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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . SNAPS In Focus: Prioritizing Persons with the Highest Level of Need in Permanent Supportive Housing In a perfect world, there would be enough affordable housing and supportive services to ensure that no one has to experience homelessness. But what do you do when there are not enough resources to achieve that vision? At the local level, this is all too familiar. Every day you are having to make decisions about who to serve when there simply are not enough beds and resources to serve everyone. This is also a dilemma that HUD and its Federal partners have been gr

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . 2014 HMIS Data Standards – Federal Partner Program HMIS Manuals Published HUD and its federal partners have published new resources on the HMIS Guides and Tools page of the HUD Exchange: Federal Partner Program HMIS Manuals Six new manuals have been prepared, in partnership with other federal agencies requiring Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) participation, to assist HMIS Lead Agencies and Continuums of Care (CoCs) to correctly set up projects in HMIS. Guides for the following programs have been posted: CoC Program HMIS Manual   ESG Pro

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . HUD's Sustainable Communities Initiative Launches New Resource Library Dear Friends and Colleagues: After years of communities’ hard work creating regional coalitions to strengthen their economies; obtaining comprehensive public input to reflect their priorities; and fostering public and private partnerships to ensure implementation of plans, I am excited to announce that HUD has created a Sustainable Communities Initiative Resource Library to house the products of HUD’s Sustainable Community Initiative Grantees. This new online library catalo

Filing is easier. Learn more . Can't see this?  View online . Online Tools, Standardized Forms, and More Effective March 24th, 2015,  VA is implementing improvements to make it easier for you to apply for benefits. Online application tools, standardized forms, and a new intent to file process will create faster and more accurate decisions on your claims and appeals. See how the changes affect you: What does it all mean? As part of the VA's full-scale transformation in 2015, these new changes will: Streamline the benefits process, making it faster and easier Use standardized forms to file disability claims and compensation appeals Establish a new intent to file a claim process Learn more about these important changes:

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Thursday March 19, 2015 Shelterforce in print One year for $18 Subscribe Now! Subscribe to  It's free!  Click here! Help support the voice of community development... Your Voice! Shelterforce  Exclusive Interview With Mayor Ivy Taylor, San Antonio, TX When Julian Castro, then-mayor of San Antonio, Texas, was picked to be the new Secretary of the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development last year, the city council voted in Ivy Taylor from among their ranks to replace him. The first African-American mayor of the largely Latino and Anglo city, and strongly identified as an urban planner, Taylor casts herself as someon