Resource Type: Research and Analysis
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Federal Initiative to Address Unsheltered Homelessness Shows Promise
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Lived Expertise Action and Research Network Survey Research
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State and Local Impacts of HUD’s Housing Cuts: Data Visualization
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Visualizing the Impacts of the President’s FY2026 Budget: Returns to Homelessness and Major Setbacks Could Be Ahead
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Housing Instability Among Gender-Expansive People and Paths Forward
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How Much Would It Cost to Provide Housing First to All Households Staying in Homeless Shelters?
We conservatively estimate that an additional $9.6 billion would be needed to achieve this goal: providing Rapid Re-Housing or Permanent Supportive Housing to everyone in a homeless shelter unable to access housing in a single year.
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Why Criminalization Doesn’t Work: Research & Policy Insights
This series of briefs from the Alliance’s Homelessness Research Institute summarizes the conclusions of nearly 100 studies on the topic.
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Increasingly Unsustainable: Unpartnered Homeless Services Workers Struggle to Make Ends Meet
The homeless services sector is significantly defined by low pay and high turnover. Recent data analysis by the National Alliance to End Homelessness (the Alliance) illustrated that most employees aren’t able to afford their own housing given their current salaries.
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Race-ing to Thrive: Homeless Service Workforce Survey Reveals Low Salaries (and Other Challenges) More Greatly Impact People of Color
Pressures on the homeless services workforce are widespread. The Alliance’s 2023 survey of the field shed further light on employees navigating challenging environments marked by understaffing and high turnover, feelings of being overworked, and personal sacrifices significantly tied to low salaries and financial hardship.
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State of Homelessness: 2024 Edition