1. Increase resources commensurate with national housing need for PLWHA.

2. Loosen documentation around proof of permanent housing to access STRMU and TBRA

3. If competitive grants are phased out, HUD must require localities and providers to seamlessly transition the programs to other funding streams, including Section 8 and the HOPWA formula, to avoid making people homeless.

In areas that also allocate RW funds for housing, HOPWA administrators should work closely with RW grantees to ensure effective and non-duplicated use of funds.

More partnerships with hospitals and clinics would help HOPWA find the people that need help the most.

By allowing (but not requiring) HOPWA programs to fund time-limited rental assistance, we can provide individuals and families with short-term and transitional rental assistance while they seek more long-term and sustainable housing opportunities. This will provide programs with more flexibility, and it will free up more space on HOPWA waitlists. Overall, more individuals and families wil be served. Not all program beneficiaries will need long-term rental assistance.

In Los Angeles there is a great range of knowledge in the housing case management system - some know the system and can be helpfull - some don't know squat. Consumers are at the mercy of this system - by offering one large training opportunity - and in the process creating guides to the system, motivated consumers can avoid months of frustrating delays, and tend to share their smarts with the other PWHIV.

Allow all HOPWA programs to use shallow rent subsidies. Currently only a few competitive grantees can use. Deep subsidies serve fewer people and are not always necessary for clients. Research article shows that they prevent homelessness.

HOPWA should be a multi agency project that provides all the supportive services such as Mental Health, Substance Abuse Counseling, enrollment in Case Management as long as they are enrolled in a HOPWA Program. Provide HOPWA Voucher / S8 then provide Follow ups / housing visits for up to six months after permanently housed to assure housing stability.

We need fewer services when disabled folks have access to employment in our own HIV/AIDS organizations. Stop the institutional barriers to employment for disabled HIVers by mandating all organizations dedicate 25% of all salary dollars to positions that fit within earned income of SSDI.

Keeping PWAs stably housed in the long term requires not just financial assistance, but the opportunity for permanent, affordable, supportive housing. An individual's ability to pay rent is just one component of homelessness prevention.

Please do not apply "homeless" definition to HOPWA. But if so, please consider retaining some form of homeless prevention assistance (even if modified from current STRMU). Training on evidence-based practices on how best to effectively target homeless prevention efforts would also be helpful.

Quantify "do you feel you belong in your neighborhood", and "do you feel you belong in your building" into outcome surveys.

educate the public better that they cannot get aids just from being around an infected person