This policy brief examines potential changes to funding allocations for the Homeless Assistance grants under the HEARTH Act. (Author)
The HEARTH Act increases funding for many important homelessness prevention and re-housing activities, but allocating more funding for these activities means that overall homelessness funding will have to increase to avoid cuts to other activities. The activity most at risk is the creation of new permanent supportive housing for people with disabilities, which has successfully reduced chronic homelessness. This brief quantifies the changes to funding allocations made by the HEARTH Act and demonstrates the impact of several FY 2011 funding scenarios, including two different “Hold-Harmless” scenarios. (Author)