And it's also the definitions and the cost benefits of temporary versus permanent housing.
And efforts are being made to find more permanent housing here and elsewhere, in trailers and mobile homes.
She says the lofts create tax revenue that can be used to build more permanent housing for the homeless.
They also must show they have a plan to move into permanent housing.
Started in 2007, the program offered help with two years of rent to move people from shelter to permanent housing.
In 2011, the city canceled a rent-subsidy program, called Advantage, that helped the homeless make the transition from shelters to permanent housing.
That's despite a deadline of yesterday for FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to provide more permanent housing for all storm victims who need it.
And a few recovered and were placed in more permanent housing.
Having camped out in a Cuban hotel with his wife for 14 months while waiting for permanent housing, Hodson knows firsthand the demand for which he's building.
The program was started in 2007 and used a mix of federal, state and city money to help people make the transition from shelters to permanent housing.
Like New Orleans, permanent housing is one of the biggest challenges Mississippi faces 24 months after Katrina, and the state estimates that 13, 000 families still live in FEMA trailers.
Mr. Bloomberg said the coalition supported the state's decision in 2011 to curtail funding for a rent-subsidy program, called Advantage, that helped homeless people make the transition from shelters to permanent housing.
At issue now is Ms. Quinn's plan for "permanent affordable housing, " a proposal that Mr. Dulchin said his group helped draft.
This, too, can have its magnifying power altered over time, but it works by implanting a permanent lens housing into the eye, and exchanging the lens as required.
The City Council speaker's proposal for so-called permanent affordable housing is attracting resistance from many low-cost housing advocates, but one of them has become the plan's most active supporter.
The City Council speaker's proposal for so-called permanent affordable housing is attracting resistance from many low-cost housing advocates, who say it would make some types of buildings harder to finance and result in fewer units overall.
Some of those funds would be better spent on collecting better data, yet the most useful fix would be for rough sleepers to go closer to the top of the queue for permanent public housing, as happens in London with good results.
She founded Common Ground in 1990, and presided over its growth into one of the largest developers of permanent supportive housing in the country for more than 20 years until leaving to launch Community Solutions in 2011 with a new national strategy.
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"Mayor Bloomberg can try to deflect attention away from his disastrous policies all he wants, but 50, 000 New Yorkers would not be homeless today if he had chosen to invest in the strategy of moving families into permanent, affordable housing that Mayors Ed Koch, David Dinkins and Rudy Giuliani all used with success, " said Mary Brosnahan, the coalition president, in an email.
In 1993 the Clinton Administration and Congress made the low-income housing tax credit permanent.
Successful veterans are eligible for the program's final component: permanent, sober-living housing.
The suit says the city created the program to provide shelter "until permanent, safe and sustainable housing" was found but has failed to provide adequate help.
The committee also expresses concern that the scheme could become a "permanent feature" of the housing market and insists any decision about its future should be taken by politicians rather than the Bank of England.
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Month-to-month renters can get a 30-day notice, giving them a chance to find emergency housing or a more permanent place to live.
These positive effects are transitory, however, when local economies have insufficient permanent employment to justify a constant level of demand for new housing stock.
Anna was placed in emergency bed and breakfast accommodation, and then, assuming the rest of her housing application goes well, she will be found a more permanent home.
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As of February the Home Affordable Modification Program had modified the loans of over 1 million homeowners, either on a trial or permanent basis, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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