H. R. 9644, also known as the “Transitional Housing Protection for the Homeless Act”, aims to update the definition of "chronically homeless" in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. The bill proposes changes so that a person is considered chronically homeless if they have lived in a...
Simple Explanation
The bill wants to change how the word "chronically homeless" is defined, saying it's someone who has stayed in shelters for a long time or a bunch of short times over three years. It also wants people in temporary housing to count as homeless if they were homeless before they came there, and it asks for new rules on this in six months.