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Captialize the National Housing Trust Fund. Provide vouchers to make the units affordable. And build the capacity on nonprofit organizations to do the development in both urban and rural areas.
Allan Timke
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kozmikat
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make sure that enough units are built efficiently to utilize funding to meet the need in terms of numbers of homeless. instead of housing a few at a higher cost per unit as currently done. keep the housing available to the lowest incomes and homeless/ at risk. Exclude those above 50% AMI from new units/ vouchers because of limited funds. treat the situation as a housing emergency and get emergency units created. Stop removing low income subsidized units from the housing stock.
CHANGE ALL HOUSING AUTHORITY REGULATIONS TO ALLOW HOMELESS FAMILY MEMBERS TO MOVE IN WITH EXISTING VOUCHER RECIPIENTS on an emergency basis. THIS ALLOWS HOUSING THEM WITHOUT HAVING TO ALLOCATE MORE VOUCHERS.
***THIS WILL CAUSE MORE ACCURATE NUMBERS TO BE COUNTED ON CENSUS, IF DONE BEFORE APRIL 1ST AND RECIPIENTS NOTIFIED OF THE CHANGE.
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Fred Berman
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Although disabling conditions intensify the challenge of economic independence and complicate the pathway out of homelessness, there are other reasons that individuals become and remain homelessness.
At its essence, homelessness is the inability to sustain housing. To the extent that they are unable to earn and sustain a housing wage, and to the extent that they lack family and friends who can assist them in paying for or sustaining housing, individuals are at real and immediate risk of homelessness, whether or not they have a disabling condition.
In an effort to correct a homeless services system that historically ignored or under-served persons with disabilities, we have shaped a system that offers little or no support for persons without apparent disabilities. How many times have case managers heard homeless clients complain that their reward for NOT having a substance abuse problem or a mental health problem is that they aren't eligible for assistance?
An economy that demands stronger literacy and numeracy, higher education, and more sophisticated work skills than thousands of Americans have, will inevitably produce an underclass of adults who are either unemployed or who work at jobs that leave them unable to afford housing and basic needs.
As has been well documented, the supply of SRO housing that once served men (and to a lesser extent, women) with extremely limited incomes is greatly diminished. New SROs are often developed with HUD funding to provide permanent supported housing for persons with disabilities, and so, are not available to persons without a qualifying disability. If we cannot figure out how to include more people in our economy at economically sustainable wages, we need to figure out how to produce and maintain housing that is affordable to persons with extremely limited incomes. And we need to find a way to help such individuals climb out of homelessness when economic circumstances pull the rug out from under them.
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McKinney Strat Comm
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I recommend that the following federal agencies coordinate their efforts on the federal level and create a single multi-systemic/multi-agency NOFA to end homelessness:
HUD to ensure that affordable housing is available and perhaps on a time delimited basis
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phenomina
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although yes nonprofits can do the work, there is currently a serious mishandling of funding going down. In my state at least, (oregon), maybe others, huge amounts (100 million or so for 2 projects) are being squandered by the entities involved. too much middleman and it only produces about 150 new units! when better plans are available. The "partnering" of these nonprofits and government has sucked out all the funding for themselves, leaving only a tiny residue that actually gets used for housing. This is absolutely anathema and must be immediately stopped. Creating only 150 +/- new units for $100,000,000 in a city that has several thousand homeless and no place to put them, is absolutely diabolical, not to be tolerated. This is waste and abuse. There must be better oversight and accountability as to how the funding is used, it MUST go to HOUSING FIRST AND THE MOST NUMBER OF UNITS as no amount of supportive services will save people who don't have a roof over their head.
