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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . OHH Monthly Focus on Employment: Adopting an Employment Mentality - A Look at International AIDS Empowerment This monthly focus on employment, provided by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of HIV/AIDS Housing (OHH), discusses International AIDS Empowerment strategies. International AIDS Empowerment , in El Paso, Texas, illustrates how vocationalizing is a process to embed employment-related expectations, practice, and service delivery into all facets of program operation and culture. International AIDS Empower...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Register Today: Basically CDBG for Entitlements and Disaster Recovery Module Training The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is pleased to announce a series of 3-day Basically CDBG for Entitlement Grantees and Disaster Recovery Module Training in San Antonio, TX and Philadelphia, PA. This training will guide and assist Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) grantees in the implementation of their programs. Participants will learn: CDBG National Objectives & Eligible Activities Program Administration ...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . HOME Monthly Reports Now Posted The HOME Program's Monthly reports are now posted on the OneCPD Resource Exchange at the links below. You may also access them from the  HOME Program Resource Page  under "HOME Reports."   Monthly Reports as of 4/30/14 Now Available: 2012/2013 HOME Activities Reports 2012/2013 HOME Homebuyer Activities Reports HOME Deadline Compliance Status Reports HOME HUD Initiated Activity Cancellation Reports HOME National Production Reports HOME PJs Open Activities Reports HOME P...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Register Today: CHDO Workshops - June 2014 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is pleased to announce a series of 2.5-day Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) training workshops that will be held during the spring and summer of 2014. Registration is currently open for all June workshops: Minneapolis, MN June 3-5, 2014 Register Now Chicago, IL June 3-5, 2014 Register Now New Orleans, LA June 10-12, 2014 Register Now ...

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May 13, 2014      ISSUES   |   POLICY   |   SOLUTIONS   |   NEWS & EVENTS Forward Editor: Emanuel Cavallaro Spotlight On... VA Proposes Rule to Prioritize Assistance for Low Income Veteran Families The Department of Veterans Affairs is proposing a new rule that would require that grantees under the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program provide permanent housing assistance to eligible veteran families who would likely become homeless without it. The proposed rule would expand grantees' authority to provide certain services to extremely low-income veteran families as well as clarify which services are not permissible uses of SSVF funds. The deadline to submit comments on the proposed rule is June 23. More information Hill Update ...

1.      Proposed Rule Published in the Federal Register on May 9, 2014 2.      Households Served by Continuum of Care (CoC) Survey – Missing Grantee Information! 3.      National Center on Homelessness Research Brief: Impact and Performance of the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program: Results from the FY 2013 Program Year 4.      Program Guide and SSVF University Updates 5.      Q3 Program Change Requests Reminder 6.      Cancellation of SSVF May Webinar Proposed Rule Published in the Federal Register on May 9, 2014 Attached, please find the recently published Proposed Rule.  The VA proposes to amend its regulations concerning the SSVF Program.  The proposed changes would clarify that grantees must focus on providing permanent housing to eligible Veteran families who, without SSVF assistance, would likely be hom...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . HUD Issues Memo on System and Regulatory Changes to Eliminate First-In-First-Out Accounting in IDIS HUD has issued a Memo on System and Regulatory Changes to Eliminate First-In-First-Out (FIFO) Accounting in the Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS) . The memo describes pending system and regulatory changes that will significantly impact the administration of the following programs: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Housing Opportunities for ...