This guest post was written by Rebecca Cohen, associate in the Social & Economic Policy Division of Abt Associates. In May 2018, Kittitas County became the latest community to be recognized by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, U.S. Department of […]
For the past ten years, federal policy and community practices have focused on the value of collaboration and a system-wide approach to ending homelessness. That’s why, in 2014, The National Alliance to End Homelessness introduced the concept of a Learning […]
This post is part of Unsheltered, an Alliance blog series to explore the crisis of unsheltered homelessness in the United States. You can catch up on the whole series here. If you’re watching closely today, you may notice something important. […]
Communities across the nation are working to end homelessness – but they can’t do it without federal dollars. That’s why the Alliance is watching closely as the federal budget process unrolls for the 2019 fiscal year (FY). Congress has reached […]
Each night, nearly 200,000 Americans sleep outside or in a place not meant for human habitation, like an abandoned building, a park, or a car. Between 2015 and 2017, this population of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness jumped by almost 20,000. […]