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Appendix A: Legislative Efforts to Aid the Homeless
Appendix A: Legislative Efforts to Aid the Homeless
Pages 163-168
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. Since then it has appropriated $320 million more for this purpose and has made changes in federal housing assistance, food stamps, Medicaid, mental health, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
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removed the bar to food stamp eligibility for shelter residents and permitted the homeless to use food stamps to buy prepared meals from soup kitchens and shelters; (2) required the federal agencies responsible for Medicaid, AFDC, and SSI to develop methods to assess eligibility for, and make aid available to, people who do not have fixed home or mailing addresses; (3)
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to provide services to homeless mentally ill veterans. The administration initially opposed the transfer, arguing that it might jeopardize the disaster relief program and that the money would not reach the homeless in time to meet winter needs.
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$50 million in FY87 and $30 million in FY88 for new grants to provide outpatient health care to the homeless; (2) $35 million in FY87 and such sums as may be necessary in FY88 for new state block grants to provide outpatient mental health services to the homeless chronically mentally ill; (3)
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