HUD’s Proposed Rule Defining Homeless for Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing:

SUMMARY: This rule commences HUD’s regulatory 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 and creates the Emergency Solutions Grant Program and the Rural Housing Stability Program. The HEARTH Act also codifies in statutory 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. The HEARTH Act defines the terms “homeless,” “homeless individual,” “homeless person,” and “homeless individual with a disability,” but these definitions contain terms that require further elaboration. Since the scope of these terms is essential to the development of an appropriate regulatory structure for the homeless assistance programs as consolidated and amended by the HEARTH Act, HUD is initiating the rulemaking process with this proposed rule, which solely addresses the definition of these terms. DATES: Comment Due Date. June 21, 2010 For HUD’s proposed definition, click the Link: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/2010-8835.htm