Alerts
Making McKinney-Vento Work for
All Homeless Persons
New paper outlines principles for McKinney-Vento
Program policy and reauthorization. Sign on today!
Over the past few years, HUD's design of the
annual Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) has increasingly undermined local
control and effectively legislated through the rule-making process. Unable
to successfully move the Samaritan Initiative through the 108th Congress,
the Administration, via HUD and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
(ICH), has now aggressively moved to impose the emphasis on "ending chronic
homelessness" on localities, rather than allow communities to determine
their own priorities based on actual need. Two current pieces of McKinney-Vento
reauthorization legislation- S. 1801 and H.R. 5041- propose to write much
of this current policy into statute.
Numerous national, state, and local organizations
have joined together to issue the following set of principles that we believe
must form the basis of any reauthorization measure. Included in this coalition
are faith-based and community-based human needs organizations, public school
personnel, state and local child welfare agencies, health care providers,
social justice advocacy coalitions, and concerned individual citizens. Collectively,
our members serve or represent every segment of the homeless population -
including infants and toddlers, school-age children, youth in runaway and
homeless situations, families fleeing domestic violence, persons with disabilities,
and low-income working individuals and families. We ask you to read the following
statement, share it with your community, and considering adding your organization
to the list of endorsers.
To read the new paper, and to see a list of current
organizations signed on.
To sign on, please email Matt Achhammer,
with your organization's information.
Immediate
action needed on HUD McKinney-Vento Funding
The
President’s FY 2007 budget includes a proposal to add
$184 million to HUD’s Homeless Assistance Grant program.
These funds would be earmarked for the “Samaritan
Permanent Housing Bonus,” a currently unauthorized
program that would provide permanent housing and case
management services for the long-term or “chronic”
homeless population – defined as ‘single adults
with disabilities who have been homeless for over a year, or
at least four times over a three year period.’ We
urge Members of Congress to support the proposed funding
increase, while opposing the manner in which it is earmarked.
Please download the entire action alert here and contact your members of Congress,
asking them to support proposed funding increase but to
oppose the language that would earmark these funds for the
Samaritan Housing Bonus. Call the US Capitol Switchboard to
be connected to your Senator or Representative: (202)
224-3121. Or, if submitting a written request it is best to
fax letters to your Members. Fax numbers for House offices
may be found and fax numbers for Senate offices may
be found.
Alerts from our
partners:
Check back often for
action alerts from our partners!
Making McKinney-Vento Work for
All Homeless Persons
New paper outlines principles for McKinney-Vento
Program policy and reauthorization. Sign on today!
Over the past few years, HUD's design of the
annual Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) has increasingly undermined local
control and effectively legislated through the rule-making process. Unable
to successfully move the Samaritan Initiative through the 108th Congress,
the Administration, via HUD and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
(ICH), has now aggressively moved to impose the emphasis on "ending chronic
homelessness" on localities, rather than allow communities to determine
their own priorities based on actual need. Two current pieces of McKinney-Vento
reauthorization legislation- S. 1801 and H.R. 5041- propose to write much
of this current policy into statute.
Numerous national, state, and local organizations
have joined together to issue the following set of principles that we believe
must form the basis of any reauthorization measure. Included in this coalition
are faith-based and community-based human needs organizations, public school
personnel, state and local child welfare agencies, health care providers,
social justice advocacy coalitions, and concerned individual citizens. Collectively,
our members serve or represent every segment of the homeless population -
including infants and toddlers, school-age children, youth in runaway and
homeless situations, families fleeing domestic violence, persons with disabilities,
and low-income working individuals and families. We ask you to read the following
statement, share it with your community, and considering adding your organization
to the list of endorsers.
To read the new paper, and to see a list of current
organizations signed on.
To sign on, please email Matt Achhammer,
with your organization's information.
Immediate
action needed on HUD McKinney-Vento Funding
The
President’s FY 2007 budget includes a proposal to add
$184 million to HUD’s Homeless Assistance Grant program.
These funds would be earmarked for the “Samaritan
Permanent Housing Bonus,” a currently unauthorized
program that would provide permanent housing and case
management services for the long-term or “chronic”
homeless population – defined as ‘single adults
with disabilities who have been homeless for over a year, or
at least four times over a three year period.’ We
urge Members of Congress to support the proposed funding
increase, while opposing the manner in which it is earmarked.
Please download the entire action alert here and contact your members of Congress,
asking them to support proposed funding increase but to
oppose the language that would earmark these funds for the
Samaritan Housing Bonus. Call the US Capitol Switchboard to
be connected to your Senator or Representative: (202)
224-3121. Or, if submitting a written request it is best to
fax letters to your Members. Fax numbers for House offices
may be found and fax numbers for Senate offices may
be found.
Alerts from our
partners:
Check back often for
action alerts from our partners!