Congress is working on its first major change to the country’s largest homeless assistance program in more than 10 years. There are currently two versions of legislation being considered to reauthorize the HUD McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.
Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act (HEARTH Act)
This act would expand the definition of homelessness and allow more funds to be used for prevention. It has no provisions regarding resources and support given to rural areas, incentives for permanent housing or programs that serve families.
Summary of the HEARTH Act
http://www.endhomelessness.org/content/article/detail/1983
Community Partnership to End Homelessness Act (CPEHA)
This act would significantly improve the McKinney program through rewarding proven strategies, continuing a focus on permanent housing, increasing the resources devoted to prevention, better serving families with children, shifting the permanent housing renewal burden to the Section 8 account, increasing the capacity of rural communities to respond to homelessness, and in a number of other ways
Summary of the CPEHA
http://www.endhomelessness.org/content/article/detail/1807
Information taken from the National Alliance to End Homelessness website. Visit www.endhomeless.org for more information.
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