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Good Stories
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Promoting
a partnership between local, state and federal governments
to bring more housing to victims of domestic violence
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Fifty-four
affordable apartments developed in the Bronx
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With
SHP a Client Finds Home and Healing
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The
Supportive Housing Program is designed to develop supportive housing
and services that will allow homeless persons to live as independently
as possible. Eligible applicants are States, units of local government,
other governmental entities such as PHAs, and private nonprofits.
The
Supportive Housing Program Desk
Guide highlights key aspects of the Supportive Housing Program
(SHP). If you have further questions about the program or the application
process, please contact your local HUD Field Office. Grants under the Supportive Housing
Program are awarded through a national competition held annually.
The
Supportive Housing Program is authorized by Title
IV, Subtitle C, of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act
of 1987, as amended. It is designed to promote, as part of a local
Continuum of Care strategy, the development of supportive housing
and supportive services to assist homeless persons in the transition
from homelessness and to enable them to live as independently as
possible.
Assistance
in the Supportive Housing Program is provided to help homeless persons
meet three overall goals:
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achieve
residential stability,
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increase
their skill levels and/or incomes, and
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obtain
greater self-determination (i.e., more influence over decisions
that affect their lives).
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Specific
performance measures for each of these three goals must be established
based on the needs and characteristics of the homeless population
to be served. Grant recipients are required to monitor their clients'
progress in meeting their performance measures on an ongoing basis.
In addition to recordkeeping and evaluation that grantees may conduct
for their own purposes, HUD requires recordkeeping and annual progress
reports. The annual progress report includes questions that ask
grantees to report on their progress in meeting performance measures.
Grantees are expected to make changes in their program or adjust
performance measures in response to ongoing evaluation of their
progress.
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