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.
Fuck if I know - let the wonks and professional advocates handle that part. It's our job to demand it gets put to use.
My understanding is that the prior policy -- a 75% cost share -- meant that states and municipalities could provide this type of assistance and 75% of the cost would be reimbursed by the feds. A 100% cost share would mean 100% of the cost is reimbursed.
So a city could provide non-congregate housing for its homeless population and the feds would comp the whole thing. The big limitations I see are that it's set to expire in September and "reimbursement" likely involves states/municipalities fronting the money, which could be a financial difficulty by itself.
I know someone who works in my local government and handles budgets. I’ll ask them tomorrow what they’re planning to do to help the homeless with this money and put some pressure to do whatever they can. Thank you for the reply.
Reading this and to be clear, unless I'm mistaken this is for COVID only, not for housing the homeless generally outside of the health crisis.
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).
But I wouldn’t keep my hopes up they’re gonna extend this to post-covid
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
I guess leathery shitmen are right twice a day.
I'm thinking we need to jump on this and make like we're training an animal, squirt bottle (strike) when they shit on the carpet (bomb civilians, do a sex crime), and give them a treat when they do something good, but how do we do that without donating to Biden?
how do we do that without donating to Biden?
When you're talking to libs, don't flatten it into "Biden sucks and everything he does sucks." They'll write you off as uninformed or unreasonable because occasionally Democrats do decent stuff like this. Acknowledge the decent stuff, then point out how he could be doing far more, and how he does some legitimately bad things, too.
