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RCED-94-238R 1 (1994-07-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackpm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-254977 July 11, 1994 The Honorable Nelson W. Wolff Mayor of San Antonio San Antonio, Texas 78283-3966 Dear Mayor Wolff- At the request of the Chairman, Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, we reviewed the role of federal McKinney Act programs in assisting the homeless in four cities, including San Antonio.' This letter responds to requests from program administrators and providers of services for the homeless for certain information we gathered during our work in San Antonio. This information concerns the city's (1) efforts to assist the homeless before the McKinney Act's enactment; (2) use of McKinney programs to meet the needs of the city's homeless; and (3) unmet needs identified by local service providers, including the need for affordable housing. We developed the information presented in this letter through a case study approach that relied on three principal techniques: individual interviews with a wide range of local people who were assisting the homeless, focus groups with providers of services funded by McKinney Act programs, and a panel discussion with local experts on homelessness. We conducted our work from June 1992 through February 1994. Enclosure I lists the persons we interviewed. In summary, we were told that, beginning in the early 1970s, the homeless were able to access a range of assistance programs for low-income people, although most of these programs were not targeted specifically to the homeless. Emergency shelters were established by charitable organizations, and health care was available through a 'Homelessness: McKinney Act Programs Provide Assistance but Are Not Designed to Be the Solution (GAO/RCED-94-37, May 31, 1994) presents the results of our work in Baltimore, San Antonio, Seattle, and St. Louis. GAO/RCED-94-238R, Efforts to Assist the Homeless in San Antonio

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