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Annual
Homeless Assessment Report to Congress(AHAR)
http://www.huduser.org/publications/povsoc/annual_assess.html
HUD’s
Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress
(February 2007) unveiled new data from Continuums of
Care (CoC) that indicates 754,000 persons are living in
emergency shelter, transitional housing, and on the
streets on any given night. In addition, data from
Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS),
available for the first time, indicated that 704,000
persons used emergency shelter and transitional housing
during a three-month period (February-April) in 2005.
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Since 2001, HUD has awarded more than $9
billion to support thousands of local
housing and service programs throughout
the nation and is seeking a record $1.6
billion through the Department's
Continuum of
Care
grant programs for FY 2008. |
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HUD Secretary
Alphonso Jackson said, “This first report and those that
follow will help us gauge how well our efforts, as well
as those of our partners at the state and local level
and the nonprofit sector, are working to help the
homeless. We all must work in concert together to help
our nation’s most vulnerable.”
Read the Report at
http://www.huduser.org/publications/povsoc/annual_assess.html
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