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In recent months, AIG, General Motors, Wells Fargo and Citigroup have been handed billion-dollar bailouts by the government. Some of these corporations have hardly handled the largesse responsibly, partying and handing out bonuses like it's 1999. So where is the bailout for low-income residents who've been promised safe and affordable housing, only to have the rug yanked from under them?

The timeline documents the evolution of 10-year plans from the development of the first plan in 1998 to the present.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today awarded $300 million in Recovery Act funding to nearly 100 communities across the nation. The funding will rapidly re-house families who fall into homelessness, or prevent families from becoming homeless in the first place. The funding, provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, is also designed to help persons and families facing a sudden financial crisis that could lead to homelessness.

The Norfolk Foundation awarded $129,000 to Virginia Supportive Housing to launch programs to help formerly homeless people deal with addiction and mental health problems.

When the authors of Fort Worth’s 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness set a goal of creating or identifying 544 permanent supportive housing units for homeless residents by year six, some observers thought that an overly ambitious target. Yet on Thursday, just three months into the first year of Directions Home, officials announced that 112 people have moved out of homelessness and into apartments.

When the developer of the New Carver Apartments celebrates the building’s grand opening this week, at least one question will not be a point of concern: how to fill the 97 units.

A growing number of state residents are paying up to half their income for a place to live and one of the primary solutions for addressing the problem - building affordable housing - has run aground for lack of financing.

On cool summer mornings, Marjorie Lopes likes to take strolls around the courtyard of the Guy B. Love Towers in historic North Knoxville. The public housing complex has been the Sevier County native's home for over a year now, marking the longest time in her life that Lopes has kept residence at a single address.

Two University of Pennsylvania professors received a three-year, $1.4 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation to advance integrated data systems-based policy analysis and research as a field of professional practice.

The Skid Row Housing Trust is hosting a 20th Anniversary gala celebration to introduce the New Carver Apartments, on 17th and Hope Streets in Los Angeles, on Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 6:00pm. The New Carver Apartments development is the Trust's 22nd residential building for Los Angeles' homeless community.