Today, the lead Cabinet secretaries from the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) – from the U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Veterans Affairs (VA) – joined Executive Director of the USICH Barbara Poppe to unveil and submit to the President and Congress the a comprehensive strategy to prevent and end homelessness. The full report is titled Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. The plan is working to end veterans and chronic homelessness by 2015; and to ending homelessness among children, family, and youth by 2020.

A webinar on the plan will be available on www.hud.gov/webcasts, on Wednesday, June 23rd from 2:00 –2:45 p.m. EST.  During the webcast, questions can be asked via email at Homelessness@hud.gov.