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		<title>Sorry for the long silence&#8230; please check out our new home!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for your interest in Funders Together&#8217;s Homelessness Ends Here blog. We&#8217;re pleased to announce that we have a permanent new home for the blog, where we&#8217;ll feature an ever-expanding array of perspectives from experts and foundation leaders in national efforts to end homelessness. We look forward to seeing you there!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=funderstogether.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036523&amp;post=275&amp;subd=funderstogether&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foundations, City Fund Major Evaluation of Chicago&#8217;s Plan to End Homelessness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Community Trust and the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness have announced the launch of a two-year study to gauge progress in the city's plan to end homelessness.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=funderstogether.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036523&amp;post=262&amp;subd=funderstogether&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama Announces Important Housing Initiative for People with Disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 22, 2009, the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision, President Barack Obama announced a new Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher initiative as part of “The Year of Community Living” – a new and ground-breaking effort to assist people with the most significant and long-term disabilities to live independent and fulfilling lives in the community. The Obama Administration’s announcement sends a strong signal to the affordable housing community – including the nation’s Public Housing Agencies – that the housing needs of people with disabilities are a high priority.  

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		<title>President Understands Need to Control Healthcare Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) believes community-based health services linked to permanent housing for homeless people facing serious medical and behavioral challenges should be an integral part of comprehensive reform. Supportive housing helps connect our nation's most vulnerable people to the most appropriate and cost-effective healthcare services. Without this connection, many homeless persons go without access to health services, other than expensive emergency interventions that may address a crisis, but cannot effectively address their long-term needs.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=funderstogether.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036523&amp;post=249&amp;subd=funderstogether&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humanizing Homelessness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times is developing quite a niche in reporting on homelessness. Thankfully, these columns tend to not focus on the negative, but rather uncover the personal stories of people struggling against the odds to overcome homelessness and poverty.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=funderstogether.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036523&amp;post=246&amp;subd=funderstogether&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>United States Interagency Council on Homelessness Convenes for First Full Council Meeting of Obama Administration</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness shared highlights of it's first Full Council meeting of the Obama Administration, including the appointment of U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan as Chairperson, and statements from President Obama and several of the Council members on their expectations for the work of this important cross-agency partnership. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=funderstogether.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036523&amp;post=241&amp;subd=funderstogether&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting up close and personal: The value of learning tours to gain insights into responding to homelessness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to describe the value of actually seeing the work going on in communities first-hand. It is one thing (and quite helpful) to read reports about what is happening in a given system. But that up close and personal approach–where a visitor can get the actual flavor of what is happening on the ground–to see and experience the work as it is unfolding in a given setting–is invaluable.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=funderstogether.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036523&amp;post=236&amp;subd=funderstogether&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>House Committee on Veterans Affairs Holds Hearing on Ending Veterans&#8217; Homelessness</title>
		<link>http://funderstogether.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/house-committee-on-veterans%e2%80%99-affairs-holds-hearing-on-ending-veterans%e2%80%99-homelessness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, chaired by Congressman Bob Filner, held a hearing this week on “A National Commitment to End Veterans’ Homelessness.”  In opening remarks at Wednesday’s hearing, Chairman Filner noted that the Committee and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, who is also the current chair of the U.S. Interagency Council [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=funderstogether.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036523&amp;post=229&amp;subd=funderstogether&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Fischer, Senior Policy Analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, testifies on importance of Section 8 Voucher Reform Act in preventing family homelessness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEVRA would enable state and local housing agencies to use available funds to make housing affordable to more needy families, a crucial measure at a time when poverty and homelessness are rising. In addition, it would sharply reduce administrative burdens for housing agencies and private owners, strengthen work supports, and provide more flexible and effective assistance to low-income families<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=funderstogether.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036523&amp;post=226&amp;subd=funderstogether&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A White House Committed to Ending Homelessness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 15:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the sweep of his pen, President Barack Obama has accomplished what many of us have been fighting for since the early part of this century: the re-invigoration of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act and a new focus on ending homelessness. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=funderstogether.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7036523&amp;post=221&amp;subd=funderstogether&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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