CA AJR14

Requests that the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development revisit the federal funding formula used to allocate homelessness dollars to local continuums of care and housing authorities

States that the current Continuum of Care funding formula, in place since 2012, relies on outdated Community Development Block Grant criteria last updated in 1977 that do not specifically measure homelessness rates

Notes that the existing formula has created a mismatch between the amount of homelessness in California communities and the federal funding they receive

References the Obama Administration's 2016 proposal for alternative formulas with better empirical links to homelessness rates, which was not finalized before that administration left office

Calls for the Biden Administration to reopen the funding formula rulemaking and for Congress to significantly increase overall Continuum of Care Program funding