The Senate bill S. The House bill H. Now that the bill is enacted, HUD will have up to 18 months to develop regulations to implement the new McKinney program. Since then, numerous proposals have been debated, but controversies prevented Congress from passing any significant reauthorizations.
However, a number of changes were made to the McKinney-Vento programs by HUD and by Congress through the annual appropriations process. The most significant change by HUD was the creation of the Continuum of Care process, which was first implemented in On July 31, , the House Financial Services Committee approved the bill and several amendments to it by voice vote. After discussions between House and Senate staff, a compromise was agreed to that closely resembled S.
The compromise was passed by the House as H. However, the bill did not pass the Senate before the end of the session. Funding for the Emergency Shelter Grant ESG will be distributed by the same formula to the same jurisdictions as it is now.
However, there will be significant changes in the amount of funding and how that funding can be used.
The HEARTH Act adds to this definition situations where a person is at imminent risk of homelessness or where a family or unaccompanied youth is living unstably. Imminent risk includes situations where a person must leave his or her current housing within the next 14 days with no other place to go and no resources or support networks to obtain housing.
