Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance Program

2506-AC31 201410 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 2506 Office of Community Planning and Development CPD 2500 Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing: Emergency Solutions Grants Program and Consolidated Plan Conforming Amendments (FR-5474)

This rule continues HUD's implementation of the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 (HEARTH Act), enacted into law on May 20, 2009. The HEARTH Act consolidates three of the separate homeless assistance programs administered by HUD under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act into a single grant program, revises the Emergency Shelter Grants program and renames it the Emergency Solutions Grants program, and creates the Rural Housing Stability program to replace the Rural Homelessness Grant program. The HEARTH Act also codifies in law the Continuum of Care planning process, long a part of HUD's application process to assist homeless persons by providing greater coordination in responding to their needs. This rule would finalize the regulations to implement the new Emergency Solutions Grants program. The new Emergency Solutions Grants program replaced the Emergency Shelter Grants program. While emergency shelter remains an important component of the Emergency Solutions Grants program, this new program would place a greater focus on homeless prevention and rapid re-housing of the homeless.

]]> Other Significant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Proposed Rule Stage No No 24 CFR 576 24 CFR 91 42 USC 11371 42 USC 3535 (d) Statutory Final 05/20/2010 Regulations governing operation of programs created or affected by HEARTH Act of 2009. No Interim Final Rule 12/05/2011 76 FR 75954 NPRM Comment Period End 02/03/2012 NPRM Comment Period Reopened 01/00/2015 Final Action 02/00/2016 No No Local State No No No No Ann Marie Oliva Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance Program 2506 Office of Community Planning and Development CPD 202 402-4497 451 7th Street SW., Washington DC 20410