Transcript Jack Peters, Director Office of Community Planning and

HUD PERSPECTIVES FOR
WASHINGTON STATE COALITION
FOR THE HOMELESS
Jack Peters, Director
Office of Community Planning and Development
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
206.220.5268
[email protected]
Vision for Special Needs
Programs
• New Secretarial Initiative for Special Needs
– Increasing access to HUD mainstream housing
resources for persons with special needs,
homeless, persons living with HIV/AIDS, veterans,
etc.
– Internal coordination with HUD offices including
PD&R
Vision for Special Needs
Programs
• Homelessness
– New interagency council on homelessness—
Secretary Donovan is Chair
– HEARTH: Development and implementation of
new regulations
– HPRP: Transforming local systems and how to
transition to HEARTH
Homelessness: HEARTH Act
• Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid
Transition to Housing Act (HEARTH Act)
– Reauthorize HUD’s McKinney-Vento Homeless
Assistance Programs
– SHP, S+C, SRO to become part of CoC Program
• Prevention added as eligible activity
– Creates rural housing program
– ESG renamed as Emergency Solutions Grant
HEARTH Act
• Timeline:
– 12 months for regulations
– 18 months to implement
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Focus Groups
Draft regulations out for Notice and Comment
CPD Staff input
Training
Implement in 2011 Competition
New HUD Program Updates
• HUD-VASH
– Permanent housing for homeless vets and their
families
– Combines rental assistance with case
management and clinical services
– Estimated 20,000 vouchers available from 2008
and 2009 appropriations
New HUD Program Updates
• Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP)
– Focus of HPRP is housing stabilization
– Provides temporary financial assistance and/or
services to help persons gain housing stability
– Intent is to serve persons who:
• are homeless or would be homeless but for this
assistance
• can remain stably housed after this temporary
assistance ends
Challenges for CoCs
• Integration of HPRP as a resource for CoCs
• Focus on results measurement through HMIS
• Ongoing participation in AHAR and
Homelessness Pulse
• Consolidation changes through the HEARTH
Act
• Once is a lifetime opportunity to change how
we deliver homeless services
Special Needs Resources
• Homelessness Resource Exchange:
www.hudhre.info
• HUD’s HMIS Portal: www.hmis.info
• SNAPS APR Help Desk:
– Email: [email protected]
– Hotline: 877-277-1460