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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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Working with Unsheltered People: Findings from the Alliance’s Workforce Survey
During the summer of 2023, the Alliance surveyed the nation’s homeless services workforce. The online questions were answered by 5,044 people in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The…
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Written by Ann Oliva
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Homelessness Reaches the Supreme Court: As It Weighs One Approach, A Better One Waits in the Wings
In evaluating the case of City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider amicus briefs filed by a collection of jurisdictions that express varying levels of support for criminalization (e.g., encampment evictions, fines, arrests, or threats of such actions) as a needed or useful remedy for unsheltered homelessness.
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New Federal Funding Boosts Unsheltered Homelessness Response
Unsheltered homelessness rose to an estimated 256,610 people on one night in January 2023, up 9.7 percent from the prior year. This continued a trend of increases that began in 2016 and has occurred every year since.
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How Federal Funding Sparks Innovation on Unsheltered Homelessness
In 2023, thirty-two communities across the country won significant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to respond to unsheltered homelessness.
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Federal Data Demonstrates the Need for Safe, Supportive, and Specific Housing for Gender-Expansive People
As understanding of gender identity evolves, provision of shelter and housing for gender-expansive individuals must also adapt and change. Data shows that this population…
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