http://npach.org/ The National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness is a grass roots anti-poverty organization. Our mission is to ensure that national homelessness policy accurately reflects the needs and experiences of local communities. en Copyright 2010 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:19:16 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ]]> http://npach.org/2010/01/president_talks_about_importan_1.html http://npach.org/2010/01/president_talks_about_importan_1.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:19:16 -0500 Read the report here.]]> http://npach.org/2009/12/new_report_how_schools_can_hel_1.html http://npach.org/2009/12/new_report_how_schools_can_hel_1.html Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:12:56 -0500 visit the NAEHCY website. ]]> http://npach.org/2009/11/homeless_and_foster_education_1.html http://npach.org/2009/11/homeless_and_foster_education_1.html Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:29:13 -0500 Community Shelter Board in Columbus, Ohio - an umbrella organization that oversees housing and services programs for homeless persons in Columbus. We welcome Ms. Poppe to her new role, and look forward to working productively with the Council to ensure that federal efforts to end homelessness are properly coordinated. Our views on how to make this happen were laid out in a memo sent to the Obama transition team. Many of these recommendations have already been implemented - others remain to be accomplished. We will discuss these views with Executive Director Poppe once she officially begins her work. We have long focused significant effort on monitoring the Interagency Council. We've raised strong objections to the Council's singular focus on "chronic" homelessness and its effort to place responsibility for ending homelessness on state and local government and local service providers, while downplaying the role of the federal government. We've exposed the Council's focus on travel and photo opportunities over substantive work. And we've criticized the Council's refusal to put a meaningful focus on ending homelessness for children, youth, and families. We hope and expect that the Council will change course and address these concerns under its new leadership.]]> http://npach.org/2009/10/us_interagency_council_on_home.html http://npach.org/2009/10/us_interagency_council_on_home.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:42:28 -0500 Foreclosure to Homelessness report released this summer by NPACH and a group of national homelessness advocacy organizations, the New York Times reported yesterday on former homeowners who, after losing their housing due to a foreclosure, are now homeless. The story relates the reality of homelessness today -- that it can often involve staying with friends and family, or living in motels, for both brief and lengthy periods of time. In doing so, it provides support for our view that the HUD definition of homelessness must reflect these living situations. We look forward to HUD's upcoming release of new draft regulations regarding the definition of homelessness as amended in last spring's HEARTH Act -- our comments will be focused on ensuring that communities have the maximum possible flexibility to cover people in their area who are truly without housing.]]> http://npach.org/2009/10/ny_times_focuses_on_postforecl_1.html http://npach.org/2009/10/ny_times_focuses_on_postforecl_1.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:25:36 -0500 column calling on the media to cover homeless children -- not Balloon Boy!]]> http://npach.org/2009/10/cover_homeless_kids_not_balloo_1.html http://npach.org/2009/10/cover_homeless_kids_not_balloo_1.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:18:13 -0500 National Center for Housing and Child Welfare.]]> http://npach.org/2009/10/new_family_unification_program.html http://npach.org/2009/10/new_family_unification_program.html Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:57:38 -0500 Read the report.]]> http://npach.org/2009/09/new_report_says_mississippis_p_1.html http://npach.org/2009/09/new_report_says_mississippis_p_1.html Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:10:45 -0500 here.]]> http://npach.org/2009/07/hud_releases_new_notice_offers_1.html http://npach.org/2009/07/hud_releases_new_notice_offers_1.html Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:18:45 -0500 here.]]> http://npach.org/2009/07/hud_funding_for_fy_2010_a_prom_1.html http://npach.org/2009/07/hud_funding_for_fy_2010_a_prom_1.html Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:48:20 -0500 Last week, HUD released its annual Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR), containing data on homelessness through September, 2008. As with all past AHARs, the data paints a thoroughly incomplete picture, as it does not count individuals and families temporarily staying with others, or living at their own expense in motels. Individuals and families in these dire circumstances are erroneously viewed as housed, to be considered homeless only when they wind up on the streets or in emergency shelters. The newly passed HEARTH Act requires HUD to begin defining many of these individuals and families as homeless. This is a good, though woefully incomplete, first step toward providing them with the housing and supportive services they need. Unfortunately the bill also contains troubling language that would inhibit HUD's ability to gather data any of the newly added groups - it simply prohibits the Secretary from requiring communities to count people living in these conditions. Presumably, this was done out of a concern that undertaking such counts would be difficult. But we have to try - without reasonable local estimates of the prevalence of homelessness, even as newly defined by HUD, how can communities properly plan to address it? http://npach.org/2009/07/npach_comment_on_release_of_ne_1.html http://npach.org/2009/07/npach_comment_on_release_of_ne_1.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:04:38 -0500 Read the article]]> http://npach.org/2009/07/the_challenges_of_overcoming_p.html http://npach.org/2009/07/the_challenges_of_overcoming_p.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:30:04 -0500 http://www.familiesusa.org.]]> http://npach.org/2009/07/health_care_reform_and_homeles_1.html http://npach.org/2009/07/health_care_reform_and_homeles_1.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:58:49 -0500 Read the report]]> http://npach.org/2009/07/national_organizations_release_1.html http://npach.org/2009/07/national_organizations_release_1.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:10:04 -0500 website.]]> http://npach.org/2009/07/hud_awards_family_unification_1.html http://npach.org/2009/07/hud_awards_family_unification_1.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:58:57 -0500