Slide 1:
HUD’s McKinney-Vento Programs: Moving Towards
Ending Chronic Homelessness
John Garrity
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Office of Special Needs Assistance Program
Slide 2:
Continuum of Care
This slide shows the flow through the continuum of care from outreach
intake assesment through to permanent housing or permanent supportive
housing. The paths are as follows:
- Outreach intake assessment to permanent housing or permanent supportive
housing; or
- Outreach intake assessment to emergency shelter:
- to permanent housing or permanent supportive housing; or
- to transitional housing to permanent housing or permanent
supportive housing; or
- to transitional housing to supportive services to permanent
supportive housing.
Slide 3:
Establish a Community Planning Process
- Organizational Structure
- Inclusive Participation
- All Subpopulations
- Year Round Process
- Active Involvement of All
Slide 4:
This slide shows an image with several items pointed towards the center
which reads, "Planning/Coordinating Councils." The items
are as follows:
- Veterans Services
- Mental Illness
- Faith-based Organizations
- Housing Developers
- Service Providers
- Homeless Persons
- Neighborhood Groups
- Local and State Government
- Foundations
- HIV/AIDS
- Business
Slide 5:
Developing A Comprehensive System
- Address All Sub-populations:
- Chronically homeless
- Veterans
- Persons living with mental illness
- Persons living with HIV/AIDS
- Substance abusers
- Victims of domestic violence
- Other
Slide 6:
Gaps and Priorities
Need - Current Inventory = Continuum of Care Gaps
Slide 7:
Set Priorities for Funding
- Consider local priorities
- Consider national priorities
- Balance need for new projects versus renewals
- Prioritize Projects
Slide 8:
Supplemental Resources
- Leverage HUD Project Funding
- Secure Mainstream Funding
- Other HUD housing programs
- Other Federal supportive service programs
- State and Local resources
- Private, Foundation resources
Slide 9:
What We Know AboutContinuum of Care
- Nearly 90% of the US population covered
- Responsible for the development of over 170,000 total beds
- Of those, 50,000 are permanent housing beds
Slide 10:
What We Know AboutContinuum of Care- (cont’d)
- Has helped over 400,000 formerly homeless individuals and families
obtain either transitional or permanent housing
- Annually leverages nearly $2 in non-McKinney Act money for each
$1 awarded in the competition
Slide 11:
HUD’s Strategy to End Chronic Homelessness
- Use the engine of Continuum of Care to effect change
- Require local chronic homelessness strategies with baselines
- Generate more permanent housing
- Incentivize use of mainstream service programs
- Stimulate innovative solutions to chronic homelessness
Slide 12:
HUD’s Strategy to End Chronic Homelessness (cont’d)
- Offer new TA opportunities to assist permanent housing providers
- Offer new TA resources to stimulate use of mainstream service
programs
- New legislative proposals that will encourage use of existing
resources and provide new targeted resources to address chronic homelessness
- Target mainstream housing resources on chronic homelessness
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