To amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to meet the needs of homeless children, youth, and families, and honor the assessments and priorities of local communities.

It would restore local decision-making and improve the ability of communities to meet the unique developmental needs of homeless children, youth, and families, which is the best long-term strategy to reduce all forms of homelessness by:

• Provides flexibility to local communities to use available resources to meet the needs that they identify
• Allows communities to provide housing and services tailored to the unique needs of each homeless population, including HCYF
• Allows communities to serve some of the most vulnerable HCYF by aligning HUD Homeless Assistance eligibility criteria with other federal HCYF programs
• Increases visibility and awareness of HCYF through data transparency and more accurate counts, thus helping communities to leverage and attract more public/private resources to address homelessness
• Aligns HUD homeless assistance with the Every Student Succeeds Act and the Child Care and Development Fund to improve identification and enrollment of HCY in early childhood, K-12, and postsecondary education
• Encourages local innovation and success by allowing HUD to award bonuses and incentives for strategies that meet local needs

Source: Congress.gov.

See our fact sheets:

• The Homeless Children and Youth Act of 2017
• The Homeless Children and Youth Act of 2017: Using Federal Funding Effectively to Meet Local Needs