The City of Binghamton is an entitlement community designated to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Program authorized under The Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 (HEARTH Act). The interim rule published in the Federal Register on December 5, 2011 revises the regulations for the Emergency Shelter Grants program by establishing the regulations for the Emergency Solutions Grants program, which replaces the Emergency Shelter Grants program. The change in the program’s name from Emergency Shelter Grants to Emergency Solutions Grants reflects the change in the program’s focus from addressing the needs of homeless people in emergency or transitional shelters to assisting people to quickly regain stability in permanent housing after experiencing a housing crisis and/or homelessness. All agencies shall be required to make an in-person funding request to CDAC (detailed below). Failure to do so may impact funding awards for your agency. Under this proposal, the City is allocating funding for programs that serve persons who are homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless. Priority goals to eliminate homelessness include: • Rapidly moving persons living on streets or emergency/transitional housing settings to permanent housing • Maintaining persons stability in permanent housing • Providing supportive services to assist with persons stability in obtaining/maintaining housing • Enhancing persons access to employment opportunities and/or mainstream resources • Eliminating gaps in systems delivery for underserved/underrepresented homeless populations
