Will Detail Impact on Domestic Spending
The Administration’s report detailing how the automatic spending cuts, known as “sequestration,” would be implemented starting January 2013 is expected to be released this week. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that sequestration would cut $94 billion from discretionary spending, including $55 billion from defense and $16 billion from Medicare and other mandatory spending.
This is likely to include an 8.4 percent cut to all affordable housing and homelessness programs. The National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) estimates that due to the scheduled cuts to HUD’s Homeless Assistance Grants, nearly 150,000 people would be homeless instead of being housed.
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Kate Kelly joined Monarch Housing Associates in March of 2011. Prior to that, she worked for seven years at the Partnership for Strong Communities in Hartford, Connecticut as the Reaching Home Campaign Manager. Managing the statewide effort to end long-term homelessness, Kate effectively implemented statewide advocacy campaigns to fund over 700 new supportive housing units for individuals and families. She has experience directing fundraising events and presenting federal and state conferences. At the Partnership, she educated state and federal legislators and staff about supportive housing homelessness issues and advocated for new funding sources. She has also developed public forums that led to formal policy recommendations and educated local constituencies such as policymakers, legislators and funders. Ms. Kelly received her B.A. in government from the University of Notre Dame and an M.S.W from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Click here to send Ms. Kelly an email.
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