The Supreme Court is about to rule in the case of the City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson, the first major case on homelessness to be heard by the Supreme Court since the 1980s. The case will determine the […]
Category: Federal Funding
What Do We Know (So Far) About Homelessness Funding in the FY 2024 Budget?
Last Saturday, President Biden signed into law a bill providing funding for the rest of fiscal year 2024 for some federal agencies. These include the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the U.S. Interagency […]
What is Preventing Progress on Unsheltered Homelessness?
In spring 2023, the federal government awarded 32 communities across the country with additional resources to address unsheltered homelessness. Before they began implementing their grants, the Alliance asked 24 representatives of the funded communities about the factors that had been preventing […]
New Federal Funding Boosts Unsheltered Homelessness Response
Written by: Nicole DuBois, Senior Research Analyst Unsheltered homelessness rose to an estimated 256,610 people on one night in January 2023, up 9.7 percent from the prior year. This continued a trend of increases that began in 2016 and has […]
Potential Government Shutdown: What You Need to Know
Once again Congress is heading toward a potential government shutdown. Congress is currently confronting a pair of shutdown deadlines – on March 1 and March 8 – after lawmakers passed a short-term funding bill in January. With these deadlines looming for Congress to […]