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The Biden-Harris Administration announced a series of measures to address homelessness across the country, reaffirming the Administration’s commitment to ensuring all Americans have access to safe, stable housing.
ALT New Biden-Harris Administration Actions to Reduce Homelessness 1. HUD announced the expansion of the Housing and Services Partnership Accelerator, a joint effort with HHS to strengthen coordination between housing and service providers 2. In collaboration with HHS and GSA, HUD unveiled new resources under Title V to repurpose federal properties for affordable housing and homeless assistance 3. HUD awarded $39.8 million through the HUD-VASH program to provide rental assistance and supportive services to combat veteran homelessness
How can health systems and hospitals help solve homelessness? Join @USICHgov and @aboutKP for a webinar on recent federal guidance and effective strategies for collaborative and compassionate care for people experiencing homelessness.
Register today: housingforhealthevents.com/u…
NEWS: Veteran homelessness has dropped to its lowest level on record—from 35,574 to 32,882—which represents a 7.5% drop since last year, 11.7% drop since 2020, and 55.6% drop since 2010.
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Have you read the latest USICH newsletter? conta.cc/3YChSpp Click to read about:
➡️ USICH's new National Youth Homelessness Partnership
➡️ Local and federal efforts to prevent families from losing their homes
➡️ How people without a permanent address can vote
"There’s a lot of work helping end homelessness once people are already there...it’s just as important to focus on prevention." - USICH Director Olivet on the federal government's first-ever prevention framework
Read (or listen) to the full interview:
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"Policies & decisionmaking are stronger when those who have experienced challenges firsthand can lead" - ED @SecCardona
That's why USICH's new National Youth Homelessness Partnership elevates youth w/ lived expertise in efforts to end homelessness: tinyurl.com/44pnnuw3
Almost 3/10 people experiencing homelessness in 2023 were children w/ a parent. This new blog in our prevention series explores how the federal government & communities are strengthening safety nets to prevent families from ever experiencing homelessness: usich.gov/news-events/news/h…
In Hurricane Helene's wake, @HUDgov announced $3M to help people in North Carolina experiencing or at risk of homelessness whose needs are not fully met by other federal disaster relief programs.
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Have you read the latest USICH newsletter? conta.cc/3XZN9B5
Click 👇 to read about:
➡️ Interrupting the jail-to-homelessness pipeline
➡️ Online training for Californians implementing the state's "Housing First" law
➡️ Available $$ to address youth homelessness
Last month, @HUDgov awarded $15.4M to help young adults transitioning out of foster care and experiencing or at risk of homelessness—and more funding is still available.
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Between October and August, @DeptVetAffairs helped house 43,116 veterans experiencing homelessness, and 96% of them remain housed. "We won’t rest until every veteran has a safe, stable, accessible and affordable home to call their own.” - @SecVetAffairs
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Every year, 50,000+ Americans are released from jail/prison and have nowhere to go but streets or shelters. To end homelessness, we must close the justice system's revolving door to/from it. This new blog focuses on local/federal efforts to do just that: tinyurl.com/2585mb8x
USICH just launched a new blog series on local and federal efforts to prevent homelessness long before it starts. The first focuses on youth and on the foster-care system, which nearly 1/3 of youth experiencing homelessness have been in.
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Homelessness is deadly—but preventable. Today, USICH is releasing the first federal framework to stop homelessness before it starts: tinyurl.com/2w7f9x3c
This isn’t just a housing crisis. We need every community and many systems working together to help prevent and end it.
Have you read the latest USICH newsletter? conta.cc/3XmDrZc Click to read about:
➡️ Federal resources for addressing mental health and substance use needs of people experiencing or at risk of homelessness
➡️ Disaster recovery funding
➡️ Voting without a permanent address
Climate change is a growing cause of homelessness.
@HUDgov recently deployed RUSH funding to help people in Iowa avoid or overcome homelessness after extreme storms, flooding, and tornadoes in May.
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NEW USICH GUIDANCE
Do you know *all* of the federal funding, technical assistance, policy and regulatory flexibilities available to address mental health and/or substance use for people experiencing homelessness Click to see: usich.gov/guidance-reports-d…
Domestic violence is a leading cause of homelessness for families.
Today, on the 30th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act, the Biden-Harris administration issued an interagency statement to affirm housing protections for survivors.
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Have you read USICH's latest newsletter conta.cc/4cK8vrp Click to read more about:
➡️ Updated housing voucher rules from @HUDgov
➡️ Disaster recovery funding for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness
...and so much more
Last month, @DeptVetAffairs awarded a total of $806.4M for two programs that help veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness: Supportive Services for Veteran Families and the Grant and Per Diem Program.
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