President Obama's budget provisions for public housing and and homelessness (updated)

[ProSense]

HUD FY2011 BUDGET FOCUSES ON FISCAL DISCIPLINE, INVESTING IN PEOPLE AND PLACES (edited to reflect snip)

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The carefully targeted investments in the Budget will enable HUD programs to:

•House over 2.3 million families in public and assisted housing (over 58% elderly or disabled);

•Provide voucher assistance to 78,000 additional families (over 47% elderly or disabled);

•Assist nearly 5.5 million households, over 200,000 more than at the end of fiscal year 2009.

•More than double the annual rate at which HUD assistance creates new permanent supportive housing for the homeless;

•Create and retain over 112,000 jobs through the Department’s housing and economic development investments in communities across the country.

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The Budget reflects a strong administration commitment to preventing and ending homelessness. To support implementation of the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act signed into law last year by President Obama, the Budget proposes a nearly $200 million increase in homeless assistance funding compared to fiscal year 2010 to increase investment in evidence-based practices, support the shift of local homeless assistance systems to a performance-based orientation, and to better meet the unique needs of rural communities. These investments in prevention will create long term savings in the costs of caring for the homeless. HUD has requested $2.055 billion for Homeless Assistance Grants in its FY2011 budget. $107 million of the new funding would focus on providing up to 10,000 new units of permanent housing for homeless families and individuals and implementing a new rural homelessness program.

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Updated to add: President's FY 2011 Budget Rundown

[Tumbulu]

1. Thanks goodness (nt)

[DrToast]

2. Amazing how relatively inexpensive this program is. *

[DesertFlower]

3. very good. nt

[Better Today]

4. Or he could focus on job stimulus on a large scale to reduce homelessness

instead of continuing to allow its steady rise. But hey, let's always react after the issue balloons instead of before, by all means.

[ClarkUSA]

6. Today's AP headline: "Obama election-year jobs agenda stalls in Congress" due to lack of votes

By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer – Sun Apr 11, 10:00 am ET

WASHINGTON – The election-year jobs agenda promised by President Barack Obama and Democrats has stalled seven months before voters determine control of Congress.

Democrats have no money to pay for the program. That's because both Republicans and the Democratic chairman of the Senate Budget Committee objected to taking money left over from the fund that bailed out banks, automakers and insurers and using it for the jobs bill.

Such a move, they insisted, would add tens of billions of dollars to the $12.8 trillion national debt.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_congress_jobs

He is focued on creating jobs, but as you can see, nothing will happen unless Congress agrees to it, so the OP is indeed good news.

[ProSense]

8. Let's hope they take advantage of the health care reform momentum and do something. n/t

[ClarkUSA]

9. They're going to try, along with picking a new SCOTUS and immigration reform.

The latter is a promise by Harry Reid while he was campaigning recently.

[Vinca]

5. On Friday I was listening to a local radio program and a woman

from an organization that works with the homeless was putting out a call for tents. Now that winter is over, the shelters are closing and she had an immediate need for 18 tents. It broke my heart to think this is what our country has come to.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. So, this made the GP (5 recs) and now it's down to 3 recs?

Pricks.

[FrenchieCat]

10. Good news is not Good news to some.....

those invested in seeing this administration fail,
and hoping against all hopes that in the process,
our country fails.