HUD has recently funded a Homelessness
Prevention Study, which will support a rigorous process study of
the homelessness prevention programs that have been established by
communities using the funding awarded under the Homelessness
Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP) authorized under
ARRA. The study design includes a survey of a
nationally-representative sample of HPRP grantees, as well as site
visits to 15-18 grantees to collect data on the recently
established prevention programs.
The ARRA-funded
prevention programs that are the focus of this research effort are
time-limited grant programs of only three years, and the majority
of programs began operations in the late summer of 2009. Therefore,
there is a limited window of time to observe and study these
programs before they conclude in the summer of 2012. The recently
enacted HEARTH Act will provide communities with the opportunity to
dedicate more homeless assistance resources than ever before to
homelessness prevention through the new Emergency Solutions Grant
(ESG) Program beginning in 2011, and the provision of guidance,
best practices, and the development of evidence-based programs will
be critical to the most efficient and effective use of this new
funding stream for homelessness prevention.
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USC 1701z-1 Name of Law: Research and Demonstrations
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