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HEARTH Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing ESG Emergency Solutions Grants Program + Consolidated Plan Conforming Amendments. Purpose. Moves funding from addressing the needs of homeless people in emergency or transitional shelters

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  1. HEARTHHomeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing ESG Emergency Solutions Grants Program+Consolidated Plan Conforming Amendments

  2. Purpose Moves funding from addressing the needs of homeless people in emergency or transitional shelters to assisting people to quickly regain stability in permanent housing after experiencing a housing crisis and/or homelessness

  3. Purpose The goal is to create consistency between the McKinney-Vento Act programs: the Community Development Block Grant program, the HOME investment partnership program, and the Housing choice voucher program

  4. Major Changes • More Administrative Funding • Emphasizes • Prevention • Rapid re housing • Permanent supportive housing • Focus on outcomes • Changes in certain definitions • Emergency Grants Solutions Program

  5. Definition Changes • Definitions- At Risk of Homelessness • Must meet two threshold criteria and must exhibit one or more specified risk factors • Two threshold criteria, as provided in the statue are • The individual or family has income below 30% of median income for the geographic area • The individual or family has insufficient resources immediately available to attain housing stability • Under the interim law, the first criterion refers specifically to annual income and median family income for the area, as determined by HUD • Pertinent risk factors • Has moved frequently because of economic reasons • Is living in the home of another because of economic hardship • Has been notified that their right to occupy their current housing or living situation will be terminated • Lives in a hotel or motel • Lives in severely overcrowded housing • Is exiting an institution • Otherwise lives in housing that has characteristics associated with instability and an increased risk of homelessness

  6. The FY 2011 Appropriations Act • Appropriates $1,905,000,000 for homeless grants, of which at least $225,000,000 shall be for the Emergency Solutions Grant program.

  7. Emergency Solutions Grants Program Regulations • Formerly known as Emergency Shelter Grants • Changes to reorganize the regulations in part 576 to make it more user friendly • Up to 7.5% for administrative expenses • Removes the cross-references to the McKinney Vento Act

  8. ESG Changes (Continued) • Roughly the same amount of funding for emergency shelters • New funding for homlessness prevention and rapid re-housing similar to HUD’s HPRP • 20% of homelessness assistance funding will be for the ESG

  9. ESG Changes (Continued) • Eligible Activities • Same as before plus HPRP activities (except that prevention has to target below 30% of AMI) • No cap on prevention, services, or staffing • Minimum of 40% must be for prevention and Rapid Re-Housing (with a hold-harmless provision)

  10. Single Continuum of Care program • Includes all of the eligible activities of the 3 former programs • More flexibility for mixing and matching eligible activities • Explicitly specifies re-housing services as an eligible activity • Up to 10% for administrative costs (previous amount was 5% for SHP and 8% for SPC • Reasonable costs for staff straining

  11. Continuum of Care Application • Providers in community jointly apply for funding • Application submitted by Collaborative Applicant, which will be eligible for 3% for admin. • More focused on performance • Reducing lengths of homeless episodes • Reducing recidivism back into homelessness • Reducing the number of people who become homeless

  12. New Definition of Homelessness/Eligibility • ESG serves people at risk • All program serve homeless people, including • People who are losing their housing in 14 days and lack resources/supports • People who have moved from place to place and are likely to continue to do so because of disability/barriers • Up to 10% (more in some cases) of CoC funds can serve doubled up/motels

  13. Additional Changes • Projects that serve families cannot refuse to serve families because of the age of the children (i.e. must serve families with adolescent children) • Projects must identify person who will be responsible for coordinating child’s education • Collaborative applicant is responsible for ensuring that everyone participates in HMIS

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