Resource Type: Policy Information

  • (PDF) Fact Sheet: Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025

    On March 15, President Trump signed into law a year-long continuing resolution (CR) that extends funding for the federal government through September 30, 2025. Although the continuing resolution generally extends funding levels from fiscal year 2024 enacted funding amounts, it includes increases for defense spending and immigration enforcement while reducing some non-defense funding. The measure…

  • FY25 Funding (in millions) for Selected Homelessness and Housing Programs

    This chart shows FY25 funding (in millions) for selected homelessness and housing programs.

  • Homelessness and Behavioral Health Care Coordination Act (H.R. 773)

    H.R. 773 would establish in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a program to provide grants to homelessness organizations that would help them to develop the capacity to access supportive housing services, including billing Medicaid or paying a third party to bill Medicaid.   

  • Preventing the Use of Housing First

    Efforts to limit or weaken Housing First are strongly opposed by the Alliance.

  • HUD’s Equal Access Rule

    Updated April, 2021 Background In 2016, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development published a final rule in the Federal Register entitled “Equal Access in Accordance with an Individual’s Gender Identity in Community Planning and Development Programs”

  • Action

    The nation is currently facing one of the most severe affordable housing crises in history. Not surprisingly, those living in poverty are the most significantly affected.

  • Homelessness and the Opioid Crisis: Background, Funding, and Resources

    In October, 2017, President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. Years of rising prescription opioid use and misuse, followed by a surge in the use of illicit opioids have led to a spike in both overdoses and deaths in the United States.

  • Reallocating Permanent Supportive Housing

    After years of emphasis on reallocating low performing transitional housing programs, many communities are finding their Continuum of Care (CoC) portfolios are almost entirely composed of permanent housing projects.

  • Opioid Abuse and Homelessness

    The issue of opioid abuse has risen to a level of national crisis as the number of people abusing prescription drugs and heroin has dramatically risen, and the rate of opioid-related overdose deaths has tripled since 2000.2 In 2014, an estimated 2.5 million people had opioid-use disorders (OUD) involving prescription drug or heroin abuse, and…

  • Homelessness: A State of Emergency

    In 2015, largely due to increases in their unsheltered homeless population, three communities, Seattle/King County, WA, Portland, OR, and the State of Hawaii officially declared a homelessness state of emergency (SOE); Los Angeles has also stated its intent to declare. This brief will describe the homelessness SOEs that have been declared since October 2015, note…