Homelessness: federal funding.

Under existing law, the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development administers various programs relating to homelessness, including the continuum of care program, which is a competitive award program created to address the problems of homelessness in a comprehensive manner. The program authorizes a state to apply for program funding as a balance of state continuum of care that covers geographic areas of the state not included within a community level continuum of care. This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to apply for McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act funding by establishing a balance of state continuum of care program, as described, on or before September 1, 2011. The bill would also require, in the event that the department fails to apply for the federal funding, that the department, prior to September 30, 2011, notify specified legislative committees of its efforts to comply with the requirements of the bill. The bill would make this notification requirement inoperative on September 30, 2015.