Constituents like you have an important voice when Congress is considering funding and other bills that will affect homelessness. If you’d like to hear about the most important legislative priorities in real time, please sign up for our advocacy alerts or simply complete one of the actions below.
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Tell Your Member of Congress: Sign On to Support Homelessness Solutions
Ask your Representative and Senators to sign on to a letter to the President in opposition to criminalization of homelessness, and in support of proven and positive alternatives to criminalization that actually get people experiencing homelessness housed.
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Act Now: Homelessness Funding is at Stake
Congress may allocate significantly less to homelessness than is actually needed to address the problem. Take action now!
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Take Action: Tell Your Members of Congress to Support the Housing ACCESS Act
The Housing ACCESS Act would do two important things: 1) align housing and health care resources at both federal and state levels, and 2) clarify how federal funds can be used to support local homeless services providers in building their infrastructure to seek Medicaid reimbursement. Take action now!
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Take Action Against the Criminalization of Homelessness
In states all over the country, an organized effort is seeking to criminalize homelessness while attacking best practices like Housing First. We need your help.
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Sign Up for Alliance Advocacy Alerts
Help the Alliance end homelessness. Sign up for our advocacy updates and get the most up-to-date resources and tools to take action on ending homelessness in your community.
Get Involved
It is always a good time to speak with your Representatives and Senators about ending homelessness. If you would like to get more involved, please email the Alliance’s Senior Field Organizer, Samantha Wood (swood@naeh.org).
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The Alliance works with public, private, and nonprofit partners to develop, analyze, and advocate for policy solutions to homelessness. Read about our policy priorities:
- FY 2025 Homeless Assistance Grants: Ensuring Funding Meets the Needs of America’s Current Homelessness Crisis
- Check to see if one or both of your Senators signed on to Senator Reed’s letter in support of $4.75 Billion in FY25 funding for Homeless Assistance Grants and $34.5 billion in FY25 funding for Tenant Based Rental Assistance.
- Check to see if your Representative signed on to Representative Moore’s letter in support of $4.75 Billion in FY25 funding for Homeless Assistance Grants.
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