Program Overview The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants program within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is the federal government’s primary response to homelessness, funding proven solutions to the problem. The bipartisan HEARTH Act of 2009 reauthorized the program […]
Category: Advocacy
Fall 2016 Local Member Engagement Campaign
This page offers resources for advocates interested in engaging their Members of Congress through hosting them for a site visit, conducting in-district meetings, or attending public campaign events during in-district work periods in the lead up to the November election.
Let Congress know housing help is important
Next Thursday, September 1, the Make Room campaign will launch. This campaign will send a million messages to Congress demanding attention and action on affordable housing issues. The Alliance will join this campaign with Make Room USA and the Campaign […]
We’ve made progress with Congress, let’s keep the drumbeat going
Remember that drumbeat I talked about in July? In order to get other House members to stand behind this increase and to get Senators on board, people who care about ending homelessness will need to keep up a steady drumbeat […]
The Alliance and True Colors Fund announce the National Youth Forum on Homelessness
The True Colors Fund and National Alliance to End Homelessness are proud to announce a new group, comprised exclusively of young people, to contribute to the growing national dialogue on how to make youth homelessness “rare, brief, and one-time.” The National Youth Forum on Homelessness will ensure that our national conversation is informed by and filtered through the perspectives of young people who have experienced homelessness, and that strategies to end homelessness are generated by youth and young adults themselves.