September 28 is the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition’s Annual Meeting, as well as its annual joint meeting with the Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness
The State of Vermont is proposing systematic changes in its delivery of housing services to the homeless population. Two potential programs that may stem from these changes are a state-funded security deposit guarantee program and a renter risk pool.
After one year of entering into a contract with the Agency of Human Services to cover the after-hours emergency housing assistance, more than 1,300 calls were received by Vermont 2-1-1. Of these requests for after-hours emergency housing, 329 callers were eligible for housing assistance. Alternate shelter was found for 451 of the remaining 1,015 callers who did not qualify for emergency housing. The majority of requests for emergency housing are from single individuals.
Vermont will be able to permanently house 15 more homeless Veteran households in affordable housing with supportive services available thanks to a recent award to the Vermont State Housing Authority. The funding is from the U.S.
The Chittenden Continuum of Care (CoC) is seeking grant writing services to prepare an application under HUD’s Fiscal Year 2011 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Continuum of Care (CoC) Homeless Assistance Competition. As of the issuance of this RFP, HUD has not yet published the NOFA.
WCAX-TV Channel 3 aired a story last week about the challenges Vermont's homeless encounter when seeking help.
As a follow-up to Gov. Shumlin's June 7 "Housing the Homeless Summit," the Agency of Human Services is seeking your comments.
The Agency has created a Web site to accept your comments about the summit and the topics covered.
You'll also find a number of proposals presented at the summit available for download as PDFs.
Earlier this month, Vermonters gathered at the Governor's Housing the Homeless summit in Montpelier to discuss the problem of homelessness in Vermont.
The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) this week released its "2010 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress."
This past Tuesday's Governor's Summit on Housing the Homeless was written up in the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus.
Read the article online (subscription required).