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08.05.2013
The Network has launched a new initiative to highlight the direct effects of sequestration on homeless, low-income and working class Americans. Visit our Sequestration Stories page for a regularly-updated listing of news stories on this pressing issue
We're calling on our members to help raise awareness of the real, tangible effects of sequestration. If your program and your tenants have been impacted in any way by budget cuts related to the sequester, please contact us to have your story featured on our Sequestration Stories page. We will also highlight your stories -- preserving anonymity, if you prefer -- in meetings with elected officials who have the power to end the sequester.
We will also continue to highlight the impacts of sequestration on Twitter using the hashtag #SequestrationStories. We urge you to share your personal stories relating to sequestration, along with published news articles, using this hashtag.
The supportive housing community did not feel the immediate effects of sequestration, but we're beginning to now and at an increasing rate. There was an initial delay as local public housing authorities (PHAs) scrambled to devise and initiate plans that caused the least amount of harm in their communities. Over the last couple months, as the PHAs have had their Section 8 frozen, one depressing story after another has risen to the surface.
Continue Reading …08.02.2013
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced the remainder of its 2012 funding awards for new Continuum of Care (CoC) homeless assistance grant programs. In all, HUD awarded New York State $2,021,191 for 18 new programs. This amount includes 10 planning contracts totaling $766,726 to assist communities in the process of developing their Continuum of Care in line with the new requirements of the HEARTH Act, including strategic planning, oversight and monitoring.
The other eight projects, totaling $1,254,465, will go to fund new permanent housing units. While this will yield a few hundred new units of homeless housing, many of these new programs were funded through a reallocation process, at the expense of closing or reducing another program. It is also but a drop in the bucket with an estimated 70,000 homeless people now in New York State.
Click here to read the full list of awardees.
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