Transcript Establishing Partnerships with HUD & Housing Groups The HOW The Charge for LEAs If applicable, each State educational agency and local educational agency…shall coordinate with.

Establishing Partnerships with
HUD & Housing Groups
The HOW
The Charge for LEAs
If applicable, each State educational
agency and local educational
agency…shall coordinate with State
and local housing agencies responsible
for developing the comprehensive
housing affordability strategy
- Section 722(g)(5)(B
The Charge for LEAs
In order to improve the provision of
comprehensive education and related
services…(state coordinators must)
coordinate and collaborate with-• providers of services to homeless
and runaway children and youths
and homeless families
• community organizations and groups
representing homeless children and
youths and their families;
- Section 722(f)(5)
Some common federally
housing programs
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Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG)
provides funding to:
(1) engage homeless individuals and
families living on the street;
(2) improve the number and quality of
emergency shelters for homeless
individuals and families;
(3) help operate these shelters;
Emergency Solutions
Grants (ESG)
(4) provide essential services to
shelter residents,
(5) rapidly re-house homeless
individuals and families, and
(6) prevent families and individuals
from becoming homeless.
HOME Program
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HOME is authorized under Title II of the
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable
Housing Act, as amended. Program
regulations are at 24 CFR Part 92.
HOME provides formula grants to States and
localities that communities use-often in
partnership with local nonprofit groups-to
fund a wide range of activities that build,
buy, and/or rehabilitate affordable housing
for rent or homeownership or provide direct
rental assistance to low-income people.
HOME Program
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HOME is the largest Federal block grant to
State and local governments designed
exclusively to create affordable housing for
low-income households.
The program was designed to reinforce
several important values and principles of
community development:
 HOME's flexibility empowers people and communities
to design and implement strategies tailored to their
own needs and priorities.
HOME Program
 HOME's emphasis on consolidated planning expands
and strengthens partnerships among all levels of
government and the private sector in the
development of affordable housing.
 HOME's technical assistance activities and set-aside
for qualified community-based nonprofit housing
groups builds the capacity of these partners.
 HOME's requirement that participating jurisdictions
(PJs) match 25 cents of every dollar in program
funds mobilizes community resources in support of
affordable housing.
Continuum of Care
The Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid
Transition to Housing Act of 2009 (HEARTH
Act) amended the McKinney-Vento Homeless
Assistance Act.
Continuum of Care
HEARTH Act consolidates the three separate
McKinney-Vento homeless assistance programs
into a single grant program known as the
Continuum of Care (CoC) Program.
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Supportive Housing program,
Shelter Plus Care program, and
Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation SRO
program)
Continuum of Care
Designed to:
 to assist individuals (including
unaccompanied youth) and families
experiencing homelessness
 to provide the services needed to
help such individuals move into
transitional and permanent housing,
with the goal of long-term stability
 to promote community-wide planning
and strategic use of resources to
address homelessness
Continuum of Care
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to improve coordination and
integration with mainstream
resources and other programs
targeted to people experiencing
homelessness;
to improve data collection and
performance measurement; and
to allow each community to tailor its
program to the particular strengths
and challenges within that
community.