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March 25, 2014      ISSUES   |   POLICY   |   SOLUTIONS   |   NEWS & EVENTS Forward Editor: Emanuel Cavallaro Spotlight On... Report: Decent Housing Out of Reach for Minimum Wage Workers Low-income renters continue to face a growing disparity between income and housing, according to the report "Out of Reach 2014," released by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) yesterday, March 24. In order to afford a decent two-bedroom rental home in 2014 at fair market rent (FMR) as estimated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), a worker must earn $18.92 an hour, NLIHC found in the report. That means that a one-bedroom or a two-bedroom rental unit at FMR is out of reach for full-time minimum wage workers in every state. Read the report Hill Update ...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Register Today: IDIS for CDBG Entitlement Grantees Training in Portland, OR The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Block Grant Assistance is pleased to announce that there will be 25 New CDBG IDIS trainings offered at HUD Field Offices in every Region between October 2013 through June 2014. Training for HOME IDIS will also be forthcoming and will require separate registration. Please note that only one individual per grantee will be allowed to register and attend a training session. Portland,...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Deadline for Submitting 2014 HIC and PIT Data HUD will open the HUD Homelessness Data Exchange (HDX) on Monday, April 1, 2014, for Continuums of Care (CoCs) to submit the 2014 Housing Inventory Count (HIC) and Point-in-Time (PIT) Count data and will post guidance and a pre-recorded webinar on the  OneCPD Resource Exchange  to discuss the data submission process. I. Submitting 2014 Data to HUD All CoCs must submit 2014 HIC and PIT data to HUD via HUD’s HDX . CoCs will be able to begin entering data on Tuesday, April 1, 20...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Individual Shared Responsibility Payment Under the Affordable Care Act, most people are required to have health insurance coverage by the end of the open enrollment period closing on March 31, 2014. Those who do not have health insurance coverage at that time will have to pay a fine known as the individual shared responsibility payment . The fine in 2014 is 1% of your yearly income, or $95 per person for the year, whichever is higher. The fine increases every year. In 2016 it will be 2.5% of income or $695 per person, whichev...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . OHH Monthly Focus on Employment: A Partnership Approach - Connecting with Mainstream Workforce Services  This monthly focus on employment, provided by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of HIV/AIDS Housing (OHH), describes how HIV/AIDS providers can take on a partnership approach to employment services and how they can successfully engage clients with mainstream workforce systems. Utilizing Collaborations to Improve Outcomes Developing, growing, and maintaining relationships can be a challenging and valuable...

SAMHSA Bulletin Date:  3/7/2014 10:00 AM Media Contact:  SAMHSA Press Office Telephone:  240-276-2130 SAMHSA is accepting applications for up to $30 million in grants to help people experiencing homelessness The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is accepting applications for fiscal year 2014 Grants for the Benefit of Homeless Individuals - Services in Supportive Housing (GBHI-SSH). The program’s purpose is to support the development and/or expansion of local implementation and community infrastructures that integrate treatment and services for substance use, co-occurring substance use and mental disorders, permanent housing, and other critical services for the following: veterans who experience homelessness or chronic homelessness, and other individuals (non-veterans) who experience chronic homelessness. SAMHSA expects that grants up to $400,000 will be provided each year for up to three years for up to 25 grantees. The ac...

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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Registration Reminder: Allocating Staff Costs Between Administrative and Activity Delivery Costs for CDBG Grantees Webinar - March 25 or 26, 2014 The Office of Block Grant Assistance will host the 90 minute Allocating Staff Costs Between Administrative and Activity Delivery Costs for CDBG Grantees Webinar. This webinar will be held on two days, please choose  one  of the following dates to attend: March 25, 2014 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT   Or March 26, 2014 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EDT This webinar is limited to 1,500 particip...

Montgomery County, PA, is hiring an HMIS Program Manager.  Below is the link for the job posting.  P http://www.montcopa.org/Jobs.aspx?UniqueId=124&From=All&CommunityJobs=False&JobID=Homeless-Management-Information-Systems--217 -- Paul Rossi Director, Client Services Foothold Technology p: 212.780.1450 x8004 e: paul@footholdtechnology.com Google Talk: paul@footholdtechnology.com