Blog Best Practice: Housing First
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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…
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To Address Unsheltered Homelessness, Shelter and Housing Must Be Connected
This post is part of Unsheltered, an Alliance blog series to explore the crisis of unsheltered homelessness in the United States. You can catch up on the whole series…