June 14, 2018
Please forward to your sub grantees and contact your OFAH grant manager
if you have any questions.
The Office of Family
and Adult Homelessness (OFAH) will be hosting grantee forums in October.
What is on the agenda?
Training on Coordinated Entry and Diversion
Forum on low- barrier expansion and targeting homelessness
prevention
Who should attend?
Lead and sub-grantee grant managers, direct service
providers of:
- Consolidated
Homeless Grant
- System
Demonstration Grant
-
Emergency
Solutions Grant
- HOME
Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Grant
- Homeless
Student Stability Grant
-
Balance
of State Continuum of Care leadership
When should I attend?
Eastern Washington
Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 – Spokane, Wash., Davenport Hotel
9 a.m. - 4 p.m. (lunch
provided)
OR
Western Washington
Monday, Oct. 29, 2018 – Olympia, Wash., Double Tree Hilton Hotel
9 a.m. - 4 p.m. (lunch
provided)
Registration begins Sept. 4.
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Beginning June 7, any
unaccompanied youth aged 13 or older may consent to have their personally
identifying information collected for the purposes of the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS). The HMIS team
recently sent out information on this change, as well as the following updated
documents:
-
HMIS
Agency Partner Agreement
- Client
Revocation of Consent
- HMIS
User Policy
- Informed
Consent Form
For more information,
listen to the June 13 webinar or contact Talia Scott talia.scott@commerce.wa.gov.
Commerce will update the Rapid
Re-Housing Dashboard with Quarter 3 data and will publish the Temporary
Housing Dashboard for Quarters 1 - 3 in late June.
The Temporary Housing Dashboard will display performance
outcome and contextual data about emergency shelters and transitional housing
projects in the Balance of State Counties.
HMIS Looker Users: You can run the same reports we
will be using for the dashboards. You will find them in the Shared Consolidated Homeless Grant
space.
If you have questions, please email emily.burgess@commerce.wa.gov
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You may not live in King County, but this new report
on the housing crisis and homelessness is relevant to most communities in
Washington state. Check out a recent article
that explains why, when economic growth is strong, housing developers tend to
build more profitable, expensive homes and homelessness increases.
"There are many triggers of homelessness—an unexpected
expense, the loss of a job, poor health, and domestic violence among them. But
the rapid decline in the stock of affordable housing means that when people
lose their homes, many of them find it hard to find a suitable alternative. As
one emergency-shelter provider said, “Ten years ago, our community had pockets
of cheap motels and apartments. When you hit rock bottom, you could still find
a roof. Today, there is no safe place for people to fall to. When crisis hits,
you fall to the street.”
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Did you know that in Washington state a minimum wage worker (earning
$11.50 per hour) would need to work 75 hours each week to afford a one-bedroom rental
home at fair market rent? The two-bedroom housing wage is $26.87 per hour.
Check out this new report
released by the National Low Income Housing Coalition. The data is an important
resource for stakeholders and can be used to educate communities on the high
cost of housing.
DBHR Monthly Topical Webinar
Thursday,
June 28 from 8:30 - 10 a.m.
Joanne Watson from the Fair Housing Center of Washington
will speak on reasonable accommodation/modification requests to include the
medical provider’s verification letters and why the letter is important for a
person with a disability. Information will also be provided on the new law
prohibiting income discrimination.
Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1262939029355239683
The 2018 NAEH Conference is right around the corner!
Registration is full. Balance of State Continuum of Care Program Manager, Matt Mazur-Hart,
will be there representing Commerce. Search him out to say "hello" if your'e attending.
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