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HUD Approved Version. This document is required by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Emergency Solutions Grant is a HUD formula entitlement program. The Emergency Solutions Grant is the result of the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 (HEARTH Act), enacted into law on May 20, 2009. The HEARTH Act consolidated three of the separate homeless assistance programs administered by HUD under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act into a single grant program, and revises the Emergency Shelter Grants program and renames it as the Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) program. The City of New York has substantially amended its 2011 Consolidated Plan. The document now includes an addendum: Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funded activities. The addendum serves as the City's official 2011 application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Community Planning and Development for ESG funds. The 2011 Consolidated Plan represents the second year of New York City's five year strategic plan for Consolidated Plan Years 2010-2014. New York City's Consolidated Plan program year begins January 1 and ends December 31. On November 15, 2011, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development released an interim rule which revises the regulations for the Emergency Shelter Grants program by establishing the regulations for the Emergency Solutions 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. Additional funding has been allocated in FY2011 in conjunction with the interim Emergency Solutions Grant rule. According to the interim rule, localities are required to submit their amendments to HUD no later than May 15, 2012 in order to be eligible to receive their respective allocation. ESG is bound to HUD's Consolidated Plan regulations. Under existing Consolidated Plan citizen participation regulations, substantial amendments to an approved Plan are required to undergo a 30-day comment period prior to its submission to HUD. The public comment period began Monday, April 9 and ends Tuesday, May 8, 2012. The City of New York submitted its ESG amendment and additional federally-required materials on May 15, 2012. New York City received HUD's approval of its amendment and the second grant allocation on October, 3, 2012.

Agency

• City Planning, Department of (DCP)

Subject

• Government Policy

Report type

• Report

Date published

• 2012-10-03

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