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 […]
Category: Policy
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 […]
Using Medicaid Waivers to Improve Access to Care for People Experiencing Homelessness During COVID-19
Following President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency, Florida became the first state to get approved for an 1135 Medicaid waiver in response to coronavirus (COVID-19). 1135 waivers allow the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to set aside administrative requirements to increase access to medical […]
Building Evidence in the Fight to End Homelessness
This post is written by Rohit Naimpally, Senior Research and Policy Manager at J-PAL North America, a regional office of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J‑PAL). J-PAL is a global research center based at the Massachusetts Institute of […]