The only Indigenous people on these islands – Kānaka Maoli of Hawaii, and Taotao Håya (Chamorro), Refaluwasch, and Tagata Samoa of U.S. Territories in the Pacific (which span Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa) – […]
Category: Crisis Response System
The SYSTEM Series
The SYSTEM (Strengthening Your System to Energize Momentum) Series is designed to help communities more effectively end homelessness by providing tools to help communities: Identify areas where they can make the most meaningful improvements to their systems; Continuously execute on […]
Emergency Shelter Learning Series
Emergency shelters play a critical role in ending homelessness. Effective shelters should embrace a Housing First approach, offer immediate and low-barrier access to anyone facing a housing crisis, and measure shelter performance in order to improve results. The Emergency Shelter Learning Series […]
Why Homelessness Still Exists and How We Can End It
By Jeff Olivet, Executive Director, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness When one person—even one—dies on the street, we as a society have failed them. When one family seeking safe housing and a stable school for their children is discriminated against […]
Perspective: I Was Homeless. Housing Made All the Difference
The author is a person who has experienced homelessness in Houston, TX. For most of my childhood, my mom worked minimum wage jobs and we lived in government housing. When Hurricane Ike devastated much of Houston in 2008 and the […]