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Advocates urge expansion of Georgia Housing Voucher Program to reduce unsheltered homelessness and costly crisis use
Summary
A coalition of housing and health advocates asked the House subcommittee to increase funding for the Georgia Housing Voucher Program to house chronically homeless people with severe mental illness and reduce costly crisis care.
Advocates from a coalition including HouseATL Enterprise Community Partners, the Corporation for Supportive Housing, Presbyterians for Better Georgia and others urged the committee to expand funding for the Georgia Housing Voucher Program (GHVP), which provides housing vouchers and supportive services for chronically homeless people with severe and persistent mental illness under a 2010 Department of Justice settlement.
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