Budget Amendment ID: FY2017-S4-810

ECO 810

Economic Mobility and Stability Program

Ms. Forry and Ms. Chang-Diaz moved that the proposed new text be amended SECTION XX.  There shall be a special commission to study data related to programs that provide joint support for stable housing and to increase economic self-sufficiency, various program components, program outcomes including changes in earned income, education, and state and federally funded services, and the feedback of participants and those not enrolled in programs, for the purpose of producing a report with recommendations for an economic mobility and financial stability program for families and individuals with extremely low incomes, as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, that can be offered across the Commonwealth. The commission shall consist of the following members or their designees: the undersecretary of the department of housing and community development; the secretary of education; the secretary of the department of labor and workforce development, the commissioner of the department of transitional assistance; the president of the senate; the speaker of the house of representatives; the senate and house chairs of the joint committee on housing; one representative of each of the following organizations: Abt Associates, Boston Housing Authority, Cambridge Housing Authority, Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association, Compass Collaborative, Economic Mobility Pathways, Homes for Families, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Massachusetts Association for Community Action, Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Organizations, Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants, Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership, MIDAS Collaborative, Regional Housing Network of Massachusetts, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, the University of Massachusetts Center for Social Policy.

The commission shall file a report of its findings and recommendations together with drafts of legislation necessary to carry out the recommendations, with the clerks of the senate and the House of Representatives, the senate and house chairs of the joint committee on housing, and the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than March 1, 2017.