Resource Best Practice: Emergency Shelters and Interim Housing
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Joint Transitional Housing/Rapid Re-Housing (TH/RRH): Am I Doing it Right?
The Joint Component of Transitional Housing/Rapid Rehousing was introduced as a new type of project that communities could apply for that combines the activities of a transitional housing project with those of a rapid re-housing project.
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Emergency Shelter: Practices That Work
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Emergency Shelter: Reimagining a Housing Focused Place People Want to Use
A safe, welcoming, low-barrier, and housing-focused shelter is a critical component of an effective homeless response system. Effective shelter practice requires listening to people with lived expertise and making cultural, philosophical, and operational shifts according to their feedback.
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Emergency Shelter: Rethink Your Rules to Serve More People
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Emergency Shelter Learning Series
Emergency shelters play a critical role in ending homelessness. Effective shelters should embrace a Housing First approach, offer immediate and…
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Alliance Resource Series: Using COVID-19 Federal Funding to End Homelessness
Federal relief funds to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic provide communities with an opportunity to end homelessness for more people than ever before.
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Racial Equity and Emergency Shelter: Access and Outcomes
Emergency shelter is a critical component of the homeless services system. Shelters allow people experiencing homelessness to access immediate needs like sleep, food, medical care, and safety.
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Community Survey: Protecting People Experiencing Homelessness from COVID-19
The National Alliance to End Homelessness asked homeless providers, leaders, advocates, allies, and those with lived homelessness to complete a survey on what they needed to protect people…
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Data Snapshot: Reductions in Transitional Housing Do Not Cause Increases in Unsheltered Homelessness
Most States Reduced Unsheltered Homelessness While Also Reducing Transitional Housing Beds…
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Keeping People and Pets Together
In communities around the United States, a significant number of people experiencing homelessness own pets.