The FY 2017 Continuum of Care (CoC) NOFA competition has opened. Building on our last CoC NOFA webinar on how communities can use this year’s CoC NOFA to drive long-term change to improve their systems, we’ll take a look at […]
Written by Guest blogger, Tara Maguire, National Initiative on Policy and Economic Opportunity at the Heartland Alliance The scale of family homelessness demands attention. As a new paper about integrating rapid re-housing and employment from my team at Heartland Alliance’s […]
Each year, Congress passes a budget, allocating funds to federal programs, including housing and homelessness programs. We are urging Congress to provide $2.487 billion for the Homeless Assistance Grants program within the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in FY […]
Guest Blog: Tess Colby Pierce County, Washington The Alliance has released the five key strategies for advancing rapid re-housing. Those strategies are: Build the Evidence, Adopt Standards of Excellence and Practice, Make Rapid Re-Housing Part of Your System, Expand the […]
Program Overview The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants program within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is the federal government’s primary response to homelessness, funding proven solutions to the problem. The bipartisan HEARTH Act of 2009 reauthorized the program […]