CURRENT PRIORITIES

HEARTH Act Implementation

The Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act of 2009, enacted into law on May 20, 2009, consolidates HUD's competitive homelessness assistance grant programs and names this merger, the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program. The Continuum of Care (CoC) Program interim rule was published in the Federal Register on July 31, 2012 and became effective August 30, 2012.
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HUD Section 811 Program Update

On May 15, 2012, HUD released its FY 12 Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities Project Rental Assistance Demonstration (PRA Demo) Program NOFA. The PRA Demo NOFA announced the availability for the first time of $85 million in Section 811 PRA Demo funding to identify, stimulate, and support innovative state-level partnerships and strategies that will increase permanent supportive housing opportunities. Two-thirds of the states applied for this first Section 811 PRA Demo NOFA. On February 12, 2013, HUD announced that it had selected 13 states to participate in the Section 811 PRA Demo.
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA)

On June 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the individual mandate portion of the ACA is constitutional. It was the majority opinion of the court that the Congress does have the power to impose a tax penalty on those who choose not to comply with the requirement to maintain minimum essential health insurance coverage. On the question of the Medicaid expansion, the court decided that Congress cannot take away all federal funding for states that elect not to expand their program. In other words, states that want to move forward with expanding their Medicaid program can and receive federal funding in order to do so, but if a state does not want to expand, they cannot lose their federal funding for their entire program.
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Federal Budget - Fiscal Year 2014

On April 10, 2013, the Obama Administration released its fiscal year (FY) 2014 Budget Proposal. The President's budget is the first step in the long process of enacting FY14 spending levels and will continue throughout the summer when Congress will begin work on annual appropriations bills. 
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