OBAMA ADMINISTRATION RENEWS SUPPORT FOR MORE THAN 500 LOCAL HOMELESS PROGRAMS ACROSS THE U.S.

[Cha]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan yesterday announced a second round of grants for more than 500 local homeless housing and service programs across the U.S, provided through HUD’s Continuum of Care Program. This year, HUD challenged local communities to reexamine their response to homelessness and give greater weight to proven strategies, from providing ‘rapid re-housing’ for homeless families to permanent supportive housing for those experiencing chronic homelessness (see attached chart).

The $72 million in grants announced today support a wide range of programs including street outreach, client assessment, and direct housing assistance. In March, HUD awarded more than $1.5 billion in a first round of grant funding to renew support for more than 7,000 other local programs. HUD will make a third round of funding to support selected new projects later this year.

In 2010, President Obama and 19 federal agencies and offices that form the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) launched the nation’s first comprehensive strategy to prevent and end homelessness. Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness puts the country on a path to end veterans and chronic homelessness by 2015 and to ending homelessness among children, family, and youth by 2020.

View a complete list of all the state and local homeless projects awarded funding. http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/comm_planning/homeless/budget/2012

http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2013/HUDNo.13-062

Good to see this.. thought BOGgers would like to know and anyone else who's interested.

BOG

[font color=red]FYI.. THIS IS POSTED IN THE BARACK OBAMA FORUM[/font]

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. Rec#5.

[Cha]

5. Wow, Tarheel! I was busy

posting about PBO in Mexico and come back to this!

Bueno, amiga!

[Skraxx]

2. He Sure Did, This Is Critical To The Programs I Run

Was very happy about this, very happy indeed. We will help a lot of people who really need it with this funding.

[Cha]

6. I'm so Happy for you all, too, Skraxx!

HUD doesn't have to go through greedy obstructionist gops for this one!

[freshwest]

16. And not covered in mainstream media, either. Thanks for the info.

[freshwest]

3. Rec #10.

[Cha]

7. Thanks freshwest!

Big ol smile for helping our Homeless among us!

[freshwest]

9. Glad he managed to get this. I have friends who are losing thousands of dollars in wages and other

things due to the Sequester, but they agree that the most needy are a national priority.

[Cha]

11. Ohhh, I know..

"the Sequester" is awful. Like I posted to Skraxx.. the Obama Admin doesn't have to go through the Plutocratic Koch Gops to get this DONE.

[morningfog]

4. Recommend.

[Cha]

8. Thank you, morningfog..

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

10. I work at HUD. We pushed HARD for these programs. The people who assert that Obama doesn't

care about the 99% and the poor...well, it's just plain WRONG!!

[Cha]

12. Thank you for pushing HARD, Liberal Stalwart!

You work at HUD, I am on HUD! So grateful!

[Skraxx]

13. Thanks!

[freshwest]

14. Those people only know what the media spins, but you know what's really going on. Thanks.

[rocktivity]

15. Programs that actually PUT THE HOMELESS INTO HOMES would be cool, too

along with jobs and wages that will allow them to keep, and perhaps eventually buy them. Why has that been beyond our reach?


rocktivity

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

17. We will continue to fight and work hard. People need to call their members of Congress.

Believe me, it works.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. No need to shout, even if the original article may have all caps. nt

[Cha]

19. Exactly, the way the OP was POSTED.

That's all you have to say about this good news?

[chillfactor]

29. good grief! it IS worth shouting about..

the thousands of people who will be helped with this grant money and all you do is critisize the caps?

[Hekate]

20. Terrific news. Thanks Cha!

and Rec.

[Cha]

22. Mahalo, Hekate!~

[sheshe2]

21. Great News to come home to,Cha!

I love the fact, that this President was able to get something good done!!! Glad HUD and the President didn't need to go through our do nothing House GOP.

Well done!

BOG

[Cha]

23. Yes, sheshe!

The Obama Admin is actually Helping our Homeless and have been since their goal in 2010..

In 2010, President Obama and 19 federal agencies and offices that form the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) launched the nation’s first comprehensive strategy to prevent and end homelessness. Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness puts the country on a path to end veterans and chronic homelessness by 2015 and to ending homelessness among children, family, and youth by 2020.

Great to get an update on their ongoing "Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness that puts the country on a path to end verterans and chronic homelessness by 2015 and to ending homelessness among children, family, and youth by 2020."

There will always be people who prefer living outdoors but for those who don't want it .. this is so encouraging!

BOG

[sheshe2]

24. This is Simply Beautiful!

country on a path to end veterans and chronic homelessness by 2015 and to ending homelessness among children, family, and youth by 2020.

This is what America is all about!

Thanks Cha!

[asjr]

25. I had not heard about this. It is good news! I am sure

the great liberal media will be right on it!

[Cha]

27. Yes, I'm sure Infortainment, Celebrity Obsessed "news"..

will be all over this, asjr!

[Nika]

26. I love to see this

I am a veteran living in section 8 housing with no job. I'm taking online classes and will be going in a job training program to get skills for a survival type job I've never done.

Far from not wanting to work, most of us in our 50s and 60s still want to work and contribute. I am glad I am housed. It gives me a base to keep alive in as I work to get back into the job force. If I wasn't housed, just surviving would be all I'd be working at doing. That would suck.

[Cha]

28. Our homes are our shelters and sanctuaries, Nika.. it's sooo

Important to have a place where we can work out from or in my case be retired.

Good Luck with your classes and job training and then.. the search for your job. Sounds like you have a Solid Plan!

[LeftInTX]

30. Great news, Cha - Glad you posted this!

Otherwise, I would not have know myself.

[Cha]

31. That's right, LeftInTx.. not getting much play in the mainstream news..

Glad you saw it.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

32. Rec # 42!!!!

[Cha]

33. Thank you, Lady Freedom Returns..

The more the merrier!

Actuallly, it's good to know this is happening.. don't know of too many other places you're going to see news like this except the HUD portal, the obama diary, and the BOG.

So much bad news, fake news, and more fake news is covered everywhere else.

[Politicub]

34. +1 - These programs are vitally important for a lot of people

[Cha]

35. Yes, and hopefully we can attain our goal of getting rid of Homelessness

altogether by 2015! Oh darn, that means continued Democratic Presidents and hopefully a Congress. So we can other stuff done too!

In 2010, President Obama and 19 federal agencies and offices that form the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) launched the nation’s first comprehensive strategy to prevent and end homelessness. Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness puts the country on a path to end veterans and chronic homelessness by 2015 and to ending homelessness among children, family, and youth by 2020.