Guidance on Registering Clients to Vote and Get Out the Vote (GOTV) Efforts for Homeless Providers (webinar)
The National Alliance to End Homelessness, the Fair Elections Center, and the Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy Program hosted a webinar for providers to discover ways to quickly and effectively ramp up voter registration efforts, understand how to legally and […]
A Conversation About the Equal Access Rule and Why It Matters (Webinar)
The Alliance hosted a national conversation about the Equal Access Rule and the Administration’s proposal to end it. Panel participants shared their experience working to create safe and affirming spaces for transgender adults in homeless service programs. The discussion also […]
Responding to COVID-19: Conversations with Homeless System Leaders
August 2020 Following the initial community surveys in March 2020, Alliance staff held conversations with homeless system leaders throughout May and June to discuss how systems are approaching housing placements, ensuring healthy conditions, data collection, staffing, partnerships, and common challenges […]
Researching an End to Homelessness: Election Year Policy Ideas (Webinar Series)
While much of the nation’s attention focuses on the presidential contest, voters will also be choosing members of Congress and state and local representatives. Many of these elected officials have a role to play in ending homelessness. Advocates and concerned citizens will be reaching out to them […]
How are Providers Coping with COVID-19 and the Recession? Recent Alliance Surveys and Interviews (webinar)
COVID-19 and the current economic crisis are testing homeless services systems in unprecedented ways. To better understand how providers are managing the current crisis, the Alliance and a collection of research partners initiated a series of community surveys and interviews […]
Supporting Academic Success and Safety for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
As students return to school during the COVID-19 pandemic, providers and systems leaders have a responsibility to ensure that children are connected to school resources and appropriately set up to participate and succeed in academic endeavors. The Alliance has reached […]
Voices from the Field: COVID-19 and Recession Surveys, Interviews, and Data
The Alliance’s Homelessness Research Institute has conducted surveys with Continuums of Care (CoC) throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to assess their most pressing needs, and identify any trends in homelessness as a result of the pandemic. The reports below detail how […]
Diversion
Diversion is an intervention designed to immediately address the needs of someone who has just lost their housing and become homeless.
Transgender Homeless Adults & Unsheltered Homelessness: What the Data Tell Us
Limited information exists about the number of transgender people experiencing homelessness. There are very few data sets relative to this population, but all the data tells a similar story: transgender people are more likely to be unsheltered than their cisgender peers, and those who […]
Data Snapshot: Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals Experience Unsheltered Homelessness at Higher Rates
Data from the 2019 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count reveals that homeless transgender and gender non-conforming individuals are more likely to be unsheltered than cisgender adults experiencing homelessness. Forty nine percent of cisgender adults experiencing homelessness were unsheltered, yet a staggering 63% […]
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