The Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) report highlights data focused on people living in homeless services system shelters throughout 2019 and 2020. This timeframe paints a picture of the status quo both immediately before and after the pandemic began. These […]
Category: Racial Inequalities
Moving The Needle: Leveraging the CoC Program Competition NOFO for Justice and Equity
The 2022 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program Competition Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) continues the work of past NOFOs by incorporating equity as a top priority, evident by the increase of available points in the 2022 CoC NOFO. Historically, CoC […]
Opening Plenary Remarks from CEO Ann Oliva, 2022 National Conference on Ending Homelessness
Thank you. It feels a bit surreal being up here today. Not just because I have gotten used to seeing so many of you in little zoom boxes, but because this is the first time in my own professional […]
Hope, Resiliency, and Strategic Thinking: Leveraging Our Conference to Help End Homelessness
The Alliance’s National Conference on Ending Homelessness in July will be the first in-person conference we’ve held in more than two years. So much has happened since then. First, we’ve been in the midst of a health crisis – the […]
Rising Rents and Inflation Are Likely Increasing Low-Income Families’ Risk of Homelessness
Rising rents and persistent inflation increase the risk for people becoming homeless and serve as barriers to people who are trying to exit homelessness. In a 2020 study, researchers at the U.S. Government Accountability Office estimated that “a $100 increase […]