State-Level Policy Templates to Prevent and End Homelessness

The Alliance and its partners are bringing together a growing collection of evidence-based model legislation designed to support state-level advocacy to prevent and end homelessness. Each model bill offers practical, adaptable policy solutions that expand access to housing, protect critical services, and advance effective, non-punitive approaches grounded in research and lived experience.

This page will be updated as new model legislation is developed and released.

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Protect Service Providers Who Serve People Experiencing Homelessness

This model legislation safeguards homelessness service providers from punitive local laws, ensuring they can deliver essential, life-saving services and reinforcing housing and support — not criminalization — as the solution to homelessness.

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Outreach and Services to Reduce Unsheltered Homelessness

This model legislation funds outreach, short-term housing, and sustainable services to reduce unsheltered homelessness, offering bipartisan, cost-effective alternatives to street camping bans while building pathways to long-term housing stability.

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Affordable Housing with Surplus State-Owned Land

This model legislation establishes a transparent process for identifying and transferring surplus state-owned land to prioritize the development of deeply affordable housing and community land trusts.

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Adaptive Reuse Act: TABLE Housing

This model legislation empowers states and communities to convert abandoned and underutilized buildings into housing, using adaptive reuse to address unsheltered homelessness while preserving existing community assets.

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