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: Policy
Effective Advocacy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Effective advocacy is an essential tool in our efforts to serve the most vulnerable people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, the Alliance hosted a webinar to help partners in the field advocate for the resources we all need during this […]
Researching an End to Homelessness
Useful research reveals best practices, enhances knowledge of groups in ways that inform the delivery of services, or persuades people to support efforts to end homelessness. These goals are at the root of the Alliance’s recently updated A Research Agenda […]
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 […]
A Research Agenda for Ending Homelessness
This document is intended to inform government agencies, philanthropic organizations, and other funders about outstanding research questions on homeless populations and subpopulations and interventions designed to end homelessness. The agenda does not represent an exhaustive list of unanswered questions, but instead focuses on the most pressing unanswered research questions immediately relevant to policy and program development.