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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Register Today: IDIS for CDBG Grantees Training - Fort Worth, TX; Seattle, WA; and Portland, OR The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Block Grant Assistance is pleased to announce a series of eight Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS) training sessions this Fall for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) grantees. These sessions will provide CDBG grantees with hands-on training on the IDIS system, including recent updates. These sessions will specifically focus on CDBG requirements, screens, reporting, ...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Improving Our Understanding of Youth Experiencing Homelessness HUD and its federal partners have agreed to establish 2017 as the baseline year for measuring progress in ending youth homelessness in the context of the Point-in-Time (PIT) count. How many homeless youth are there? HUD has been working with its federal partners, including the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the U.S. Department of Education (ED), to better understand how many youth experience homelessness nationally and...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . CoC Competition Focus: Ending Veteran Homelessness Since 2010, the number of veterans experiencing homelessness has been cut nearly in half to just under 40,000 veterans, with 13,000 living in unsheltered locations. To date, 2 states and 29 communities have effectively ended homelessness amongst veterans. This Competition Focus message provides information and resources to help Continuums of Care (CoCs) and stakeholders understand the FY 2016 policy priority ending veteran homelessness . Continue Work Towards Meeting and Sustaining the Goal Ending ve...