Blog Best Practice: Housing First
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Homelessness Systems Are More Efficient – But What’s Driving Homelessness Increases?
Last week the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released its annual report on Point-in-Time (PIT) Counts from January 2023 of people living in shelters and on the…
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Learning Without a Home: Will a Housing First Approach Work on Campus?
Written by: Malik Rivers, Project Associate, National Alliance to End Homelessness, and Marcus Ware, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Generation Hope…
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Why the Housing PLUS Act is a Threat to Housing First
While homeless service providers may know the value of Housing First, Congressional lawmakers must also understand the critical role that Housing First plays in getting people experiencing
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The Truth About Housing First
Without even seeing the data, it is obvious in most communities around the country that the crisis of homelessness—and especially unsheltered…
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Housing First is a Matter of Health
Managing a chronic illness while homeless can be an impossible challenge. This was the case for Rosa Williams, 60, who was living in her car while trying to manage stage 3 kidney disease and …
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National Alliance to End Homelessness Applauds Progress on HUD’s “House America” Goals
The National Alliance to End Homelessness today expressed its support and congratulations to the U.S. Department of Housing…
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How the Federal Strategic Plan Can Prevent and End Homelessness
The National Alliance to End Homelessness supports the new Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, released recently by…
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How Housing First Ends Veteran Homelessness
In early 2014, I was evicted from housing upon losing employment. Unable to pay rent, I began sleeping in my car while my children were…
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Unsheltered Homelessness and the NOFO
The streets have become the cruelest and most unsuitable waiting room for housing. While there is mass consensus that unsheltered…
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What Housing First Really Means
No two people experience homelessness the same way. Some have a mental health diagnosis, some do not. Some are living with addiction, others are not. Some spend each night in shelter…