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From the San Diego Housing Commission's press release:
Continuing collaborative efforts to create additional permanent affordable homes with supportive services for people experiencing homelessness, the San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) has applied for up to $23 million from the state Homekey...
From Home Forward's press release:
Home Forward, in partnership with Urban League of Portland, celebrated the groundbreaking of the Fairfield Apartments in downtown Portland on June 29. Fairfield Apartments will be a permanent supportive housing development for people exiting chronic...
HUD has published Notice PIH 2023-13, which supersedes PIH Notice 2013-15, and provides PHAs with strategies to use HCVs while working with CoCs to prevent homelessness.
Specifically, this notice:
Revises the definition of homelessness for the purpose of reporting in IMS...
Los Angeles’s new Mayor Karen Bass won on a platform of ending homelessness in the nation’s second largest city. Immediately after assuming office, she proclaimed a state of emergency, thereby unlocking untapped funding and resources. According to media coverage, Mayor Bass succeeded in housing 945...
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has declared a state of emergency on homelessness in the city. Host Jeffery K. Patterson sits down with the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) President and CEO Doug Guthrie and CLPHA Executive Director Sunia Zaterman to discuss why homelessness has...
From HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research (PD&R):
In 2017, HUD awarded $33 million to 10 Continuums of Care (CoCs) in Round 1 of its Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) to develop and implement coordinated community approaches to preventing and ending homelessness of...
From the San Diego Union Tribune:
The city of San Diego’s first homeless shelter focused on youths who identify as LGBTQ could open sometime this year in one or two interim locations before a permanent site is located.
The San Diego Housing Commission on Thursday selected the LGBT Community...
18 Members Invited to Accept Stability Voucher Awards
Today, HUD announced a second round of CoC grants and Stability Vouchers to communities to address unsheltered homelessness, adding to the first set of grant awards announced in February. The awards include $171.2 million in grants for 115...
On April 10, HUD announced funding for 11,000 new HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) vouchers. In 2022, HUD awarded $25 million in HUD-VASH funding to interested PHAs. This year, HUD is making $94.4 million available in VASH funding under PIH Notice 2023-09. According to the Notice,...
From an op ed in The Oklahoman written by Mark Gillett, executive director of the Oklahoma City Housing Authority, and Dan Straughan, Terri White, Jennifer Goodrich:
Our city is on the cusp of an investment that will change the lives and futures of thousands of people. Oklahoma City has over...