Blog Category: Unsheltered Homelessness
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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…
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The Disturbing Realities of Homelessness and Violence
There is grief, everywhere. In a time when COVID brings such a feeling of loss, news reports and social media are full of death. Presumably,..
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Is Unsheltered Homelessness About to Increase in Your Town? Much Will Depend on Decisions We Make Now.
In response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and with a surge of new federal resources, many states and localities began offering a new…
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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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Is Being Homeless a Crime?
Living on the streets means constantly being vulnerable – to the elements, to illness and hunger, and to the very group who should be there to protect you: law enforcement.
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Increases in Individual Homelessness: A Gender Analysis
According to the most recent Point-in-Time data analyzed in The State of Homelessness: 2020 Edition, 2016 began a trend in the number of individual adults experiencing homelessness, rising…
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New Research: Unsheltered Homelessness is a Health Crisis
Unsheltered individuals manage profound health challenges that broadly define them as a social group. This is the basic conclusion of a recent California Policy Lab (CPL) brief…
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Examining Data: Exploring Unsheltered Family Homelessness
Data is a key asset for highly performing Continuums of Care (CoCs). Properly managed, it can be an indicator of a community’s progress and needs. It also serves as an effective barometer of…
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What Can We Learn From New York City’s Work to End Unsheltered Homelessness?
This post is part of Unsheltered, an Alliance blog series to exploring the crisis of unsheltered homelessness in the United States. You can catch up on the whole series…
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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…