The sad news is that, given the number of homeless vets on the streets of American cities today, there's a 30 percent chance that he could've been beating up one of his own colleagues.
I guess he can hope that other soldiers won't do the same to him, since he's almost certain to be dishonorably discharged and that's a barrier that definitely has the potential to facilitate his journey to a back alley somewhere off one of the mean streets....
Updated: 6:54 PM Apr 29, 2010
Soldiers Charged After Assaulting Homeless Man
A soldier in Kentucky accused with three other men of beating a homeless man in Cincinnati will return to Ohio to face a charge of felonious assault.
Posted: 3:20 PM Apr 29, 2010 Soldiers Charged After Assaulting Homeless ManAuthorities say 24-year-old Riley Feller of Fort Knox has waived extradition in an Elizabethtown court.
Police say Feller and the others beat 52-year-old John Johnson who was sleeping under a bridge April 10.
Police say the men allegedly chose Johnson at random because they wanted to quote: "kick somebody's butt."
"That was real surprising to me as far as them being military, because I thought military were supposed to protect us, and not attack us when they're at home," said John Johnson, the victim of the attack.
Also charged and arrested in the case are 26-year-old, Fort Bragg Specialist Travis Condor and 24-year-old Michael Hesson of the Cincinnati area.
Leaving town today for some personal business and a little fun in Services in Supportive Housing but wanted to share some very important news coming down the pipeline that promises to make May memorable for many of us. According to one of my colleagues, contacts at USICH say the Federal Strategic Plan (FSP) will be released on 5/20, and mentioned some details that might be of interest.
The contact states it will be written like a business plan, with a focus on:
1) "investment for results,"
2) transparency, and measuring and reporting outcomes;
3) "new markers for collaborations targeted to the goals, with priority going to programs/agencies that use research, EBPs and emerging/promising practices; and
4) greater sharing of data across agencies.
Also, in the 2011 budget, HUD will get a 11.9% increase in homelessness funding, and HUD will create a new program "Housing Services for Homeless Persons Demonstration Project." It will offer 10,000 units of PSH, with 4,000 reserved for chronic homeless, combined with $16 million from HHS (SAMHSA?) for supportive services. The remaining 6,000 units will be vouchers for families experiencing homelessness.
Might we see some additional help here in the Nashville area? Time will tell so keep your fingers crossed, cuz like must places in the good ol U.S. of A, we could darn sure use it...
A nice synopsis on the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP). Because this is such an important program for folks who aren't considered part of the "traditional" homeless population - whatever that is - I'm hoping that people understand it a little better and recognize its importance as a tool that needs to be a permanent part of our national safety net.
As I said earlier in a Facebook post: know it, love it, learn it, as you may need it one day.....
It's an interesting time to be working on ending homelessness.
The economy is terrible and creating havoc for a lot of people. Rising unemployment tends to lead to more homelessness – and this recession has had a lot of unemployment.
At the same time, there are some opportunities to make progress. Congress passed an almost $800 billion economic stimulus bill in the spring: the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It includes $1.5 billion Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP).
This summer, HUD gave HPRP grants to all 50 states and about 500 cities, counties, and territories. The three-year grants ranged from about $500,000 for smaller cities to $74 million for New York City. These local governments will pass on most of their funds to nonprofit organizations to provide several types of financial assistance and services with the goal of preventing homelessness or helping somebody who has become homeless move into an apartment. Here are some examples of what HPRP will be funding:
Financial Assistance:
Up to 18 months of rental assistance, including up to six months of overdue rent;
Up to 18 months of utility assistance;
Moving costs; and
Rental or utility deposits;
Services:
Housing search assistance including help finding apartments and negotiating with landlords;
Case management;
Help applying for and coordinating other services such as employment, child care, etc.
Legal services; and
Credit repair services.
There is strong evidence that when done smartly, these kinds of programs can reduce homelessness. You can see some examples in this nice little video about the HomeBase program in New York City and this short summary about Rapid Exit in Hennepin County, MN.
This is incredibly important legislation for those of us who've suffered an assault by the criminal justice system because of our addiction disease and are dealing - often years later - with the fallout.
I've said it here before and I'll say it here again; the single biggest negative impact I've had on my ability to recover from my addiction has come not from the use of the drugs themselves but rather from the heavy hand and resultant stigmatization that has come as a direct result of having a felony conviction for marijuana.
Ridiculous....
President Talks About Importance of Second Chance Act
Yesterday, at a town hall meeting in Tampa, President Obama responded to a question about what could be done to help provide ex drug felons with jobs, so that they would not return to a life of crime, by touting the Second Chance Act. NPACH worked diligently with a bipartisan group of advocates and Members of Congress to pass this legislation, to help ensure that people leaving jails and prisons do not become homeless because they cannot rent an apartment or find work.
As a Consumer/Provider myself, I'm always interested in programs and agencies that use folks like me to operate. I'm a bit biased here, but I believe that consumer/providers are in a very unique - and qualified - position to assist others in their transition from their respective situations to a better life, whether it's addiction, homelessness, and/or mental illness.
It's not that we bring more to the table in the way of solutions. This is usually a fixed variable. There is what there is and there aint no more.
But what we bring that those without lived experience cannot is almost instant credibility. I can't tell you the number of times I've had people say to me that what they're dealing with doesn't even compare to what I've been through and if I was able to overcome it, surely they can too. Not saying here I've had the worst situations imaginable, although many have been pretty bad. Rather, I'm saying that consumers can often find hope, inspiration and positivity when dealing with a provider who has also been a consumer in the past and can relate on a personal level to what is happening in the life of the consumer.
I don't want folks to go away from this conversation thinking that you have to experience the blues before you can sing them. Anyone who cares about the sufferings of their fellow brothers and sisters are more than capable of doing this kind of work. But there is something special about the consumer/provider's ability to cross over from agency wonk to fellow human being in a way most others cannot...
Description:This is the third in a series of articles highlighting Housing Options Made Easy, Inc., a consumer-run supportive housing program in Western New York. Created by a group of consumers, Housing Options Made Easy is one of the largest peer-run agencies in the United States. This article describes Housing Options’ innovative peer specialist training program, offered through the University of Buffalo.
Training programs for peer specialists are vital to helping consumers gain employment and become skilled providers. Dedicated training programs offer valuable opportunities for consumers to gain skills. These programs are also an important component of a commitment to consumer involvement in the design, delivery, and evaluation of services.
Housing Options Made Easy, Inc. has been a leader in offering peer specialist training and promoting the legitimatization and credentialing of peer support specialists. Located in Western New York State, the agency is one of the largest peer-run agencies in the country and one of only a few that provide supportive housing to families. Housing Options employs a staff comprised entirely of peer-providers in its supportive housing program for families.
As a consumer-founded and consumer-run program, Housing Options was an early innovator in the peer-provided services movement. The agency believes that training is vital to help support staff in their transition from “consumer” to “peer provider.” All new direct service staff members participate in an initial two-week training. This training is supplemented with ongoing bi-monthly training sessions to refresh skills and introduce new topics.
In addition, the agency offers peer specialist training courses in conjunction with the University of Buffalo.
They offer three levels: introductory; intermediate; and advanced. The three-course sequence is designed to prepare individuals who have a history of mental illness to work effectively in the behavioral health system as consumers and peer specialists. The course is open to all individuals in the community who are adults currently in treatment or with a history of treatment for a DSM-IV Axis I disorder (including both mental health and chemical dependency diagnoses), and an interest in becoming a peer provider.
The course aims to prepare peer providers to function in various roles including:
Peer Case Manager/Peer Specialist
Peer Advocate
Self-Help Facilitator/Coordinator
Peer Trauma Specialist
Mental Health Court Advocate
The learning objectives of the peer specialist training program include:
Recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness, chemical dependency and co-occurring disorders.
Learn appropriate person-centered recovery responses to mental illness, chemical dependency, and co-occurring disorders.
Develop the skills needed to function in the role of peer specialist in Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS).
Learn how to navigate the behavioral health service delivery system and how to secure services.
Understand concepts of Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS).
Understand professional and consumer responsibilities.
Develop workplace skills and communication strategies.
The course is designed for students who have a high school degree and can read at the 6th grade level or higher. The class meets weekly for three hours. Students may attend online or in person. Students complete a pre- and post-test of skills and submit a final paper on a behavioral health topic relevant to Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS), New York State’s comprehensive recovery-oriented program for individuals with severe mental illness.
Five core topics are covered over a ten-week period. Required reading for the course includes: Housing Options’ “Advocacy for Empowerment Manual”; white papers by the New York State Office of Mental Health; articles on person-centered planning, and white papers by the Western New York Care Coordination Program. Students who complete the introductory and/or immediate courses are eligible for an internship arranged as an Independent Study.
I've been told repeatedly, by people I respect and admire, that "the homeless will always be with us."
Hogwash, says I, with no disrespect intended to the folks who've said this to me in the past.
But here's the deal. When I first started outreach work, I came at it from a different perspective. I had spent a lot of time mired in the mix of drugs, crime, streetlife and ignorance that is rampant on the street.
I'm not talking here about stupid people here folks; most of the people I know who survive for years, sometimes decades, on the street are far from stupid. In fact, they are some of the most cunning, adaptable, resilient and tough sunsabitches I've ever met in my life. Had they gotten better direction, or were borne into families of wealth and power, these folks may very well have turned out to be captains of industry, innovators of new products, services and solutions, or great military leaders.
Instead, they've been relegated to the street because many are ignorant of the way in which society actually works.
We've got no one to blame but ourselves, kids. We're the ones who make policies for our country. We're the ones who decide children should be able to leave school at 16. We're the ones who decide what is going to be taught to our young peeps as they move into adulthood.
Many people like to point to poor parenting as the reason we've got so many problems in our country today.
While parenting is important, when a child is introduced into the community of the United States of America, we all have an obligation - hell, we've got a duty - to inculcate, educate, and assist that child into adulthood.
We simply cannot leave something this important in the hands of one or two people, especially when those parents are struggling for 8-12 hours a day simply to keep a roof over their own heads while they provide for that child.
No, it's all our responsibility to ensure that child gets educated, not only in the three Rs, but in the other very important areas of life; how to get into college - and why that is important - how to prepare for work and then find a job, how to manage one's money and handle a family budget, how to tolerantly interact with people holding different opinions or who look different than you, how to quickly ask for assistance when they're in over their heads - and making sure assistance is available quickly, how to find resources, how to follow rules and why it's important...we've all got a duty to teach them how to live in a society.
This is exactly what Operation Stand Down has done here in Nashville and it's why they have such stunning success rates. It's also what Christine Shanes is highlighting in the post below.
See, if we don't do these things on the front end, we're gonna have to do them on the back end. And when you do them on the back end folks, you pay in so many ways I can't even list them all here.....
Many people feel that homelessness will never end. They believe that
homelessness is just too big a problem to solve. Because of this
belief, some people become paralyzed, unable or unwilling to see any
resolution to the pain caused by homelessness for millions of families
and individuals.
I firmly believe that homelessness can be solved. We created
homelessness by cutting programs without providing programs that kept
people housed. As more and more people became homeless, we ignored the
issues of homelessness and the situation grew more dire. Finally, the
foreclosure crisis continues to create homeless families in record
numbers.
I suggest that we use the expression that is often used when
speaking about resolving the enormous issue of global warming, "think
globally and act locally," to encourage local solutions to the national
issue of homelessness.
Fortunately, I am not alone in my belief that homelessness can end.
In fact, there are programs in existence today that are actually
helping to solve homelessness. But, perhaps these programs are just not
well known. So, in an effort to offer tangible proof that homelessness
can be solved, I like to highlight local programs, including North
County Solutions for Change, which I feel are actually successfully
helping to end homelessness.
Located in Vista, California, North County Solutions for Change,
www.solutionsforchange.org, is an innovative program, created by Chris
and Tammy Megison, which offers a permanent solution for family
homelessness. My friend, Hannah Cohen, a policy consultant on issues of
housing and homelessness, suggested that I visit North County Solutions
for Change and she was kind enough to arrange a meeting for me with
Chris Megison, President and Executive Director. The bottom line -- I
am very grateful to Hannah for the recommendation and very grateful to
Chris and Tammy for developing their successful program.
The concept of North County Solutions for Change is that of The
Solutions University which consists of three clusters of housing with
educational programs, employment preparation and health solutions:
Solutions Intake and Access Center (IAC), the Solutions Family Center
(SFC) and New Solutions (permanent housing units). Solutions University
utilizes the efforts of the participants themselves and the support of
program coaches over a period of 500 days on campus and 500 days off
campus to solve family homelessness.
The IAC has 14 semi-private dorm room styles units for families for
which the families pay 30 percent of their income for rent. The goal of
IAC is "to provide immediate housing, support and comprehensive
assessment for Solutions University applicants awaiting the move into
the main on-campus Solutions Family Center."
www.solutionsforchange.org/campus/ The IAC is designed for three month
or less stays, but due to the affordable housing crisis, families are
spending more time in IAC than originally intended.
However, North County Solutions for Change has a new community
initiative, Finding Our Way Home, through which it plans to acquire
more affordable homes so that families can move off campus and into
this permanent housing and families in the IAC can move onto the SFC on
Solutions University campus.
Situated on two acres of land, SFC has 32 fully furnished apartment
units, with full kitchens shared by each pair of apartment units,
within four buildings in a campus style setting. Families pay 30
percent of their income for rent and can stay for 500 days. 10 percent
of all rent is returned to the families when they complete the SFC
program and move into permanent housing at New Solutions. A fifth
building is a 7,600 sq. ft support center with educational, work
training and baby-sitting spaces. A staff of trained coaches encourage
and support the residents.
New Solutions is comprised of permanent affordable housing for
families who have completed the 500 days on the Solutions campus.
Currently, North County Solutions for Change has nineteen housing units
where families can stay for 500 days with Solutions University services
and then continue to live in those homes on a permanent basis. However,
through their new community initiative, Finding Our Way Home, North
County Solutions for Change hopes to acquire 70-100 new permanent
affordable housing units.
Chris explained to me that he believes that no nonprofit or
government agency can solve homelessness alonebut that it takes every
part of our community to work together to end homelessness. In my
opinion, Chris and Tammy have created a program that the whole
community should support because North County Solutions truly helps
people transition from homelessness to permanent housing. Further, I
believe that North County Solutions for Change needs to be replicated
so that homeless families in other communities can end their
homelessness.
Please note that Chris invites everyone to learn about the Finding
Our Way Home campaign by joining the Live Webcast details of which
Chris sets forth as follows:
"After working on this for over a year, Solutions for Change will
launch a massive communitywide initiative in less than a week. Called
Finding Our Way Home, the 1000 day campaign will officially get
underway on April 22, 2010 at a community leadership breakfast event.
You may join in this special event though a LIVE Webcast, available to
Solutions for Change Facebook Fans here:
www.facebook.com/solutionsforchange (you must sign up). Solutions has
assembled some impressive people to lead the charge; the CEO of Taylor
Made-addidas Golf, Mark King will lead the team. He, along with CEO
Bumble Bee Foods Chris Lischewski and several other top executives and
elected officials from around the region have rolled up their sleeves
to prove that yes indeed, the impacts of homelessness on our neighbors
and on our community, has met its match. It can in your community too."
Homelessness is solvable. North County Solutions for Change is proof.
Many people feel that homelessness will never end. They believe that
homelessness is just too big a problem to solve. Because of this
belief, some people become paralyzed, unable or unwilling to see...
Many people feel that homelessness will never end. They believe that
homelessness is just too big a problem to solve. Because of this
belief, some people become paralyzed, unable or unwilling to see...
A former corporate development manager in the software industry has
been forced to come up with increasingly inventive ways to survive
during the recession. After...
UPDATE: Ronnie Walker's social worker, Carolyn Taren, informed The
Huffington Post today that the 14-year-old and her family will soon be
moving into an apartment...
My friend and colleague Wendy Grace Evans posted this over at the Homelessness Resource Center and I thought it was definitely good enough to repeat here - not that everything she places on the site isn't good enough, mind you - but the issue of trauma informed care, motivational interviewing and reflective listening are approaches that are considered "best practices" and bring results far more so than some of the older, "traditional" methods of engagement.....
What does it mean to be a trauma-informed clinician? Theresa Dubois of Chicago’s Family Rescue shelter shares her thoughts on providing trauma-informed care to survivors of violence. She emphasizes the importance of a collaborative relationship between clinicians and clients to promote healing. Family Rescue offers comprehensive trauma-informed services to survivors of domestic violence.
What does it mean to be a trauma-informed clinician?
According to Theresa Dubois, Program Director at Chicago’s Family Rescue, “You must be familiar with the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. It is critical to understand that client behaviors are a function of past trauma. The interplay between the provider and the client is very important.”
Trauma-informed care means understanding, anticipating, and responding to the issues, expectations, and special needs that a person who has been victimized may have. At a minimum, trauma-informed services seek to do no harm—to avoid retraumatizing or blaming clients for trying to manage their traumatic reactions.
Family Rescue offers comprehensive support, services, and shelter to survivors of domestic violence, especially women and their children. The shelter is one of only two Chicago domestic violence shelters to accept teenage boys with their mothers. Family Rescue is committed to training staff members in trauma-informed care. The program continues to expand trauma-informed services.
Theresa emphasizes that a trauma-informed clinician must approach a survivor of violence with an attitude of collaboration. The relationship between the client and clinician becomes a “tool for healing,” according to Theresa. “It is a collaborative relationship based on empowerment. The clinician shows respect for what the client has experienced. She understands that the client’s brain and body have been affected by things that happened to her.”
Theresa says clinicians should expect that trust will be hard to earn. “You can expect that unhealthy defenses will take time to collapse. But the defenses will come down as your client gains the experience of having a healthy relationship with the trauma-informed clinician who approaches the relationship with understanding and without judgment.”
“As a trauma-informed clinician, you can help her to make sense of her world,” explains Theresa. “The trauma-informed clinician understands that clients are often triggered in unexpected ways: the smell of something, the way a door closes, the way someone moves suddenly. All of these things can trigger a client. As she heals, she will gain an understanding of these triggers,” says Theresa. Clinicians work with clients to develop a deeper understanding of trauma response triggers.
Family Rescue offers programs to help survivors learn how to regulate their emotions. Through these programs, survivors find ways to achieve peace through meditation and relaxation. They learn about emotional and psychological abuse.
Theresa’s first experience using a trauma-informed framework was in the mid-1980s. “I got my hands on Judith Herman’s work. She was starting to crack the code on trauma by examining survivors of adult and lifelong trauma. Using Herman’s first book, I’d bring those insights to support shelters and groups.”
It is important that the clinician does not place unrealistic expectations on the client. Rather, she must understand that a client may shut down when trying to manage her emotions to block past trauma. As they work together, the clinician will learn how to help a client to move forward. At the same time, the clinician must be aware that the client may not be able to move forward at any given time. “Her boundaries have been violated at every level, and you must be sensitive to that in a respectful way,” says Theresa. It is important that the clinician learns to ask questions that will lead the client to understand more about herself.
In Chicago, Family Rescue has seen changes in how clients respond to trauma-informed care. “We are seeing women who have experienced a lot of trauma staying in our program longer. They are staying not just because of the services, but because the community living environment has changed for the better,” offers Theresa. In a trauma-informed environment, community living is more harmonious. The primary rule at Family Rescue shelters is “No Violence.”
Family Rescue is a partner with Chicago’s Domestic Violence and Mental Health Policy Initiative (DVMHPI), an innovative project designed to address the unmet mental health needs of domestic violence survivors and their children. It is a collaborative effort to increase the capacity of the local service system to provide culturally relevant, trauma-informed services that address the mental health impact of domestic violence and lifetime abuse. DVMHPI offers training, consultation, and networking initiatives and has worked with over 75 domestic violence, mental health, substance abuse and social service agencies in the Chicago area.
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I'm not certain whether the budget has increased much since this piece was written back in 2007, but I do know that the HEARTH Act and the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program has brought a new tool to the box of resources we've got to find housing for folks on the street.
The problem is however, that because HPRP requires that the rent for the residence be sustainable and not over 30 percent of the person's total monthly income, housing vouchers are almost indispensable for peeps using SSDI incomes or who are working at minimum wage - or close to it.
It's kinda like having the Vulnerability Index effort running at full steam but not having housing for folks once you've idenrified them at high risk of dying on the street if left at the status quo.....
(Homeless Power Project members sit outside foreclosed
HUD home after housing takeover in 2008. Photo by Steven Samra)
Affordable Housing Shortage
SEPTEMBER 2007
15.8 Million With Housing Cost Burden
As incomes fail to keep pace with housing costs, Americans face complicated choices: desperately trying to put food on the table, pay for quality health-care, educate their children, and keep a roof over their head. Those that cannot manage that balancing act become homeless or live on the periphery. The number of households that are paying over 50 percent of their income toward housing, or severely cost burdened, is estimated to be 15.8 million.1 Further, 5.2 million households are considered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to be living in “worst case housing” conditions, meaning they spend 50 percent of their income on rent and earn only 50 percent of the area median income or live in severely substandard housing.2
Cost Burden Concentrated Among Low-Income Households
Severe cost burden is particularly troublesome for poor families. Of households with housing cost burden, 74 percent qualify as extremely low income (Exhibit 1).3 Approximately 66 percent of households with severe cost burden have vulnerable family members such as children, the elderly, or the disabled. These households have a harder time paying for food, transportation, and medical care and are at a higher risk for homelessness.4
Incomes Fail to Keep Pace
Incomes are not keeping pace with rising housing costs. In 2006, the national housing wage, or hourly wage needed to afford rental housing, increased to $16.31 revealing how rising housing costs escape the capabilities of low income renters.5 The Stamford, CT metro area is the least affordable in the country with a necessary wage of $30.62 for a two bedroom at the fair market rent.6 The metropolitan areas of San Francisco, CA; Orange County, CA; Boston, MA; New York City; and Washington, DC are among the highest cost areas.
Affordable Housing Stock is Dwindling
In recent decades, efforts to provide affordable housing have decreased significantly, diminishing the inventory of affordable rental stock. In the past decade alone, 170,000 public units have been lost due to deterioration.7 Between 1999 and 2006, annual funding for public housing declined by 25 percent, threatening program administrator’s ability to preserve the remaining 1.2 million public housing units.8 A number of federally subsidized, private market units have also dropped out of the affordable housing stock. In the last ten years, 300,000 have been lost to deterioration.9 Funding for such units has declined in the last ten years, threatening the 1.4 million private units that are a part of the federally subsidized, affordable housing stock. Further compounding the problem is the number of unsubsidized affordable units that are going offline. The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University estimates an annual loss of 200,000 affordable private market rental units due for demolition.10
Losing Housing Vouchers
Tenant based subsidies such as The Housing Choice Voucher Program (formerly Section 8) has lost over 150,000 tenant based housing subsidies since 2004 because policy changes and unsound funding formulas.11 While 15.8 million households are eligible for tenant based housing subsidies, only one in nine receive them.12 Compounding this gap is that only 92.5 percent of all authorized vouchers were estimated to be in use at the end of 2006, well below the target utilization rate of 98.5 percent.13
Long Waiting Lists for Housing Subsidies
The dwindling numbers of subsidized housing is leaving many eligible people on waiting lists, often years in length. Places with the greatest need have had their waiting lists closed for years. In January of 2007, New York City opened its waiting list for the first time in 12 years.14 St. Paul, Minnesota opened its waiting list for two days and had an 11,000 person response resulting in a wait of many years for some families.15 In Washington, DC, the waiting list for subsidized housing is over 46,000 households long, representing a 92 percent increase since 2002.16
Exhibit 1 Severly Housing Cost Burdened by Income Level
Source: Data from National Low Income Housing Coalition 2005.
HUD Budget Trending Downward
Programs dedicated to the provision of affordable housing are primarily funded under the HUD Budget. In 1976, the HUD Budget authority was just over $86 billion. In the past three decades, this figure fell to approximately $34 billion. Since 2004, federal appropriations for affordable housing and community development has decreased by $3.3 billion, and there is a proposed budget cut of an additional $1.3 billion in 2007.17 These programs are critical in reducing the gap between the number of available affordable rental units and the number of families who need them. While there are 6 million units of affordable housing accessible to households earning 30 percent of the area median income, there are 7.7 million such households.18 This chasm between supply and need will only grow larger if not addressed.
Endnotes
1 Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS). Harvard University 2006. The State of the Nation’s Housing. 2 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). 2003. Affordable Housing Needs: A Report to Congress on the Significant Need for Housing. Washington, D.C. Office of Policy Development and Research. 3 National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). 2006.
Out of Reach. 4 Rice, D. and Sard, B. The Effects of the Federal Budget Squeeze on Low Income Housing Assistance. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. February 2, 2007. 5 “Housing Wage” is the hourly wage needed to afford a two bedroom apartment at the HUD defined fair market rent. Source: National Low Income Housing Coalition. Out of Reach. 2006. 6 Ibid 7 Rice, D. and Sard, B. The Effects of the Federal Budget Squeeze on Low Income Housing Assistance. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. February 2, 2007. 8 Ibid 9 Ibid 10 Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) Harvard University. America’s Rental Housing – Homes for a Diverse Nation. 2006. 11 Rice, D. and Sard, B. The Effects of the Federal Budget Squeeze on Low Income Housing Assistance. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. February 2, 2007. 12 Ibid 13 Ibid 14 New York City Housing Authority. 2007. Section 8 Assistance. General Information. http://www.nyc.gov/cgibin/ misc/pfprinter.cgi?action=print&sitename=NYCHA 15 Saint Paul Housing Authority. 2007. http://www.stpaulpha. org/s8other.html 16 Lazere, Ed, Rogers, Angie, Rolland, Stacey. Meeting DC’s Challenges, Maintaining Fiscal Discipline: Policy Proposals for the New Mayor and Council. March 6, 2007 17 Rice, D. and Sard, B. The Effects of the Federal Budget Squeeze on Low Income Housing Assistance. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. February 2, 2007. 18 National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). 2006.
Out of Reach.
The National Alliance to End Homelessness’ Fact Checker Series provides accurate statistics on homelessness. This series draws on the best expertise, data, and research available. For more information about homelessness, please visit www.endhomelessness.org.
Soldiers Charged After Assaulting Homeless ManAuthorities say 24-year-old Riley Feller of Fort Knox has waived extradition in an Elizabethtown court.
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