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SSVF FY 2014 Annual Report Now Available The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has released the FY 2014 Annual Report for the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program. The report provides a summary of the results from 319 SSVF grantees funded for FY 2014.  Some key highlights from the report include: Since SSVF’s inception, the program has served a cumulative total of 138,538 veterans. Since its inception, SSVF’s rapid re-housing assistance has become a substantial component of the United States’ crisis response system for literally homeless veterans. In FY 2013, approximately 18 percent of all sheltered homeless veterans were assisted to exit homelessness by an SSVF rapid re-housing program. This is expected to increase to approximately 34 percent for FY 2014. Over the same period, 92,577 veterans exited SSVF, with 80 percent successfully exiting to per...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . NDRC NOFA: Phase 2 Walkthrough This prerecorded webinar provides an overview of the Phase 2 NOFA Factors for the National Disaster Resilience Competition. Participants will learn: Understand the Phase 2 NOFA Factors. Training Point of Contact Sandy Patel | 210-710-7821 | Spatel@tdainc.org Access the Webinar Go to the Course detail page Watch the Recorded Webinar Review the Supportive Materials Select the Get Credit Button Note : You need a HUD Exchange Learn Account to Get Credit for this training To find out more information about upcoming ...

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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . NDRC: Design Innovation in Resilience This prerecorded webinar discusses some of the Rebuild by Design (RBD) approaches used by disaster-affected communities after Hurricane Sandy. Participants will learn: The Rebuild by Design (RBD) best practices. Training Point of Contact Sandy Patel | 210-710-7821 | Spatel@tdainc.org Access the Webinar Go to the Course detail page Watch the Recorded Webinar Review the Supportive Materials Select the Get Credit Button Note : You need a HUD Exchange Learn Account to Get Credit for this training To find out...

Honolulu has found an innovative new option for housing its growing homeless population. When Honolulu wanted to find a new way to help its growing homeless population, it turned to an unlikely source: Old city buses. "We were looking at solutions and options that are out there that are within our grasp," says Jun Yang, executive director of the office of housing for the City and County of Honolulu. "What do we have at our fingertips?" The local government had learned about Lava Mae, a new program in San Francisco that turns decommissioned buses into portable showers for the homeless. Honolulu, it turned out, also has a large supply of old buses. Right now, about 70 are slated to go out of service. Eventually, the buses would have been recycled and scrapped. "They would have run them to the ground," says Yang. "They would have run them beyond their useful life. At that point, they probably would have cannibalized th...

OPINION: Advocate recalls how "housing first" ethos 10 years ago helped city find permanent housing for people living in St. Vincent de Paul Park Lauren Siegel  July 8, 2015 at 12:43 pm  Story Link   19 Homeless veteran Larry Peterson watching on June 27 as city workers clear the encampment where he had been living on the side of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Photo by: Ben Halvorsen Beginning in 2005, I found housing for 32 people who were homeless and living in the park adjacent to St Vincent de Paul Church, a tiny square of land that sits empty now, on the corner of Fayette and President Streets. Thanks to an experimental program called Housing First that provided some funds and housing vouchers – a city program – I was able to get them all into apartments, obtain furniture, and secure public benefits. Today, Housing First is not honored in practice. The city is  tearing down encampments  with no permanent housing in place...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Register Today: Emergency Solutions Grants Program: Using IDIS for Financial Management Webinar - July 23, 2015 - 2:00 PM EDT This presentation is the first of three webinars designed to provide an overview of how recipients can use IDIS for effective financial management of their Emergency Solutions Grants program. This introductory webinar reviews the implementation of Grant Based Accounting principles for ESG, highlights the key ESG financial management capabilities of IDIS data, identifies the components of ESG financial management reports in IDIS, and b...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Guidance on Grant Based Accounting for Formula Grantees HUD has updated the Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS) to phase out the first-in-first-out (FIFO) accounting methodology. These changes to  IDIS  ensure that formula grant funds are committed and disbursed in IDIS on a grant-specific basis, instead of using the FIFO (oldest money disbursed first) method that has been used for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME), and Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) Programs to dat...