Ending Homelessness Through Policy
Our policy work is informed by data, research, frontline providers, and those with lived experience.
We drive effective solutions through:
Collaborative Advocacy
Government Engagement
We educate lawmakers at all levels to advance proactive solutions and secure increased resources for homelessness response, affordable housing, and supportive services.
Field Support
Make Your Voice Heard
The Alliance works with advocates from across the country to drive change at the local, state, and federal levels. We believe everyone can be an advocate — and lawmakers are most responsive when they hear directly from their constituents. Throughout the year we mobilize concerned supporters with opportunities to educate their lawmakers and advocate online. We partner with local advocates for virtual and in-person meetings with congressional offices, and bring people together annually for Capitol Hill Day, where advocates meet directly with legislators to share their stories and push for change.
Proactive Policy Solutions to Prevent and End Homelessness
To end homelessness, we must advance evidence-based policy and increase the availability of and access to affordable and quality housing, healthcare, and other supportive services for everyone, especially those at disproportionate risk of homelessness. We are also pushing back against punitive laws at all levels of government that take short-sighted and harmful approaches that punish people experiencing homelessness and who have nowhere else to go.
Expanding Resources
Fight to secure additional federal funding for programs that are targeted to people experiencing homelessness like HUD’s McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants as well as mainstream programs that serve as a safety-net for low-income households like Medicaid and federal rental assistance such as Housing Choice Vouchers.
Supporting the Workforce
The work to end homelessness is urgent and persistent. And yet, the homelessness services workforce is woefully underpaid and overworked resulting in low capacity, high staff turnover, and far too many frontline staff at risk of or experiencing homelessness themselves. The Alliance promotes policy solutions and expanding resources that will allow for the right-sizing of the workforce.
Elevating the Perspectives of those Most Impacted by Homelessness
The Alliance leverages our areas of influence to elevate and promote equitable policy solutions informed by those closest to the problem including people with current and past lived experience of homelessness as well as frontline service providers and community leaders engaged in implementing federal, state, and local policy to prevent and end homelessness.
What We’re Fighting For
Our policy work focuses on key areas that drive real impact.
Getting Resources Where They Matter
We fight to secure resources that communities need to house more people and keep them housed. That includes the federal funds that local homelessness systems rely on, the programs that deliver vital services to people who want and them them, and the programs that make housing more affordable for those with the greatest needs,
Securing Funding to End Homelessness
Our advocacy ensures that federal funds (like Homeless Assistance Grants and Rental Assistance programs) get the boosts they need to keep communities moving forward.
Equity at the Core
We ensure racial equity and lived experience are front and center in every policy effort. It’s not enough to talk about equity; it has to drive every decision.
Holistic Solutions
Homelessness is linked to health, mental wellness, and even climate justice. We work to integrate these services to create real, lasting change.
Ending Criminalization
We’re pushing back against laws that criminalize homelessness and advocating for humane, effective alternatives that prioritize housing and services.
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