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Create more low-income housing, and more people would have an address. More of them, in turn, would be able to find work, and they wouldn't need to depend so much on public assistance.

A newly renovated apartment building will soon open its doors to 16 of the District's most vulnerable single homeless women.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that it is awarding 2,500 rental assistance vouchers to 37 public housing authorities across the U.S. to reunite more than 7,500 children with their parents. The children are currently in foster care.

In response to the current economic crisis, The Kresge Foundation has established a new Community Relief Fund, a program-related investment fund that will make interest-free loans of $250,000 to $500,000 to human service organizations providing food, shelter and other emergency services.

A Yale study found that men who've been in Fresh Start have a 45% lower rate of ending up back in prison than the overall ex-offender population. And word is getting out in prisons, that because of Fresh Start, Bridgeport is the place to land when you get out.

As the economy becomes more of a challenge, so does the need for affordable housing in several northern Michigan communities. Two organizations are coming together to help construct a housing complex for homeless individuals in one area community.

Barbara Stafford will never forget the day she begged to stay in jail. It was the first day of the rest of her life. She was committed to getting clean but had no place to stay after her scheduled release, a dark Friday in 2003. All the shelters and inpatient drug rehab centers in Jacksonville were full.

In June 2004, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg made a lofty promise to address one of the city’s most intractable problems: he would reduce the homeless population of 38,000 by two-thirds in five years. Today, with the total homeless population down only slightly, and with more families in shelters than five years ago, the administration is seeking state approval for a new set of policies designed to move families out more quickly, applying the same market-driven, incentive-based philosophy to homeless shelters that it has used in schools and antipoverty programs.

SRO Housing Corporation has announced the grand opening of the James M. Wood Apartments, one of the first affordable housing developments made possible by the Permanent Supportive Housing Program (PSHP) of the Los Angeles Housing Department. Located on the corner of 5th and San Julian Streets, the James M. Wood Apartments are situated in the heart of “Skid Row.”

The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) met today for the first time under the Obama Administration. U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki chaired the meeting, at which U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan was elected rotating Chair for the upcoming year and U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis was elected Vice Chair. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Melody Barnes, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, attended the meeting.