As the Homeless Research Institute (HRI) worked to prepare The State of Homelessness: 2020 Edition, the COVID-19 global pandemic erupted. Like innumerable other small corners of the world, progress on the report was impacted. But, far more significantly, its subject […]
Category: Housing
Housing and Health Care: Working Together to Address COVID-19
This post is co-authored by Regina Reed, MPH, Policy Organizer at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, and Chandra Crawford, Ph.D., Program and Policy Analyst at the National Alliance to End Homelessness. Featured image photo: “On the porch […]
Building a Plan: How the CARES Act Can Boost Prevention Efforts
Communities all over the country are anxiously awaiting federal resources from the CARES Act to begin flowing. As the Alliance has addressed in previous blog posts , these funds are desperately needed for those working to end homelessness. While they may be short […]
Protecting People from COVID-19 Requires State and Local Leadership
A new report issued by the National Alliance to End Homelessness examines challenges confronting frontline homeless service providers during the COVID19 pandemic. The report’s findings are based on a survey of nearly 800 homeless service providers, system leaders, funders, and people with lived experience on community needs. Among […]
Researchers Send Open Letter to the Administration: Follow the Evidence on Homelessness
This post is authored by Marybeth Shinn, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair, Department of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. Last week, I joined over 50 other researchers in writing an open letter to the Trump Administration. The goal was to urge the […]