The challenges people dealing with homelessness are facing right now are immense. We are achieving some things – like continuing to house people during a global pandemic, and innovating new ways to do so – but we need to build […]
Category: Health
How are Providers Coping with COVID-19 and the Recession? Recent Alliance Surveys and Interviews (webinar)
COVID-19 and the current economic crisis are testing homeless services systems in unprecedented ways. To better understand how providers are managing the current crisis, the Alliance and a collection of research partners initiated a series of community surveys and interviews […]
What Communities Can Accomplish with Recent COVID-19 Policy Updates
Late last week, White House officials negotiated with Congressional Democrats over another coronavirus emergency spending bill. They ended negotiations with no agreement, said they would not schedule further meetings, and said the President would take “executive action” in the light of the […]
National Partners Agree: Congress Needs to Step Up During COVID-19
Homeless services providers are still working tirelessly, day in and day out, to serve people experiencing homelessness during COVID-19. Communities are doing the absolute best work they can, even with limited resources and an uncertain future. But inaction from Congress threatens to make this crisis worse by […]
New Partnership Calls for the Use of CARES Act Funding to Serve People Experiencing Homelessness, Historically Marginalized Communities, & Extremely Low-Income Households
A partnership of seven leading national organizations and experts have launched the Framework for an Equitable COVID-19 Homelessness Response to guide how homelessness systems can leverage the CARES Act to simultaneously conduct emergency protective measures while planning for recovery-oriented uses of these […]