Blog Audience: Continuums of Care
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Illustrating the Limits of Homeless Sector Wages: Employees Likely Struggle to Pay the Rent
Homeless service providers shouldn’t have to worry about becoming homeless themselves. Yet, with provider salaries that struggle to keep up with the cost of living, and organizations that…
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Moving The Needle: Leveraging the CoC Program Competition NOFO for Justice and Equity
Ensuring the homeless system is just and equitable should be at the core of its design and infused through all aspects of year-round…
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Improving Assistance to LGBTQ+ Individuals
There has been a sharp increase in the number of LGBTQ individuals personally experiencing discrimination across the United States, according to a recent report from GLAAD – 24 percent…
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How CoCs Can Engage Local Leaders on Affordable Housing
With the recent release of the 2022 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program Competition Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has…
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There’s a Right Way and a Wrong Way to Address Encampments
Recent polls of Angelenos show that leading up to the mayoral election, demand for an urgent, constructive response to the crisis of homelessness is higher than ever. The primary results…
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What You Can Expect from the Alliance – And From Me
I’ll be honest. When I hung up after getting the call from our Board Co-Chair Jeff Hayward telling me that the Board of the National Alliance to End Homelessness had voted in favor of me being…
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Reflections from Nan Roman
This is my final week with the National Alliance to End Homelessness. It has been a privilege to work with the…
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HUD Creates New Funding Opportunity to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness
There is growing public concern about unsheltered homelessness.
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National Alliance to End Homelessness Names New CEO, Ann Oliva
The National Alliance to End Homelessness today announced that Ann Oliva has been named the new…
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Race Equity and Unsheltered Homelessness: What We Learned at Our Conference and Where We Go From Here
Many in the homeless services field know that most minority groups are overrepresented in the homelessness system and generally experience homelessness at higher rates than Whites…