Alliance Online News: HUD Publishes List of Housing Trust Fund Grantees

Alliance Online News View in browser www.endhomelessness.org Tuesday, April 14, 2015 spotlight on... HUD Publishes List of National Housing Trust Fund Grantees Yesterday, April 13, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) posted a list of states that it has designated as grantees of the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF), a newly funded federal housing program designed to address the shortage of affordable rental housing units available to extremely low income households. As of this writing, the list contains six grantees that HUD designated in fiscal year (FY) 2015. The list will be updated as HUD receives notifications from states of their intent to become grantees. To receive the funding, states are required to notify HUD within 30 days of the publication of the program’s formula allocation amounts, which HUD is expected to publish by April 2016. List of grantees, instructions for notifying HUD » Report: A Vision for The Future Of The National Housing Trust Fund The Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC) and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) released a report last week outlining how states can use the National Housing Trust Fund to create permanent supportive housing opportunities for extremely low income households and persons with disabilities. The report, "Creating New Integrated Permanent Supportive Housing Opportunities For ELI Households: A Vision For The Future Of The National Housing Trust Fund," highlights innovative financing policies from Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Illinois state housing agencies that other states can use to administer NHTF funds. Read the report » Job Opportunities at the Alliance The Alliance is currently seeking qualified applicants for several open positions on the Alliance staff. For job descriptions and instructions on how to apply, see the job opportunities page of the Alliance website. Positions include: Development Coordinator Director of Communications Research Fellow Program & Policy Internship Development Intern from the blog Ending Homelessness Today the official blog of the national alliance to end homelessness Ending Veteran Homelessness Step One: Creating a Master List by Kate Seif In order to house your homeless veterans in your community, you need to know who they are. That’s why creating a master list of homeless veterans in your community is step one on our 5 Steps to Ending Veteran Homelessness. Creating a comprehensive list of homeless veterans in your community may sound daunting, but it could be easier than you think. With coordinated assessment, regular and continuous outreach, and working with all your partners, your Continuum of Care should be able to create and maintain a list of veterans in your community who need to be housed. Here’s what we say in the 5 Steps. Read more » comments » | The State of Homelessness in America 2015: Looking at the Big Picture by Liza Doran If you’re a leader of a Continuum of Care (CoC), you likely know how many people are homeless and how many beds for homeless people there are in your community. If you’re a homelessness service provider, I bet you have a pretty good idea of how many people you serve in your program, and how these numbers have changed over the past few years. And if you’re a concerned citizen, I’m sure you are aware when you see an unsheltered homeless person sleeping on the street or in the park. Each of these experiences is a small part of the larger picture of homelessness in a state and in America. So when we add it all up, what trends do we see? Read more » comments » | Thank You, Advocates! You Generated Strong Congressional Support for Homeless Programs by Julie Klein If you receive the Alliance’s advocacy alerts, you might recall that not long ago members of Congress were circulating “Dear Colleague” letters in the House and Senate. These letters give members of Congress the opportunity to publicly sign on in support of robust funding levels for programs that they believe should be national priorities. The Dear Colleague letters circulating in congress that were of most interest to us, of course, were letters in support of increased funding levels for homeless assistance and affordable housing programs. Read more » comments » |