The following tools and resources can aid your system in learning more about racial disparities in homelessness, and the structural factors that contribute to them: criminalization, poverty, redlining, mental and physical health, incarceration, and more. The resources on this page can help you in determining where these disparities come from, and how to improve equity across homeless service systems.
Data
The most recently available federal data shows the disparity among people of color experiencing homelessness. Take a deeper dive into how these disparities play out across the country and among different populations:
Tools
Analyze how your community is doing with racial disparities, and use the tools below to strengthen equity within your system.
Blog Posts
Read more on racial equity and homelessness.
- Addressing Racial Equity in the Field is a Must: The Racial Equity Learning Series Can Help You Get There
- Police Violence, Homelessness, and Black Lives
- Using Your Data to Analyze Racial Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Statement on the Revocation of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule
- Juneteenth: Homelessness, Racism, and the Legacy of Slavery
- Behavioral Health Disparities in Black and Brown Communities: Making the Connection Between COVID-19 and Racism
- Advancing Racial Equity: Community Highlights
Webinars and Trainings
Webinars on racial equity provide in-depth learning on different aspects of promoting racial equity within homelessness systems.
- COVID-19 Webinar Series: Using Your Data to Analyze Racial Disparities During the Pandemic
- COVID-19 Webinar Series: Communities Using Data to Analyze Racial Disparities During the Pandemic
- COVID-19 Webinar Series: Lifting Up the Sky
Racial Equity Learning Series
As part of the Alliance’s Center for Learning platform, the Racial Equity Learning Series can help communities achieve their racial equity goals. Register here.
Advocacy and Legislation
Recent administrative actions will push racial equity efforts backwards. The following statements and summaries reflect the need to restore progress to federal efforts that would impact the homelessness sector’s ability to attain racial equity.
- Summary of 2020 Executive Order on Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping
- Statement on the Revocation of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule
- National Alliance to End Homelessness Statement on Structural Racism and Racial Inequity
- Statement: National Alliance to End Homelessness Calls on Federal Leaders to Reverse Course on Recent Policies
- Update on the Public Charge Rule
- Keeping Families Together (and Housed): The Proposed Mixed Status Family Rule Misses the Mark
- HUD’s Equal Access Rule