Taken from a brief sent out by the National Alliance to End Homelessness:
House Committee Approves McKinney-Vento Reauthorization Bill
Last Thursday, July 31, the House Financial Services Committee unanimously voted in favor of H.R. 840, the HEARTH Act, legislation introduced by the late Representative Julia Carson (D-IN) and Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY) to reauthorize HUD's McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants program. The bill passed with a manager's amendment offered by Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) and Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA). The manager's amendment makes the bill similar to the
The approved manager's amendment would slightly expand the HUD definition of homeless to include individuals temporarily in institutional care who will become homeless upon leaving, those who will imminently lose their housing that lack the resources to find alternative housing, those who will be evicted within 14 days, those living in a motel or doubled up who either lack the resources to stay for more than 14 days or must leave within 14 days, and those fleeing domestic violence.
This is significant in that the definition for homelessness includes families in motels and those doubled up- a big deal for us, since 80% of our callers are not "technically" homeless.
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