Resource Type: Policy Information
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FY25 Funding (in millions) for Selected Homelessness and Housing Programs
This chart shows FY25 funding (in millions) for selected homelessness and housing programs.
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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.
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Protecting the Use of Housing First
Efforts to limit or weaken Housing First are strongly opposed by the Alliance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Rapid Re-Housing: A History and Core Components
This resource provides a brief overview of the history and effectiveness of rapid re-housing and provides context for the Alliance’s “Core Components of Rapid Re-Housing” resource, which the Alliance developed in collaboration with the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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What is a Point-in-Time Count?
This resource describes the “point-in-time counts” – the regular count of people experiencing homelessness. The Department of Housing and Urban Development requires communities to submit these counts as part of their application for federal homeless assistance funds.