American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program

On February 13, 2009, Congress passed The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a $789 billion economic recovery plan. ARRA contains an extremely significant increase in federal support for homelessness prevention and re-housing services in response to the national recession. Included in the proposal are a number of funding provisions for programs related to housing and beneficial to people experiencing homelessness. This increase in federal resources will have the potential to provide new funding to homeless youth services and shelter, and offer new funding for prevention services and re-housing assistance for older homeless youth.

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