On the longest night of the year, we remember those who died without homes. Attending annual Homeless Persons Memorial events certainly elicits great sadness, but also anger. It is hard not to be angry about the ongoing injustice of people […]
Category: Unsheltered
The Alliance’s Unsheltered blog series, explores trends, data, and interventions related to unsheltered homelessness.
Pets Can Be a Barrier — or an Open Door — to Ending an Individual’s Homelessness
Street Outreach staff often share a similar story… Someone they know has been living on the street for a long time and continually turns down assistance or shelter. Suddenly, the individual reaches out for help because their service animal or […]
Court Says Cities Can’t Criminalize Sleeping Outside Absent Other Housing or Shelter Options
Written by Eric Tars, Senior Attorney, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. Last Tuesday, September 4, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that people experiencing homelessness cannot be punished for sleeping outside in the absence of adequate alternatives. The […]
Hurricane Florence: The Homeless System’s Response
As the southeastern and mid-Atlantic sections of the U.S. nervously await the arrival of what could be a severely damaging hurricane, disaster preparedness is well underway. States of emergency have been declared and mandatory evacuations have been ordered along the […]
Would Adding More Emergency Shelter Help Reduce Unsheltered Homelessness? It’s Complicated…
This post is part of Unsheltered, an Alliance blog series to exploring the crisis of unsheltered homelessness in the United States. You can catch up on the whole series here. It’s easy to wonder why we don’t just build more shelter […]