President @JoeBiden makes funding for non-congregate sheltering of people who are homeless 100% reimbursable! Currently FEMA pays 75% & states/cities have to pay rest (& often can’t). We’ve pushed for this for 10 months.
Holy shit, they gave us a mile when they usually give an inch. Pass this news on to your orgs and pressure the fuck out of local leaders to get shelter for every person who needs it. Make some serious noise about this people.
But think of the ramifications. If we can house the homeless during a pandemic, why can't we in better times as well? If this is wholly taken advantage of it will be much harder to rip away later. It would most likely will happen anyways but it would bring attention to the crisis in a new light and give leftists a chance bring over succ dems and rad libs who get burned by it.
Oh, most definitely; that was never in question though. Just look at the empty housing in the US. But I wouldn't keep my hopes up they're gonna extend this to post-covid, this is just the bare, sane minimum any government should apply during a pandemic (my own country has done the same from the start, renting hotel rooms by the thousands for the homeless, but again, only during the pandemic).
Yes, but once something is granted it becomes something that is easier fought to keep than it would be to receive initially.
It will be something to hopefully rally around later when threatened