Most States Reduced Unsheltered Homelessness While Also Reducing Transitional Housing Beds An analysis of federal homelessness data debunks the claim that increases in unsheltered homelessness are the result of the federal government’s pivot to Housing First approaches. The analysis shows […]
Category: Unsheltered
The Alliance’s Unsheltered blog series, explores trends, data, and interventions related to unsheltered homelessness.
Department of Education Numbers Show the Consequences of America’s Affordable Housing Crisis
Over the course of the 2017-2018 school year, homeless school liaisons identified 1.5 million children living in doubled up situations due to economic necessity, in hotels or motels, in shelters or transitional housing, and in unsheltered locations. Nearly 9 percent […]
New Homelessness Numbers Reflect Uneven Progress, Increased Urgency
Despite Significant Decreases Among Families, Youth, and Veterans, Overall Homelessness Increases 2.7 Percent The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) 2019 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress reveals that an estimated 567,715 people were identified homeless on […]
When Sleeping Outside is Breaking the Law
Can a city make it a criminal offense to sleep outside, if there are no shelters or other places for homeless people to sleep inside? That’s the issue in City of Boise v. Martin, a case that the Supreme Court […]
New Research: Unsheltered Homelessness is a Health Crisis
Unsheltered individuals manage profound health challenges that broadly define them as a social group. This is the basic conclusion of a recent California Policy Lab (CPL) brief—Health Conditions Among Unsheltered Adults in the U.S. In the lead up to the […]