Other Poverty Programs
- Continuum of Care Program (CoC) - provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, and State and local governments to quickly rehouse homeless individuals and families while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused to homeless.
- Emergency Solutions Grants Program (ESG) - providing assistance to assist persons who are literally homeless or at risk of homelessness to quickly regain stability in permanent housing.
- Rural Housing Stability Assistance Program (RHSP) - provide assistance for rural counties to re-house or improve the housing situations of individuals and families who are homeless, at risk of homelessness, or in the worst housing situations, stabilize the housing of individuals and families who are at risk of becoming homeless, and improve the ability of the lowest-income residents to afford stable housing.
- The Coalition for the Homeless
is a new program dedicated to proven solutions for the homeless through rights, prevention, and house-based solutions.
- It would take about $20 billion for the US government to eliminate homelessness, which is less than what is spent on Christmas presents in the US.
- Extended government shutdowns negatively affects poverty programs because they cease funding for them and some homeless people cannot be afforded the luxury of time.
- If the government put in $5 billion more per year into homelessness, it would be eliminated by 2025.
