"There is a tremendous demand on our streets and in your accommodation experience at both those facing long-term homelessness, and family sudden economic crisis," said Donovan. "These grants are the lifeline for thousands of local housing and service programs that do the heavy lifting are to meet on President Obama's goal of ending homelessness."
"We have some pretty face difficult times these last few years," said HUD Northwest Regional Administrator Mary McBride, "and people who had never, ever imagine homelessness now find themselves on the street or in a shelter. Fortunately Day day in these 22 projects remain vulnerable Alaska on their feet and those who helped on their homeless. HUD is proud to help open their doors and promote the excellent work they do. "
"Across federal agencies, we turn our mainstream programs to prevent a goal and end homelessness," said Barbara Poppe, director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. "As we strengthen public-private partnerships in Washington and across the country continue to achieve this goal, today'sgrants provide essential support to continue the progress and critical needs of those experiencing the crisis of homelessness."
Today's announcement also comes just a week before thousands of volunteers in almost every city and county conduct a national one-night count of homeless people and families. HUD's Let's Make Everyone Counts! Campaign aims to trends in homelessness, which are crucial for local planners efforts to prevent and end homelessness in their areas to be documented. Thegrants announced today form an important basis for the Obama Administration Opening Doors Strategy, the nation's first comprehensive plan to prevent and end homelessness.
HUD's Continuum of Care grants provide permanent and transitional housing homeless people and services, including education, health care, mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment and care. Continuum of Care organizations to set priorities with how best the diverse needs of the homeless in the communities they serve comply calculated. HUD Continuum of Care grants are awarded competitively to local programs to the needs of their customers are homeless. These grants fund a variety of programs from street coverage and assessment programs to transitional and permanent housing for homeless persons and families.
HUD's homeless assistance grants to reduce long-term or chronic homelessness in America. Based on the latest assessment of the Ministry homeless chronic homelessness since 2005, were due to significant investments in thousands of units of permanent supportive housing for those who had lived on the road to produce. While the total number of homeless has risen in the United States declined slightly between 2008 and 2009 the number of homeless families for the second consecutive year, almost certainly because of the continuing effects of the recession. In the last 10 days of January, volunteers from across the country will try the number of homeless person living in shelters and are counting on the streets as part of a national point-in-time. For more information on HUD's "Let's Make Every one!" Campaign, visit www.hud.gov / homeless count.
Based on HUD's 2009 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) volunteers across the country counted 643,000 homeless people in a given night in January 2009. In addition, HUD found that in 2009, 1.54 million people used emergency or transitional housing programs in 2009. A typical sheltered homeless is a single, middle-aged man and a member of a minority. Of all the emergency shelters or transitional housing during 2009 were searched observed the following characteristics:
78 percent of all sheltered homeless persons are adults;
61 percent are male;
62 percent are members of a minority;
38 percent are 31-to-50 years old;
64 percent are in single-person households and
38 percent have a disability.
In addition to HUD's annual grant awards, HUD awarded $ by its new 1500000000 Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-housing (HPRP) program. Made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, is intended HPRP people from falling into homelessness or quickly to prevent the house if they do. To date, more than 750,000 people have been supported by HPRP.
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