Federal legislation to support the development of transitional housing programs for homeless people (TH) was first introduced in 1986, and ultimately incorporated into the first Stewart B. McKinney Act in 1987 as part of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developments (HUD) Supportive Housing Program (SHP). HUDs division of Community Planning and Development has had responsibility for the SHP since 1989, when a new administration brought all...