Through history and across cultures, the winter solstice has been marked by festivals, celebrations, and observations, with an eye for the warmer weather and longer days soon to come. However, for people experiencing homelessness, their allies, and those who serve […]
Category: Health
The NOFO is Correct: Now is the Time to Make the Connection Between Housing and Behavioral Health
Homelessness itself is a traumatizing experience. Add COVID-19 to the picture, and it should be readily apparent that we urgently need to connect people experiencing homelessness to both housing and behavioral health supports. Research has shown that the pandemic, coupled with the related economic downturn, has negatively impacted people’s mental health and created new […]
Using Federal Resources: The Time is Now – Making a Plan for Emergency Housing Vouchers
What Are EHVs? EHVs are administered through local public housing authorities (PHAs) in partnership with Continuums of Care (CoCs) and are targeted to people experiencing or at risk of homelessness who are referred by the CoCs or victim service providers. […]
Heat Emergencies and Homelessness: A Crisis within a Crisis
Written by: Chandra Crawford, Christina Miller But we also know that homelessness was on the rise even before the pandemic. According to the most recent data available from HUD, the number of individual adults experiencing homelessness grew by seven percent […]
A Legal Matter: Laws that Disproportionately Impact People Experiencing Homelessness
There are particular laws and policies that explicitly target and harm people experiencing homelessness. These include camping bans, sit/stand ordinances, and the plethora of other “quality of life” laws. These laws criminalize the state of being homeless. They saddle people […]