice, and Science funding bill, which includes funding for programs related to prisoner re-entry and juvenile justice. The subcommittee proposed the following funding levels for key Department of Justice programs:
- No Funding for the Second Chance Prisoner Reentry Program, which received $83 million in FY 2011;
- $25 million for Transitional Housing for Victims of Domestic Violence, which represents level funding from FY 2011;
- $30 million for the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant, which is $15 million below the FY 2011 level; and
- $55 million for the Youth Mentoring Grants, which is $45 million below the FY 2011 level.
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