Written By: Sharon McDonald, National Alliance to End Homelessness; Debbie Fox, National Network to End Domestic Violence; and Monica McLaughlin, National Network to End Domestic Violence One clear message from the Alliance’s blog post series on the 2021 NOFO is […]
Category: Unsheltered
The Alliance’s Unsheltered blog series, explores trends, data, and interventions related to unsheltered homelessness.
Unsheltered Homelessness and the NOFO
COVID-19 has brought into glaring focus the health perils people living without basic access to water and other life-saving necessities face not just during a pandemic, but every single day. We also know that a home is powerful medicine, that […]
2021 NOFO: What Is HUD Looking For?
Such an analysis should influence how localities approach the new HUD Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). Analyzing systems can help communities identify key priority areas for improvement to meet their own goals of helping people quickly exit homelessness safely and […]
Heat Emergencies and Homelessness: A Crisis within a Crisis
Written by: Chandra Crawford, Christina Miller But we also know that homelessness was on the rise even before the pandemic. According to the most recent data available from HUD, the number of individual adults experiencing homelessness grew by seven percent […]
Alternatives to Criminalization
As described in part one of this series, unsheltered homelessness presents a unique aspect of danger: the criminalization of homelessness puts those living outdoors at constant risk of potentially dangerous interactions with police. Shifting the response to unsheltered homelessness from […]