Expanding HUD’s Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) Program
This year we celebrate the five-year anniversary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s award-winning Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) program. FYI was established in 2019 as a result of the advocacy of current and former foster […]
The Importance of Partnerships in Ending Youth Homelessness
Every young person deserves the dignity and security of stable housing, and this is especially true for youth and young adults formerly in foster care. No young person should transition out of foster care without a plan for housing and […]
Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) Voucher Program
Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) vouchers provide dedicated rental assistance to support youth in two situations: youth exiting foster care who are at risk of homelessness, and youth who have become homeless (or at risk of homelessness) after having been […]
Youth and Young Adults
Updated December 2023. How Many Youth Are Homeless? On a single night in 2023: 34,703 unaccompanied youth were counted as homeless. Of those, 90.6 percent were between the ages of 18 to 24. The remaining 9.3 percent (or 3,240 unaccompanied […]
Impacts of COVID-19 Relief on Sheltered Homelessness
Recent data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shows that federal COVID-19 relief measures likely contributed to declining homelessness among the sheltered population. Continued investments are still needed, however, to address growing homelessness among transgender and […]
Diverting Foster Youth from Homelessness
The years of traumatic experiences put foster youth in a vulnerable position when they age out of the system at age 18. This blog post explores several approaches that the federal government, states, and other organizations have deployed to address […]
The President’s Budget and Homelessness: Impacts for the Coming Year
The proposal includes important new initiatives that illuminate the beginnings of a path toward substantially less homelessness in the long run. Unfortunately, the short-term proposal for the largest targeted homelessness account is not adequate, so the Alliance will be advocating […]
Something to Be Proud Of
Despite the many parades and rainbows, the joy of celebration, and the strides that society as a whole has made to embrace LGBTQ people, there is still an ongoing fight for equality and equity, both inside and outside the homelessness […]
Current Federal Relief Could Largely Solve Homelessness Right Now!
Author(s): Joy Moses, Sharon McDonald Funds have already been allocated and are in circulation for each of these programs. However, for those states and communities that have yet to strategically coordinate these resources towards ending literal homelessness, it’s not too […]
Millions of Americans Are Housing Insecure: Rent Relief and Eviction Assistance Continue to Be Critical
Written By Julie Pagaduan | November 9, 2021 Among the most striking results were the responses from August 18 – 30, 2021 (week 36 of the survey), when the federal eviction moratorium ended, indicating that nearly half of adult renters […]
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