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Since 1860 the federal government has been actively involved with the housing industry, specifically the low-income housing industry. In 1860 the government conducted the first partial census of housing—by counting slave dwellings. Twenty years later the U.S. census focused on the living quarters of the rest of the population,
conducting a full housing census. Since then the federal governm…
Widespread public outcry over the plight of the homeless in the early 1980s prompted Congress to pass the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987. Congress renamed the act the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act in 2000 (H.R. 5417) to honor Representative Bruce Vento's service to the homeless. The range and
reach of the act has broadened over the years. Most of the money auth…
The national effort to provide housing for those in need is far more massive than would be indicated by the expenditure of about $1.5 billion on assistance to the homeless. HUD's expenditures on public and Native American housing were projected to be $23.8 billion in FY 2005. (See Table 5.2.) If these funds are added to
projected expenditures on homeless programs, total spending on subsidiz…
HUD's FY 2005 budget anticipated funding for 1.2 million public housing units. Public housing has been decreasing in numbers (1.37 million in 1998, for example), in part because of an initiative to remove, modernize, and refurbish many poorly constructed and dilapidated public housing units. An estimated 3,150 public housing
authorities manage the 1.2 million units. In FY 2005, $2.7 billion…
As a result of the 1992 recommendations of the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing, Congress authorized $300 million for an urban revitalization demonstration program in the FY 1993 Appropriations Act. The program came to be named HOPE VI. The acronym stands for Housing Opportunities for People
Everywhere. Up to that point, HUD had four different HOPE initiatives; no HOPE V w…
Voucher programs pay a portion of the rent for qualifying families. Only low-income families are eligible, specifically those with incomes lower than half of an area's median income. Under some circumstances, families with up to 80% of the local median income may also qualify; such cases may involve, for instance, families
displaced by public housing demolition. The family pays 30% of its i…
The two biggest low-income housing programs in the United States are public housing and the Section 8 programs. Section 8 funds are distributed under HUD's Housing Certificate Fund. Other HUD programs fund housing for people living with AIDS (Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS, or HOPWA), elderly people, Native
Americans and Native Hawaiians, and persons with disabilities. A new 20…
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over 1 year ago
Dustie
This is not freakin' helpful at all.
over 2 years ago
abby
can you please put up more information about homelessness because im doing a research paper on it and it's been really hard to find websites that actually know what they're talking about.
over 1 year ago
Iam homeless person need asst in
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almost 2 years ago
Hello sir/madam
I am from very poor family plz help me for my better future i have no job I have no home and i have no mony also plz send me donation i will be very thanksfull to you, my mother is heart petiont and i have no mony for her medisone sir plz understand my problem and help me.
10 months ago
Kaiolani Martinez
The government has made me homeless. I came to Washington state under the ARRA act. My employer took the Federal money and did not pay her 3 employees who were here fulfilling her contract according the the GSA guidelines and the contract. The contract officer discovers this and terminates her contract, Great but what about us. Now I am still waiting for her to pay on the judgement I won at the Dept of Labor, over 16,000.00 which I was to receive, but its only on paper, my employer replies. I have contacted assemblymen, Senators, Inspector Generals Office. No one can do anything. She STOLE government money and promised to do certain things with it, and instead bought a car. No the government does nothing and actually hands money out for free to companies and does not audit it very well. I know I performed audits.
12 months ago
hey were low in come we need a place to live my number is 805-403-7105
how do i get one a place off of you
about 1 year ago
over 50,000 homeless in Los Angeles
To Donald Holt of "LAHSA" - . . . yeah, per these: http://www.lahsa.org/homelessness_data/results.asp, care or not, but who you, etc ? kidding? bottomline, you, etc ? think, me knowing very and all too well what's up, regardless of being amidst lowest class, hence, I'm just a smart guy that is (?) to see thing's all to clear = that I'm just sit in some shelter for 20 year's until one feels compelled to getting around to proccessing my butt for a unit? Ray Brewer/LA HUD and etc talks the same junk = call 2 - 1 - 1 info line, when clearing the overall rountine is - merry go round of the process of moving in need not really going anywhere, rounded up and contained downtown LA - skid row, yeah, all that and worse and you know it. Since 2005, I've managed to create and run my own little odd job business (you think I'm throwing that away or letting anyone take that away from me, even ruin it)? See: http://www.jeffreydavidmorris.com I'm all over the web / internet, old school, and am not one to be &^%$# with, I don't care who some human is. God sees all, all/each have a Heaven life record, whew, you human's of 7 billion plus, what you all have done, are still doing and are yet to do, prior to Jesus returning, sigh, JC has shown me through His word thing's (His choice though I'm not worthy) - a different way of seeing and looking at that which is right there in God's Word, thus, POWER holder's, huh, so much blood on their hands, lives ruined and destoryed, 9-1-1, just everything, I just got no word's anymore for anything. When God calls back this/my soul, BAM, I'm out of here, but until then I gotta live with ya all, but not rotting in some shelter for year's. I'm better off trying to network with local private residential civilian's of South Bay.
I'm just another low income civilian like anyone else homeless out there, just that I'm all too smart of and about what's going on and for year's, if not decade's. I use to believe in - that you all out there were honest, truthful, and really did help people, boy was I wrong, dead wrong. Really what it comes down to is: 51,240 homeless are really left to fen for themselves and to some, if homeless don't like it, hell, no one's keeping anyone down here, they (?) can check out any time, right? Yeah, ill whatever. Meanwhile, LA dept say that is responsible for record keeping say, of all the in general, but residential zoneable property vacant lot's all throughout LA County, past corrupt history of HACLA, oh and remember this (below) ie: agencies calling out on each other - whistle blowing, oh yeah, you vast agencies can 'put somebody up', but that individual can kiss their life good bye, and you know. Suzh in denial and ? is in denial, solely covering their own agency butt, then, you all need money? Well all you out there compete with each other unto the $$$ foundation's to stay afloat not for anything re: client's, but solely for your own agenda's. Well, maybe I'm pestamissic, but clearly what I've seen in 11 year's, including the 5 I was involved with section 8, never know just what the hell I had walked into, thus, I got out after 5 year's. But amidst that time, I was at one property under section 8, I had personally $ - 7 LADWP night time light's under my belt, and other self $ voluntary effort's on and was involved with keeping inside/outside property clean (ie: vacuuming, wiping down hand rail's, cleaning windows, etc), despite the lazy manager wasn't gonna do anything. Yeah, over all, the picture . . . I speak of, is of such &^%$#@ no one in their right mind would dare clearly come forth and admoit it. The picture I speak of, is alot like that of what I've seen of humanity in the 4 decade's plus while I've been down here out of God like any of you/anyone else, amidst you human's (take that however you want). This is what humanity has created for itself. You, PATH, etc of you out there. Remember this:
Despite I’ve heard back in the day: http://laist.com/2006/02/04/la_homeless_authority_under_fire.php, then review: type in and go to: http://www.archive.org, then type in – the ‘Way Back Machine’: http://www.epath.org/blog/2006/02/do-you-rob-peter-to-pay-paul.htm OR go to: http://www.povertyinsights.org/2006/02/03/import-280 = Joel John Roberts, Email: joelr@epath.org, CEO of PATH Partners (People Assisting The Homeless), the LA Homelessness Examiner writer for Examiner.com, publisher of Poverty Insights, frequent writer of opinion pieces on homelessness and housing, and the author of the book, "How To Increase Homelessness", and at: http://www.joeljohnroberts.com, and http://www.linkedin.com/in/joeljohnroberts - having to call out – on LAHSA = local agencies calling out on each other = Central LA’s – LA City/County local gov official’s, corruption amidst “HACLA” and like wise residential inspection agencies – slum, code violator owner’s, manager’s, misc/etc; like with anything else , hence, just too vast to state and go over all. But you get the idea.
Do You Rob Peter To Pay Paul?
By Joel John Roberts / Feb 3, 2006
This is the six million dollar question… The Daily News continues its reporting on the accusations of financial mismanagement of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA). Here is the article - http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3470249, hence, it’s not there but could be viewed by going to: http://www.archive.org, then type in – the ‘Way Back Machine’, and typing in: http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3470249.
They report that LAHSA used HUD (federal Department of Housing and Urban Development) funds to pay items (“emergency bills”) that in HUD regulations violated federal rules. In other words… they “commingled” funds. HUD did not know about it.
LAHSA “commingled” $1.7 million in HUD funds. The consequences of these actions could be HUD suspending LAHSA from receiving HUD funds (approximately $60 million per year) or making LAHSA return the $1.7 million.
This is a good (or really bad) case study on nonprofit management…
Do you take funds from another source to pay emergency items, like paying homeless agencies their bills before they go out of business? Even though using these funds could risk losing future funds?
I don’t think so…
Risking $1.7 million (or worse) is not worth it. Creative management would mandate that you don’t do something illegal to keep the doors open. (The ends don’t justify the means.)
Take out a line of credit, or borrow money from a government or private entity until the financial issues are resolved. But don’t do anything that risks funding for homeless services in Los Angeles County. It is just not worth it…
Imagine having a few more hours in your day for what you REALLY want to do. Wouldn't it be great not to have to spend time and energy on household chores, on yard maintenance, on mundane errands?
And what if you could be free of these burdens AND have an extra $ a month in your checking account?
I'm offering all this in exchange for a 10' x 10' room in your home or guest house.
I will give you a set number of hours of work per week that we will mutually agree upon;
PLUS I can pay $ cash a month - all I am able to pay.
And you'll have a strong, healthy, reliable, resourceful assistant to free you up to enjoy life more fully. Less stress, more time to focus on things you need to attend to.
Excellent references upon request.
Thank you kindly and sincerely in advance; have a beautiful day/evening.
You can find me anywhere on the web/internet by searching: jeffreydavidmorris. It's all about the (key word's) you type 'in'. Meantime, feel free to visit me on my website: http://www.jeffreydavidmorris.com
--- On Wed, 5/9/12, Donald Holt wrote:
From: Donald Holt
Subject: RE: Don Holt/LAHSA, hi, Jeff Morris here, a word please?
To: "jeffreydavidmorris@yahoo.com"
Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 8:07 PM
Good afternoon
LAHSA helps place individuals/families in shelter and connect individuals/families to access centers to help with obtaining shelters, if this is something you may be interested in LAHSA will be more than happy to work with you regarding shelter placement. We have had some discussions surrounding this and I am not able to find housing for you in that area for $300 dollars and employment to cover the rest of the cost. There may be some social service agencies in the area you would like to reside in that I can research and connect you to that may be able to provide further assistance with your housing request. My direct contact information is located below In bold print if you would like to call and further discuss these options I have presented, I understand the desire to remain in the area you specified but it may be helpful to explore other options that will be temporary until you are able to secure something more permanent. I look forward to hearing from you if you are interested.
Respectfully,
Donald Holt
ERT / HCFP Supervisor
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
811 Wilshire Blvd., 6th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017
dholt@lahsa.org
PH: 213-225-6557
Fax: 213-892-0092
-A Joint Powers Authority Created by the City and County of Los Angeles-
P Please consider the environment before printing this email
From: Jeffrey David Morris [mailto:jeffreydavidmorris@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 8:36 PM
To: Donald Holt
Subject: Re: Don Holt/LAHSA, hi, Jeff Morris here, a word please?
Aside from other's, I personally am tired of feeling like a prisoner of my own circumstance's, being: a lack of housing, ie: South Bay rental room amidst someone of over 472,000. For some, be it, low income but can just as well be of worth unto a person or people, pay a rent cost and open and willing to provide a free work duties and task's. Problem is, with sad exhibited shunning, ignoring, misc, is it to be assumed then that people are more in denial than they care to admit, that anyone of low income is of no worth unto anyone above them in class, even that if seems exhibited that locally life just goes on when really, thing's aren't really flowing, hence, are at a stand still, though some people wouldn't care to stop and observe that. What kind of people are we as a whole, say, locally, when people speak this and that and what? Nothing. Whew, sigh. I mean, my god, is anyone kidding me? Yeah, I get more than I care to admit.
Imagine having a few more hours in your day for what you REALLY want to do. Wouldn't it be great not to have to spend time and energy on household chores, on yard maintenance, on mundane errands?
And what if you could be free of these burdens AND have an extra $ a month in your checking account?
I'm offering all this in exchange for a 10' x 10' room in your home or guest house.
I will give you a set number of hours of work per week that we will mutually agree upon;
PLUS I can pay $ cash a month - all I am able to pay.
And you'll have a strong, healthy, reliable, resourceful assistant to free you up to enjoy life more fully. Less stress, more time to focus on things you need to attend to.
Excellent references upon request.
Thank you kindly and sincerely in advance; have a beautiful day/evening.
You can find me anywhere on the web/internet by searching: jeffreydavidmorris. It's all about the (key word's) you type 'in'. Meantime, feel free to visit me on my website: http://www.jeffreydavidmorris.com
--- On Tue, 3/6/12, Donald Holt wrote:
From: Donald Holt
Subject: Don Holt/LAHSA, hi, Jeff Morris here, a word please?
To: "jeffreydavidmorris@yahoo.com"
Cc: "councilmember.wesson@lacity.org" , "councilman.rosendahl@lacity.org" , "councilmember.englander@lacity.org" , "councilmember.garcetti@lacity.org" , "councilmember.huizar@lacity.org" , "councilmember.buscaino@lacity.org" , "Austria, Kathleen"
Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 12:18 AM
Thanks for the e mail, my objective is to try and provide a service to you and see exactly what you are seeking regarding your housing situation. It would really be helpful to have a contact number for you so I could gather some key information needed to properly refer you to shelter. As I stated in my last e mail to you I don’t know of an agency that will allow you to work and pay $300 dollars to rent a room, we also discussed the area you would like to reside in and wanting to remain in that area due to your storage being there and possible employment opportunities. I also mentioned possibly going into a paid shelter where you would possibly have to share a room but I was unclear if this is something you will be receptive to. Please feel free to give me a call.
Respectfully,
Donald Holt
ERT / HCFP Supervisor
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
811 Wilshire Blvd., 6th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017
dholt@lahsa.org
PH: 213-225-6557
Fax: 213-892-0092
-A Joint Powers Authority Created by the City and County of Los Angeles-
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over 1 year ago
I have received no help through the agencies of Chenango County concerning my homeless status.
I was evicted from my home in August and still have no place to live.
Why do these agencies exsist, if not to aid the situation?
Please tell me where I can get immediate help.
This is a critical time.
D.M.B. 11/22/11
eldayne@gmail.com