In spring 2023, the federal government awarded 32 communities across the country with additional resources to address unsheltered homelessness. Before they began implementing their grants, the Alliance asked 24 representatives of the funded communities about the factors that had been preventing […]
Category: Unsheltered
The Alliance’s Unsheltered blog series, explores trends, data, and interventions related to unsheltered homelessness.
Innovations, Solutions, and What We Can Learn in San Francisco
I can’t believe that we are so close to the 2024 Innovations and Solutions for Ending Unsheltered Homelessness conference. It feels like things in life and work are moving so fast this year – and while the conference itself proves […]
New Federal Funding Boosts Unsheltered Homelessness Response
Written by: Nicole DuBois, Senior Research Analyst Unsheltered homelessness rose to an estimated 256,610 people on one night in January 2023, up 9.7 percent from the prior year. This continued a trend of increases that began in 2016 and has […]
Supreme Court and Homelessness: What the Grants Pass v. Johnson Case Could Do
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to take up the case of City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson to determine whether if, under our Constitution, a local government can make it a crime to involuntarily live outside and […]
A Big Year for Homelessness: The Work Ahead in 2024
Is it too late to say Happy New Year? At the Alliance we have spent the past several weeks looking ahead to what we think 2024 will bring for homelessness and housing issues, and how we as a field can […]