When developing effective affordable housing programs, city leaders may find it challenging to address the needs of their community's most vulnerable citizens--people who are homeless. Fortunately, there is a significant resource available.Troth, Rebecca...
Homeless individuals and families in the United States can receive housing assistance from community service organizations through grant monies received from the federal government. Government-funded grant programs are designed to assist shelter facilities with operating costs and help individuals, families ...
Given this trend, the purpose of this article is to question the assumption that local government will be able to preserve their authority over housing for homeless people. Using a case study of a local zoning battle over a proposed housing development for homeless people, the author argues ...
San Francisco, a major tourist city on the west coast, spends about 300 million dollars on homelessness every year. The extra grant will help the San Francisco government expand programs to provide housing for the homeless sleeping on the streets. The federal government awards the grants every J...
Homelessness and the Crisis of Affordable Housing: The Abandonment of a Federal Affordable Housing Policy Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development LawClark III, Alfred M.
This paper examines the response of the Reagan Administration to the crisis of homelessness. The ideology of the Administration, its broad social-expenditure priorities, and its programs for health, housing, income maintenance, and human services which affect the homeless are investigated. The paper ...
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Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth & First Focus. Durham, K. (2003). Housing youth: Key issues in supportive housing. New York, NY: Corporation for Supportive Housing. Retrieved from http://documents.csh.org/documents/pd/youth/housingyouth.pdf...
It also includes a $1-billion enhancement to programs to end homelessness and $250 million to support permanent housing options for people who are unsheltered or living in encampments, with specific funding to shelter asylum claimants and to address homelessness experienced by military veterans. ...
of their low income or eligibility for another income-tested program. “Low income” is defined in a multitude of ways, using different percentages of the federal poverty guidelines, specific dollar amounts, percentages of local area median income (primarily for housing programs), or other ...