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**UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS**

**FY 2009 CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET JUSTIFICATION**

**FEBRUARY 2009**

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**Message from the Executive Director**

February 2008

I am pleased to present the FY 2009 Congressional Budget Justification
for the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH).

The Interagency Council is implementing a comprehensive national
approach to realize the Administration's goal of ending homelessness,
with a priority on chronic homelessness, in the United States through
interagency, intergovernmental, and intercommunity partnerships and
collaborations. Federal partnerships with state and local government and
the private sector are the key element to facilitate efforts to achieve
the objectives of preventing and ending chronic homelessness. No one
level of government or one sector of the community can reach the goal
alone.

The accomplishments and planned activities reported herein reflect the
Interagency Council's incremental implementation of results-oriented
partnerships that extend from the White House to the streets, moving
through 20 federal agencies, 53 State Houses, 325 City Halls and County
Executive offices to the United Way, providers and advocates, Chambers
of Commerce, businesses and corporations, faith-based and community
organizations, and homeless people themselves. With strategies based on
research and with an expectation of quantifiable results, we are
pursuing expansive partnerships to reach our goal.

The Council's attention to cost-benefit analysis in relationship with
Governors and Mayors has created substantial new traction in cities and
states focusing new research, resources, and outcome-oriented strategies
on the issue of homelessness. We have successfully communicated that
homelessness is a national problem with local solutions and have ensured
that every level of government and every element of the private sector
has equal access to the most innovative ideas at the table of this
issue.

Just two months ago, the Administration was able to announce an
unprecedented documented decrease in street and chronic homelessness
across the nation based on locally reported data -- an 11.5% reduction
from 2005 to 2006: 20,000 people moved from the streets. This is the
quantifiable good news that is the first of its kind in the past quarter
century on the issue.

I am confident that we have many more accomplishments still to come. The
end result of our work will be visible, measurable, quantifiable
improvements in the quality of life across our country for all -- housed
and homeless alike. I am proud of our accomplishments to date and look
forward to building on our past successes to achieve new gains for the
American people.

*Philip F. Mangano, Executive Director\
United States Interagency Council on Homelessness*

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## Summary Statement

The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) FY 2009
Performance Budget requests \$2,660,000 in funding. The proposed funding
level represents an increase of \$339,372 or 15% over the requested FY
2008 Budget and \$510,000 or 24% over FY 2008's enacted budget of
\$2,150,000.

The mission of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness is
to coordinate the federal response to homelessness and to constellate a
national partnership at every level of government and every element of
the private sector to reduce and end homelessness in the nation. Since
its revitalization by President Bush in 2002, the Interagency Council as
an independent agency has carried out the President's commitment to end
chronic homelessness in the United States. In doing so, the Council has
forged an unprecedented national partnership that extends from the White
House to the streets and includes federal, state, and local government,
civic and business leaders, advocates, providers, consumers and
faith-based organizations.

The Council works to improve access to and coordination of federal
investments among its Council member departments and agencies; ensure
the effectiveness of federal activities and programs; engage and assist
state and local governments, advocates, service providers, and customers
in creating effective local solutions; and provide technical assistance
and evidence-based innovation and best practice information to partners
at every level of government, as well as the private sector.

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The Council fulfills a unique role in highlighting the basis in research
of federal initiatives to reduce and end homelessness, communicating
increases in targeted federal homelessness resources, rapidly
disseminating innovative ideas, and identifying homelessness strategies
that are innovative and produce results.

The Council is the only federal agency that coordinates the federal
response to homelessness. The 20 member agencies meet regularly to
coordinate programmatic and funding efforts, share information, reduce
duplication, and assure that their agencies' resources are available and
accessible to persons who are homeless. This unique role is created by
statute. The Council also recommends policy changes to improve such
assistance; and monitors and evaluates assistance to homeless persons
provided by all levels of government and the private sector.

The efficacy of the Council's work can best be measured by the
quantitative goals achieved in accomplishing measurable results as
described below. The Council has established a capacity and approach to
maintaining the momentum achieved to date in meeting the
Administration's goal and regularly monitoring quantifiable results in
the field. Further testimony is in the change in mind set in the country
on this issue that has been precipitated by the Council\'s work toward
the President\'s objective of ending homelessness for the most
vulnerable, most disabled, and most expensive. This change can be
measured by several indicators described here.

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[Interagency Collaboration - Federa]{.underline}l.** The Council is an
independent agency within the federal executive branch composed of 20
Cabinet Secretaries and agency heads. Meeting regularly at the White
House, the Council's Cabinet Chair is currently United States Department
of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt. The Chair of the
Council rotates annually. Since the Council was revitalized in 2002,
federal agencies have undertaken successful collaborative budget and
policy initiatives targeted to ending chronic homelessness, several of
which are described below.

Senior Policy designees of the Council's member agencies meet monthly
for interagency briefing and targeted work groups to develop
collaborations and increase coordination. These meetings include agency
faith-based directors to facilitate coordination of agencies' response
to and focus on homelessness within their own policy and budget
portfolios.

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**[Intergovernmental Collaboration]{.underline}.** As part of the
Council's strategy to establish non-partisan, intergovernmental
partnerships to end chronic homelessness, specific initiatives have been
fostered with state and local governments. To date, Governors of 53
states and territories have taken steps to create State Interagency
Councils on Homelessness that mirror the work of the federal Council and
its partnerships. Gubernatorial transitions in states have shown a
consistent record of solidifying, expanding, and strengthening state
commitment through Executive Orders for State Interagency Councils on
Homelessness, the development and implementation of statewide 10-Year
Plans, and the investment of state resources in the goal of ending
homelessness. Over 325 Mayors and County Executives have committed to
10-Year Plans to end chronic homelessness.

The creation of these partnerships has also resulted in new
intergovernmental partnership, as states including Michigan, Oregon,
North Dakota, and Washington have advanced state government initiatives
that encourage or require local 10-Year Plans with which state plans are
partnered. For example, in 2006, the State of Michigan directed the
development of 60 new 10-Year Plans covering all 83 of its counties,
providing a new model of federal, state, and local jurisdictional
partnership and planning. The state attached planning and incentive
resources to its initiatives to encourage local government to adopt
innovations.

The Council provides technical assistance to states and localities in
the development of these initiatives, including through on-site work by
its Regional Coordinators and the expeditious dissemination of
innovative best practices that are results-oriented. Toolkits developed
by the Interagency Council on State Interagency Councils on Homelessness
and 10-Year Plans have been distributed to government and civic leaders
in every state.

The Interagency Council has established the mechanism for the monitoring
of the quantifiable results being achieved in states and Cities across
the nation. To date we have determined through research involving over
100 10-Year Plan cities that, since 2003, over 39,770 units/tenancies of
targeted permanent supportive housing have been created or are in
development toward the goal of 150,000, with over \$3.42 billion in
state, local, and private investment leveraged to the goals of 10-Year
Plans.

Because of the direct and proven relation of effective implementation
strategies to partnership, investment, and results in ending
homelessness, the Council will emphasize implementation strategies and
results in its work with state and local partners during 2008.

**[Intercommunity Collaboration]{.underline}.** To carry out the
strategy of intergovernmental and inter-sector partnership, the Council
has developed community partnerships with the National Governors
Association, U.S. Conference of Mayors, National League of Cities,
National Association of Counties, United Way, Chamber of Commerce,
International Downtown Association, National Alliance for the Mentally
Ill, and the National Alliance to End Homelessness. Additionally, the
Council regularly convenes state and local officials, communicates with
national and local provider and advocacy organizations, and communicates
directly with homeless people to foster consumer-centric solutions.

In January 2007 the Council marked the fifth anniversary of its
partnership with the United States Conference of Mayors. A half decade
ago, on January 23, 2003, United States Interagency Council Executive
Director Philip Mangano addressed the plenary session of the United
States Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, DC, where he
challenged 100 Mayors to join the National Partnership being
constellated by the Council by committing to the creation of
jurisdictional 10-Year Plans to End Chronic Homelessness. Fewer than 5
cities had such jurisdictionally-led plans at the time; now more than
325 commitments have been made by Mayors and county officials.

The most recent development in the National Partnership with Mayors and
county officials was the convening in November 2007 by the Council with
government and philanthropic partners of a national summit of local
elected officials in Denver. The result of the Mayors and county
officials' work together was an unprecedented 12-point agreement -
*America's Road Home Statement of Principles and Actions -* now signed
by more than 150 Mayors and elected officials. *America\'s Road Home*
commits Mayors to work together in a housing-focused strategy that gives
special attention to the needs of veterans and involves partnership with
business, philanthropy, and community and faith-based organizations.

**[Technical Assistance and Support]{.underline}.** To administer and
facilitate the Council's mission at the local and regional level, the
Council has Regional Coordinators throughout the country. The
Interagency Council actively identifies and encourages the rapid
dissemination and replication of proven innovations that end
homelessness, and the performance expectation of its Regional
Coordinators is to work with federal partners and state and local
governments, homeless advocates, providers, and consumers to disseminate
innovations quickly and to encourage and coordinate their local
jurisdictional efforts to end chronic homelessness. The Coordinators
facilitate the creation of regional federal Interagency Councils and
State Interagency Councils, as well as jurisdictional 10-Year Plans.

**National Summit for Jurisdictional Leaders.** A key component of the
Council's rapid dissemination strategy is the successful and
well-received National Leadership Summit which in 2007 included
attendance and active participation by over 200 county, city, and state
leaders from 117 city and county jurisdictions, representing 42 states
and Territories, and served as a clearinghouse for innovations in ending
homelessness. National Summit for Jurisdictional Leaders includes "A
Home for Every American" Awards presented to public sector leaders,
community 10-Year Plan champions, innovators, and researchers. The
Council will continue the momentum gained during this convening as well
as from other targeted colloquy events for city and state government
leaders and strategic subject matter events (such as rural homelessness
and family homelessness). In 2008, these events will include regional
state government meetings and meetings of 10-Year Plan Champions.

**National Project Homeless Connect.** The Interagency Council, which
actively identifies and promotes the rapid dissemination and replication
of proven innovations that end homelessness, has encouraged the adoption
of the Project Homeless Connect engagement innovation in cities. Project
Homeless Connect (PHC), a one-day, one-stop event sponsored by Mayors
and other community leaders, mobilizes civic will to end homelessness
and engages volunteers from all walks of life to meet, support, and
assist people in accessing services and leaving the streets and
shelters. Project Homeless Connect is designed to provide housing,
services, and hospitality in a convenient and welcoming one-day,
one-stop model for people experiencing homelessness.

More than 150 cities have replicated the Project Homeless Connect model
to date, building on partnership and best practices demonstrated around
the nation that include volunteer and investment partnership with
universities, professional sports teams, members of the military, and
major businesses to meet the goals of local 10-year Plans. In just the
last year, almost 62,000 homeless neighbors have been welcomed by almost
30,000 volunteers in more than 150 cities.

In December 2007, the Council convened its Third Annual National Project
Homeless Connect Week in 25 cities and counties of every size, where
more than 10,000 homeless neighbors were welcomed into \"the living room
of the community\" by more than 4,000 elected officials and community
volunteers. Events are now a statewide strategy as well, and, in January
2007, 20 communities across New Jersey conducted a total of 42 events on
the same day, providing a new model of the PHC innovation.

More than 100 PHC events were implemented during 2007, a five-fold
increase over 2006. New event models included PHC's targeted to engaging
families and to youth. These events included PHC's targeted by the
Council to the April 2007 National Volunteer Service Week, and more than
20 during the month of October, convened in conjunction with local
United Way Days of Caring.

Since 2005, the Interagency Council has built a national network of
Project Homeless Connect expert practitioners, who volunteer to share
best practice and planning information with their city and county peers
across the country to support continued innovation and evolution of the
PHC model and positive outcomes for persons experiencing homelessness.
During 2007, the Council convened a half-day institute on PHC best
practices, a national audio conference on best practices for families,
and released Version 1.0 of a PHC best practices toolkit.

Experts also volunteer to host visiting "pilgrims" from other
jurisdictions who come to participate and observe PHC prior to their own
local events. City-to-city contacts and coordinated planning assisted
participating cities in executing events that ended homelessness for
some participants and put many on the road to recovery and self
sufficiency.

**Enhanced Partnerships.** Together, the Council and the public and
private sectors are creating planful partnerships, strategic solutions,
and innovative initiatives to reduce and end homelessness. In FY 2008
the Council will continue to build and expand its national partnerships
with business, civic, and private sector leaders, adding to the
established stakeholder groups partnering in the field.

In FY 2008 the Interagency Council will continue its statutory
activities of: 1) federal homeless program review; 2) governmental and
private programs evaluation;\
3) information distribution; and 4) provision of professional and
technical assistance. Expanded forums for disseminating current research
and best practices, as well as expanded and ongoing communications
activities, are required to sustain and expand the Interagency Council's
progress to date, support government and community partners allied with
Council initiatives, and forward the Administration's goal to end
chronic homelessness.

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## Interagency Council Initiatives

Homelessness is a national problem with local solutions. As such, the
Interagency Council has established a broad range of intergovernmental
partnerships to ensure a multi-jurisdictional approach to address it.
Federal partnerships with state and local governments are key to achieve
the objectives of preventing and ending chronic homelessness. The
Interagency Council plans the following activities to sustain its
accomplishments, expand its efforts to achieve the Administration's
goal, and continue to establish new partnerships. Expanded forums for
disseminating current research and best practices, as well as expanded
and ongoing communications activities, are required to sustain and
expand the Interagency Council's progress to date and support government
and community partners.

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####### Council Operations. The Interagency Council has held nine full Council meetings since its revitalization. The Interagency Council's Cabinet Chair is currently Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt. 

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####### The Interagency Council continues its successful operations as an independent federal agency, as mandated by Congress, ensuring full accountability to the President, Congress and the public. Most recently for its FY 2007 independent audit, the Interagency Council received its third clean audit opinion since its initial FY 2005 audit. 

*Council Staffing.* The initiatives of the Interagency Council are
currently carried out by 9 full-time professional staff, including
contract staff. In addition, 6 full-time HUD employees work as Regional
Coordinators, programmatically supervised by the Interagency Council and
administratively supervised by HUD. The Council's work in the field has
greatly benefited from this partnership with HUD by having Regional
Coordinators in the field, each covering one federal region as the
Council's representative. The Interagency Council directly supports
these Regional Coordinators through its own budget by covering
administrative support, communications, travel, and supply costs.

HUD personnel caps have limited the availability of the Regional
Coordinator positions and resulted in no coverage for several regions
and no flexibility in covering regions. This gap results in geographic
areas that have been underserved over time and inequity in access to
Council support and technical assistance, innovative ideas and
strategies that are producing results.

With the budget increase in FY 2008, the Council will use its statutory
authority to bring an additional Regional Coordinator position to its
own staff as a permanent evolution of the Council's staffing pattern and
to ensure equitable coverage of all federal regions, thereby increasing
the budgetary authority to three Regional Coordinators. This step will
help ensure that there are equal resources to meet need across the
country with federal, state, and city/county partners. Equal access to
these key personnel and technical assistance resources means that all
communities can be partners in the Administration's goal and achieve
results in ending homelessness. The Council's mission is not prioritized
to any one profile of community.

*Council Operations.* Per Congressional direction, the Council relocated
to its current Federal Center SW location in September 2005, thereby
finalizing its establishment as an independent federal agency. The
Council's ongoing operational expenses are reflected in the FY 2009
Budget request. The Council has undertaken ongoing review and
decision-making measures to adopt efficiency measures in its budget to
ensure maximum use of its resources, including, but not limited to,
OMB's PART process.

*Travel.* Projected travel for the Executive Director is planned to
support joint events with federal Regional Interagency Councils, State
Interagency Council on Homelessness events, and 10-Year Plan commitments
by Mayors and county Executives. Planned travel for FY 2009 is
consistent with analysis in key areas of State Interagency Council
activities and 10-Year Plan processes. Additional travel is budgeted for
other senior staff representing the agency on an as-needed basis for
public events and technical assistance, and travel support for Regional
Coordinators.

In support of the Council's mission and partnership with every level of
government and the private sector, there is a concomitant commitment to
equal access and rapid dissemination of innovations and results in the
country delivered in part via Regional Coordinators and other staff.
Strategically identified support is provided by the Council starting
from the initiation of work with a specific jurisdiction, through
participation in regional and national summit events where leaders learn
from peers, and including on-site support for announcement events where
jurisdictional leaders commit to plans and report results in ending
homelessness. Ensuring that communities of all sizes, in all places,
learn directly from practitioners the evidence-based strategies that
achieve success in the Housing First innovation, for example, means that
persons who are chronically homeless in a given community can then
access and retain housing, helping to end homelessness.

Access to the innovation increases access to the results. The Council
has developed this strategic approach to its statutory technical
assistance responsibilities through field-tested strategies since its
revitalization and in response to the identified needs of its partners
at every level of government and in the private sector. These partners
include national entities such as national advocacy organizations,
organizations of elected officials (including governors, mayors, and
county officials), and civic and business organizations (such as United
Way, Chambers of Commerce, and International Downtown Association).

**An Unprecedented Level of Federal Collaboration.**

Federal Collaborative Initiatives to Help End Chronic Homelessness.
Since the Council was revitalized in 2002, federal agencies have
undertaken successful collaborative budget and policy initiatives
targeted to ending chronic homelessness. The historic and unprecedented
\$55 million joint federal funding initiative announced by the
Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Health and Human
Services (HHS), and Veterans Affairs (VA) in 2002 supported 635 new
permanent supportive housing tenancies for persons experiencing chronic
homelessness, ending over 5,400 collective years of homelessness
(average 8 years of homelessness per person). More than 80% of sites
used a Housing First model, with more than an 85% housing retention
rate.

The HUD-Department of Labor Ending Chronic Homelessness through
Employment and Housing initiative has housed 300 people successfully and
engaged more than 50% in employment.

In FY 2006, 12 sites moved forward with the new USICH-HUD joint \$10
million housing demonstration for chronic inebriates. 555 new permanent
supportive housing tenancies were funded under the 2-year program, with
the first 200 tenants representing an average of 7 years of homelessness
experience.

*SSA-HHS SOAR Initiative.* SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery
(SOAR) is a new Social Security Administration and Department of Health
and Human Services (SAMHSA) training initiative that provides a key step
in increasing access to SSA disability benefits for persons experiencing
homelessness. The SOAR Technical Assistance Initiative is in more than
30 states and/or communities.  

Only 11% of the homeless population is currently estimated to receive
SSI/SSDI benefits, and nationally, only 37% of SSA disability
applications are approved upon initial submission. Although approvals
increase to 53% after appeal, that process can be lengthy. Through
SSI/SSDI outreach and assistance, initial approval rates can soar to
60-95% of applicants without appeals. The majority of states link SSI
eligibility and access to Medicaid, thus providing persons who are
homeless with two major supports.

The SOAR technical assistance initiative increases the number of
homeless people who receive SSI and SSDI by encouraging collaboration
among key stakeholders, facilitating strategic planning to improve
access to SSI/SSDI at the state and community levels, offering a
Train-the-Trainer program to build the capacity of front-line staff to
assist homeless people with SSA disability applications, delivering
on-going support and technical assistance, and tracking outcomes to
ensure long-term support and dissemination of promising practices.

*HHS-Labor Job Corps -- Foster Care Initiative.* Under the authority of
the Department of Labor, the Job Corps is the nation\'s largest and most
comprehensive residential education and job training program for at-risk
youth, ages 16 through 24.  Job Corps combines classroom, practical, and
work-based learning experiences to prepare youth for stable, long-term,
high-paying jobs. There are 122 Job Corps centers, located in 48 states,
the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, each offering educational
training and a variety of vocational training programs.

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Working in a no-cost initiative with the Department of Health and Human
Services, which supports state foster care systems, the Job Corps
program makes available to youth aging out of foster care residential
placement and comprehensive academic and vocational training services,
as well as supportive services including room and board, transportation,
health care, and a clothing allowance. Youth in foster care and homeless
and runaway youth are specifically targeted as eligible to receive
services under the program.  Through improved tracking methods and
outreach, Job Corps has significantly increased the numbers of youth
served who are identified as foster care, homeless or runaway (from
approximately 240 in 2001 to nearly 2,000 in 2005).  The services
provided by Job Corps help prevent foster care and runaway youth from
becoming homeless. 

 

**Senior Policy Group.** The Interagency Council's Senior Policy
meetings during 2006-2007 included new research on families who are
homeless, results in ending chronic homelessness, developments in
addressing the needs of veterans, coordination of homeless programs with
city and county 10-Year Plans, and the role of federal agencies in local
Project Homeless Connect events.

The Council has created the research mechanism to work collaboratively
with Cities and states to monitor the national partnership's results in
creating targeted permanent supportive housing units/tenancies that end
chronic homelessness. Monitoring of over 100 10-Year Plan cities, their
leveraged investments, and targeted permanent supportive housing
pipelines was underway in FY 2007.

######## Federal Regional Interagency Councils. The Interagency Council has prioritized the creation of federal Regional Interagency Councils and works with its Regional Coordinators to convene the key regional representatives of federal agencies to mirror work among the federal partners in Washington and to make its resources more available and accessible regionally to homeless people. Nine of the federal regions have established these coordinated relationships to be a link to states and communities in their efforts. 

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######## Under Secretary Leavitt's chairmanship, the regional federal Council collaborations have reached a new level of partnership and engagement across the nation, engaging state, county, and local partners as well as taking part in local 10-year events and Project Homeless Connect events. The Interagency Council's Regional Coordinators enhance participation and partnerships of federal Regional Interagency Councils for all regions, convening Council participants regionally for updates and briefings with State Interagency Councils and Cities and Counties engaged in 10-Year Plans to end chronic homelessness. In 2007 through its work directly with state government leaders in regional colloquies on chronic homelessness, the Interagency Council supported these federal entities in meeting with leaders of many state and city planning bodies. 

*State Interagency Councils on Homelessness.* Every state and territory
has been encouraged by the Interagency Council to establish a State
Interagency Council on Homelessness with representation from the
mainstream income support programs, health care, behavioral health,
human services, veterans, corrections, transportation, education, and
labor departments and agencies.

To date, 53 states and territories have taken steps to create State
Interagency Councils on Homelessness. In FY 2007, the Council convened
its second National Summit for jurisdictional CEOs of states and Cities
on innovations, cost benefit analysis, use of federal resources, funding
partnerships, and expansion of private sector partnerships to end
chronic homelessness, as well as measuring progress in ending chronic
homelessness.

*City/County 10-Year Plans to End Chronic Homelessness.* Cities and
Counties across the country have been encouraged by the U.S. Interagency
Council on Homelessness to create 10-Year Plans to end chronic
homelessness. The Interagency Council is providing and will continue to
provide technical assistance and tools to help communities innovations
and best practices to match federal initiatives intended to establish
additional permanent supportive housing opportunities for persons
experiencing chronic homelessness. The Interagency Council's toolkits on
10-Year Plans have been distributed to state, city, and county
leadership in the fifty states.

Over 325 cities and counties are underway with this jurisdictional
process or have completed a 10-Year Plan. The Council organized its
National Project Homeless Connect Week described elsewhere to support
10-Year Plan cities in replicating the PHC engagement strategy, in order
to move chronically homeless people directly off the streets using civic
engagement of the public and private sectors.

With the release of its toolkit entitled *Good . . . to Better . . . to
Great* in FY 2005, the Interagency Council fulfilled its commitment to
provide new tools for Cities and Counties to promote quality plans
through the use of identified principles to measure evolution and
implementation. In FY 2007, technical assistance and support focused on
measuring progress through the convening of the National Summit of state
and city government leaders and innovators showing results in ending
chronic homelessness.

*E-news.* The Interagency Council launched a weekly electronic
newsletter three years ago, now providing 15,000 weekly
policymakers/subscribers in the national partnership with up-to-the
minute news stories on federal policy and resource competitions, federal
surplus property (fulfilling the Council's statutory responsibility to
provide information to the field on federal resources including the
Title V McKinney-Vento surplus property program), Governors launching
and expanding State Interagency Councils on Homelessness, Mayors and
County Executives forwarding 10-Year Plans, Cities and states reporting
results in ending homelessness, and innovations, investments and
partnerships. The e-news serves as a vehicle to increase use of the
USICH web site where a deeper level of information is available.

*New Initiatives.* The Council is also collaborating with two federal
agencies in closing key gaps in knowledge and practice targeted to the
goal of ending chronic homelessness. Working with the *Department of
Justice,* the Council is developing new technical assistance initiatives
which target best practices for law enforcement and reentry systems in
engaging the chronically homeless population. Working with the *Social
Security Administration* and local partners, the Council is examining
through SSA earnings data the movement to earnings and benefits for
person who have been chronically homeless.

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| 1 | Number of       | 200   | 224    | 250    | 310     | 340 |   |
|   | Cities and      |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | Counties        |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | committed to    |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | development of  |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | 10-Year Plans   |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | to end chronic  |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | homelessness    |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | increases       |       |        |        |         |     |   |
+---+-----------------+-------+--------+--------+---------+-----+---+
| 2 | Number of       | N/A   | 72     | 90     | 150     | 165 |   |
|   | 10-Year Plans   |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | to end chronic  |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | homelessness    |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | being           |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | implemented     |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | increases       |       |        |        |         |     |   |
+---+-----------------+-------+--------+--------+---------+-----+---+
| 3 | Of the          | N/A   | 21     | 25     | 46      | 50  |   |
|   | jurisdictions   |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | that are        |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | implementing    |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | 10-Year Plans   |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | to end chronic  |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | homelessness,   |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | the percentage  |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | that have seen  |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | a decrease in   |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | the number of   |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | chronically     |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | homeless        |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | individuals in  |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | their           |       |        |        |         |     |   |
|   | communities.    |       |        |        |         |     |   |
+---+-----------------+-------+--------+--------+---------+-----+---+

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      **Performance      **2006     **2006     **2007     **2007     **2008
      Goal**             Target**   Actual**   Target**   Actual**   Target**

                                                                     

  4   Of the city and    35%        50%        60%        63%        68%
      state                                                          
      jurisdictions that                                             
      are implementing                                               
      10-Year Plans to                                               
      end chronic                                                    
      homelessness, the                                              
      percentage that                                                
      are leveraging                                                 
      additional                                                     
      investment                                                     
      resources to                                                   
      decrease the                                                   
      number of                                                      
      chronically                                                    
      homeless                                                       
      individuals in                                                 
      their communities                                              
      as a result of the                                             
      Council's efforts.                                             

  5   Number of key      N/A        7          9          9          10
      Federal agencies                                               
      that have endorsed                                             
      a federal plan to                                              
      end chronic                                                    
      homelessness and                                               
      have implemented                                               
      internal working                                               
      groups to forward                                              
      their agency\'s                                                
      participation.                                                 
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**Performance Goal #1:** Number of Cities and Counties committed to
development of 10-Year Plans to end chronic homelessness increases.

**Explanation:** USICH staff, including Regional Coordinators, are
working in partnership with jurisdictional officials across the country
to support development of 10-Year Plans to end chronic homelessness
through identification of partnerships and rapid dissemination of
innovative best practices information and other forms of technical
assistance.

**FY 2007 Progress**

The Council has achieved its performance goals to secure new city/county
commitments to develop 10-Year Plans, advance implementation of plans
based on best practices, and identify the percentage of those in
implementation that are reporting reductions.

Efforts in furthering the Administration\'s goal to end chronic
homelessness are targeted through the creation of now 53 State
Interagency Councils on Homelessness and the development and
implementation of over 325 jurisdictional 10-Year Plans. The number of
jurisdictions with 10-Year Plans has increased from a FY 2006 level of
152 to the current 325, with State Councils increasing in the same
period from 49 to 53.

In November 2007, the Administration announced an unprecedented
documented decrease in street and chronic homelessness across the nation
based on locally reported data -- an 11.5% reduction from 2005 to 2006:
20,000 people moved from the streets. Additionally, the Council is
tracking reports of census reduction in 35 cities in 10-Year Plan
implementation.

**Performance Goal #2:** Number of 10-Year Plans to end chronic
homelessness being implemented increases.

**Explanation:** USICH staff, including Regional Coordinators, are
working in partnership with jurisdictional officials across the country
to support implementation of 10-Year Plans to end chronic homelessness
through rapid dissemination of innovative best practices information and
other forms of technical assistance, as well as reporting of results and
investment by the public and private sectors.

**FY 2007 Progress**

This performance goal directly relates to the Administration's goal of
ending chronic homelessness and USICH's statutory role in coordinating
federal agencies, states, and localities in their response to
homelessness. Additionally, these goals are intended to demonstrate that
the Council's initiatives with Cities, Counties, and states in
developing and implementing 10-Year Plans to end chronic homelessness
are showing results.

The number of plans moving from initial development to implementation
marks the progression of plans from proposals to action plans where
progress and outcomes, as well as investment, are being measured.

**Performance Goal #3:** Of the jurisdictions that are implementing
10-Year Plans to end chronic homelessness, the percentage that have seen
a decrease in the number of chronically homeless individuals in their
communities.

**Explanation:** USICH staff, including Regional Coordinators, collects
reports from communities on reductions in chronic homelessness and
examine findings to monitor the results of the national partnership in
ending chronic homelessness.

**FY 2007 Progress**

The Council reports a trend among cities of reduced numbers of
chronically homeless, street homeless, and other homeless persons.

This goal, which directly relates to the Administration's goal of ending
chronic homelessness and USICH's statutory role in coordinating federal
agencies, states and localities in addressing the issue of homelessness,
is projected to show that the work that USICH has done with Cities and
Counties in implementing 10-Year Plans to end chronic homelessness is
demonstrating results. By 2012, the expectation is that all implemented
10-Year Plans will show reduction in numbers of chronically homeless
individuals in their communities, using baseline data and benchmark
measurements.

In 2007, more than 35 cities reported reductions in the number of
persons experiencing chronic homelessness, street homelessness, and
other homelessness in their cities, including in New York, Denver,
Danbury, CT, Norfolk, Portland, Quincy, MA, and Seattle..

**Performance Goal #4:** Of the city and state jurisdictions that are
implementing 10-Year Plans to end chronic homelessness, the percentage
that are leveraging additional investment resources to decrease the
number of chronically homeless individuals in their communities as a
result of the Council's efforts.

**Explanation:** USICH staff, including Regional Coordinators, will
quantify public and private sector investment in states and cities that
are implementing 10-Year Plans to end chronic homelessness through the
Council's efforts.

**FY 2007 Progress**

The increased federal targeted homelessness investment of the past five
budgets, along with an increased focus on chronic homelessness, is the
expression of the Administration's commitment to the goal of ending
chronic homelessness. The national partnership being developed by the
Council's initiatives relies on the investment of state, city, and
private sector resources into the measurable goals of 10-Year Plans and
State Interagency Council on Homelessness plans.

The Council's estimate of leverage resulting over the last three years
from over 100 10-Year Plan cities into the goals of plans to end chronic
homelessness for targeted housing and supportive services is
approximately \$3.42 billion.

**Performance Goal #5:** Number of key Federal agencies that have
endorsed a federal plan to end chronic homelessness and have implemented
internal working groups to forward their agency\'s participation.

**Explanation:** Through active collaboration with member agencies,
USICH will create a federal plan to achieve creation through the
national partnership of 150,000 tenancies for persons experiencing
chronic homelessness. As part of the interagency Operation CHESS
(Chronic Homelessness Elimination Strategic Solutions) process, USICH
will work with OMB and Council member agencies, including HUD, HHS, DOL,
VA, and SSA, to create meaningful plans that are integrated in a federal
plan and that work towards the Administration's goal of ending chronic
homelessness.

**FY 2007 Progress**

This goal identifies and charges the key federal agencies working on
homelessness to establish internal plans and working groups focused on
the goal of ending chronic homelessness. In addition, these plans will
integrate into an overall federal plan to address this goal.

The Council has convened a federal agency discussion -- Operation
CHESS - since its revitalization to develop the federal strategy to end
chronic homelessness as part of the national partnership. The federal
discussion has progressed during FY 2007 with the ability to point to
results in targeted federal, state, and city initiatives to meet this
goal. Key federal agencies named here have contributed data on the
results of their targeted initiatives to provide the foundation of a
multi-year projection to achieve the goal.

**[Object Classification of Budget Request for FY 2009 -
\$2,660,000]{.underline}**

Object Class 11, Personnel: **[\$1,248,570]{.underline}**

The Council proposes an increase from a maximum of 11 FTE to 13 FTE,
which is the result of two additional Regional Coordinator positions
added to its staff.

The estimate assumes a 3% combined cost of living adjustment and
locality raise in January 2009 for all employees.

Object Class 12, Personnel Benefits: **[\$274,686]{.underline}**

The estimate for this category represents the Council's obligations for
contributions to employee benefits.

Object Class 21, Travel: **[\$163,642]{.underline}**

This category includes all travel costs for all Council activities, such
as supporting the travel necessary to provide technical assistance to
jurisdictions formulating, adopting, and implementing 10-Year Plans.

Object Class 22, Transportation of Things: **[\$14,400]{.underline}**

This category's estimates are for local and long distance courier and
overnight delivery services as well as postage for mailings.

Object Class 23, Communications, Utilities, and Miscellaneous:
**[\$339,630]{.underline}**

This estimate represents the Council's cost for rental of office space
and estimates for telephone services, both local and long distance,
cellular phone services, and broadband internet access.

Object Class 24, Printing and Reproduction: **[\$45,000]{.underline}**

This category supports the printing and reproduction primarily of the
Council's technical assistance materials for jurisdictions either
formulating, adopting, or implementing 10-Year Plans, as well as routine
costs incurred in the operations of the Council.

Object Class 25, Services: **[\$539,072]{.underline}**

The Council's statute gives authority to hire experts and consultants as
necessary for its work. The costs for this category are for the services
of these individuals and experts of housing subjects, issues, and
industry. Additionally, the Council proposes convening a regional
conference, as follow-up activities to its highly successful National
Leadership Summit held in March 2007 which included attendance and
active participation by over 200 county, city, and state leaders from
117 city and county jurisdictions, representing 42 states and
Territories, and served as a clearinghouse for innovations in the area
of homelessness. The Council plans to continue the momentum gained
during this conference. Additionally, this category includes estimates
for the Council's colloquy events, web site maintenance, audit services,
and computer network support, which are all outsourced, as well as GSA
administrative support services (payroll, accounting, personnel, etc),
legal advice and web site maintenance from GPO.

Object Class 26, Materials: **[\$35,000]{.underline}**

Anticipated expenses include routine office supplies, subscriptions and
other materials, as well as technical and other reports and studies.

[^1]: ^No\ year\ funds.^

[^2]: ^As\ of\ December\ 31,\ 2007.^