Homelessness Update

Family Homelessness in the United States: a State-by-State Snapshot A new analysis by the Alliance finds that almost 60,000 families with children are homeless on any given night in the United States, a national rate of 7.4 families homeless out of every 10,000. Despite high rates in some states, family homelessness has fallen in the majority of states, and nationwide it decreased by five percent between 2016 and 2017. Read more » Webinar 2/22: The President’s Budget Proposal and What You Can Do About It The president’s proposed FY 2019 budget is a blueprint for potential cuts to homelessness assistance and other essential programs. Join the Alliance for a webinar to learn what’s in store to protect these programs in the next year, and how your advocacy can help. Thursday, February 22, 11 a.m. ET Register » Stream Now: Frequently Asked Questions for Low-Barrier Shelters The Alliance recently convened community leaders and shelter operators to answer your most challenging questions about running low-barrier emergency shelters. You can now stream the conversation and download the slides. Watch the webinar » from the blog Ending Homelessness Today the official blog of the national alliance to end homelessness Changing Punitive Shelter Rules to Simple Community Expectations by Ben Cattell Noll On February 15, the Alliance kicks off the 2018 Emergency Shelter Learning Series with a brand new webinar to answer your most challenging and frequently asked questions. Throughout 2017, we were thrilled to see how many organizations across the country were making the shift to lower-barrier, housing-focused shelter models. Emergency shelters are a critical part […] The post Changing Punitive Shelter Rules to Simple Community Expectations appeared first on National Alliance to End Homelessness. Read more » comments » | Congress's Latest Budget Deal Will Help Us End Homelessness—If We Fight for It by Steve Berg Early this morning, Congress ended a brief government shutdown and voted to finally support a budget deal. This means there is now a firm schedule for finishing work on federal spending. The two-year budget agreement increases caps on overall non-defense spending, and adds critical one-time investments for disaster recovery. The details include: $63 billion increase […] The post Congress’s Latest Budget Deal Will Help Us End Homelessness—If We Fight for It appeared first on National Alliance to End Homelessness. Read more » comments » | How Community Health Centers Helped Britney Regain Housing—and Why Congress Needs to Act Now by NAEH This guest post is written by Regina Reed, Policy Organizer at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. Britney has an infectious smile, and you can feel the hope that's bubbling inside her. Even when she and her four-year-old son Mason were bouncing around between different family members' homes, and later living in a […] The post How Community Health Centers Helped Britney Regain Housing—and Why Congress Needs to Act Now appeared first on National Alliance to End Homelessness. Read more » comments » | About Us The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonprofit, non-partisan, organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. Join Us The Alliance is online: on Facebook, on Twitter, on our blog, and on our website! Join the Alliance's online community, and stay up-to-date with homelessness and housing information. www.endhomelessness.org Forward to a Friend Need Technical Assistance? Visit the Center for Capacity Building to learn more about the ways the Center can help your community end homelessness.