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December 23, 2014      ISSUES   |   POLICY   |   SOLUTIONS   |   NEWS & EVENTS Forward Editor: Emanuel Cavallaro Spotlight On... FHFA Directs Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to Fund Housing Trust Fund Earlier this month, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to begin allocating funds to the Housing Trust Fund and the Capital Magnet Fund, affordable housing programs meant to increase and preserve the nation's stock of affordable housing for low-income households. The contributions by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to these programs, which were originally established in 2008 with the Housing and Economic Recovery Act and signed into law by President George W. Bush, had been temporarily suspended on the basis that allocating funds to the programs would contribute to their financial instability...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . HUD Releases Point-in-Time Mobile Application HUD has released a Point-in-Time (PIT) mobile app to assist communities with conducting their 2015 PIT counts. This tool is completely optional but HUD encourages communities to take advantage of it to facilitate an effective count. Communities choosing to use the mobile app can experience a more effective way of collecting data by allowing electronic, real-time data collection and quality assessment. Data collected through the mobile app can be more consistent and more easily integrated with HMIS data for analys...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . SNAPS and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) Encourage CoCs to Work with their Local Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) Grantees to Help Them Begin to Use HMIS As stated in the October 14, 2014  SNAPS In Focus: Youth Homelessness message from Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs, Ann Oliva, HUD recognizes that youth have unique developmental needs and our approach to youth homelessness has to do a better job taking these into account. This is true for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban D...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Confirming Your 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) Data Submission Congratulations to all communities that participated in the 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR). Your data contributes to the nation's understanding of homelessness in America and informs federal policy to prevent and end it. To complete the data submission process, the Continuum of Care (CoC) Primary Contact (assigned in the HDX admin tab) for each community must click the "Confirm" button in HDX. The button must be clicked for both All Persons and Veterans...

--> Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your browser . NIDA Seeks Input on 2016–2020 Strategic Plan The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is revitalizing its Strategic Plan to provide a framework for the research it will support over the next 5 years. On December 10, NIDA released a Request for Information (RFI) to seek broad public input on the research priorities to include in the plan. NIDA published the current NIDA Strategic Plan in 2010. Since that time, the science of drug abuse and addiction has seen major advances. Therefore, the Institute recently started a planning process to develop a revitalized Strategic Plan for 2016–2020. NIDA seeks to harness the latest research technologies and apply them to the ever-evolving substance abuse landscape. NIDA invites input from researchers in academia and industry, health care profe...