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Permanent Supportive Housing for Homeless in LA Advances with First Project from City’s $30 Million Fund :
May 20, 2008
City of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) celebrated the first loan award from a public and private partnership to L.A. Family Housing (LAFH) – a non-profit developer that will use the $3 million to support the development of Glenoaks Gardens to provide 60 units of permanent supportive housing.

Jul 13, 2008

Washington D.C.
What Will It Take to End Homelessness in DC
Published by The Washington Post
News Article
New initiatives and the resurrection of neglected plans have positioned the District to become a leader in homeless service systems -- a far cry from where it stood three years ago.

Jul 10, 2008

Expand Housing Assistance for Homeless Veterans
Published by Hudson Valley Press
News Article
Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) today helped the House pass the Homes for Heroes Act -- a bill that expands housing assistance and supportive services for homeless veterans.

Jul 10, 2008

Maryland
Homeless children to be United Way's top focus
Published by The Star Banner
News Article
The United Way of Marion County on Wednesday announced that the agency's top priority is homeless school-age children. Elder care was selected as a secondary focus.

Jul 09, 2008

North Carolina
Disabled housing in the works
Published by The Winston Salem Chronical
News Article
Less than a year ago, five agencies partnered in an unprecedented collaboration with a goal of providing adequate housing for low income and disabled local residents.

Jul 09, 2008

Arizona
$500,000 grant will fund rental housing for 70 homeless vets
Published by The Tucson Citizen
News Article
A federal program that will provide permanent rental housing here for 70 chronically homeless veterans also will benefit landlords.

Jul 06, 2008

Brother, can you spare a room?
Published by The Boston Herald
News Article
The painful experience of homelessness is ending for more than 200 Bay State veterans who are getting a chance to start over under a revived federal housing program that is providing $2.5 million in rental assistance.

Jul 05, 2008

Oklahoma
Funding Gives Boost to Tulsa Homeless Project
Published by Tulsa World
News Article
Oklahoma's Legislature is giving Tulsa a $2 million boost to help the mentally ill who wander the streets because they have no place to live.

Jul 03, 2008

Louisiana
President Signs Legislation Providing $73 Million for Innovative Supportive Housing Initiative in Louisiana
Press Release
Supportive housing advocates from Louisiana and across the country are celebrating legislation enacted today which provides $73 million in federal rental subsidies for the State of Louisiana’s Permanent Supportive Housing Initiative.

Jul 02, 2008

California
Take Homeless off S.F. Streets - Fully Fund Mental Health
Published by San Francisco Chronicle
News Article
Mental illness - like cancer - is physically based. Those afflicted can be disabled in person and brain, unable to live safely day to day. They require housing, but also day treatment, case management, substance-abuse assistance and vocational rehabilitation services.

Jul 02, 2008

New York
Jericho Project to Prevent Homelessness Among Veterans
Press Release
The Jericho Project, a 25-year old national leader in solving homelessness, is helping with its innovative Veterans Initiative including permanent supportive housing, comprehensive services and ongoing peer support. Two specially designed Veterans Residences will be in the Bronx, NY; and one is breaking ground this fall.

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