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 […]
Category: Policy
COVID-19 Webinar Series
Alliance staff and other experts will be discussing various tools, guidance, and strategies relating to how providers and homelessness system leaders can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. This page will be updated as subsequent webinars are conducted. View webinar recordings, […]
Community Survey: Protecting People Experiencing Homelessness from COVID-19
The National Alliance to End Homelessness asked homeless providers, leaders, advocates, allies, and those with lived homelessness to complete a survey on what they needed to protect people experiencing homelessness from COVID-19. The Alliance released the survey on March 20 […]
Fact Sheet: Population At-Risk – Homelessness and the COVID-19 Crisis
People experiencing homelessness are uniquely at risk for contracting COVID-19. The Alliance’s Homelessness Research Institute has compiled a fact sheet on COVID-19 and homelessness, based on researchers’ recent recommendations on how to serve this vulnerable population during the pandemic. These recommendations […]
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 […]