Gordon Wayne wants to see homelessness ended during his lifetime, and is doing what it takes to make that dream a reality. Gordon is a 19-year-old sophomore now entering his second week at Boston College. Just a year ago, though, Gordon found himself living in […]
Category: Unsheltered
The Alliance’s Unsheltered blog series, explores trends, data, and interventions related to unsheltered homelessness.
Lived Experience Shows Equal Access Protections Must Stay
This summer, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced its intention to amend the 2016 update to the Equal Access Rule. This policy protects transgender and gender non-conforming individuals experiencing homelessness by mandating that shelter providers accommodate a […]
How are Providers Coping with COVID-19 and the Recession? Recent Alliance Surveys and Interviews (webinar)
COVID-19 and the current economic crisis are testing homeless services systems in unprecedented ways. To better understand how providers are managing the current crisis, the Alliance and a collection of research partners initiated a series of community surveys and interviews […]
Changes to HUD’s Equal Access Rule Could Exclude More Transgender People From Shelter
Proposed edits to an existing HUD rule could threaten access to shelter for transgender people. Now that these edits to the Equal Access Rule are officially in the Federal Register, transgender people – who already experience disproportionately high rates of homelessness and discrimination […]
Transgender Homeless Adults & Unsheltered Homelessness: What the Data Tell Us
Limited information exists about the number of transgender people experiencing homelessness. There are very few data sets relative to this population, but all the data tells a similar story: transgender people are more likely to be unsheltered than their cisgender peers, and those who […]