Webinars

Supportive housing is a crucial part of a high-functioning homeless response system, connecting individuals and families with affordable housing and tailored wrap-around services.

With $3.524 billion in funding made available through the FY2024 and FY2025 Continuum of Care Competition and Renewal or Replacement of Youth Homeless Demonstration Grants, Continuums of Care everywhere are well underway with their local processes.

The Joint Component of Transitional Housing/Rapid Rehousing was introduced as a new type of project that communities could apply for that combines the activities of a transitional housing project with those of a rapid re-housing project.

An effective response to homelessness requires permanent housing solutions with enough flexibility and options to meet an entire community’s diverse housing needs. But meeting these needs is a real challenge amid the nationwide housing affordability crisis.

A safe, welcoming, low-barrier, and housing-focused shelter is a critical component of an effective homeless response system. Effective shelter practice requires listening to people with lived expertise and making cultural, philosophical, and operational shifts according to their feedback.

Effective Coordinated Entry systems increase consistency, efficiency, and equity in communities’ work to end homelessness. In practice, implementation has been an enormous challenge—making the scale of homelessness more visible, laying bare gaps in existing services

Housing problem-solving is a transformative, person-centered strategy exploring innovative, secure, cost-effective solutions for swiftly resolving housing crises.

Effectively tackling homelessness requires a strategic upstream approach prioritizing housing stability before individuals enter the homeless system. Given the constraints of limited homeless prevention resources, it is crucial to direct these resources towards those at the highest risk of homelessness.

With unsheltered homelessness rising nationwide, communities are actively streamlining outreach efforts at the systemic level. This includes integrating outreach seamlessly into Coordinated Entry (CE) and facilitating swift housing referrals

Human services workers across multiple sectors have been yelling from the rooftops that their professions are in distress. The homeless services workforce is adding to the chorus. T

Over the last year, the Alliance reached out to people in the homelessness field to gather ideas for data reform. The result was a recent report: “Calculating Change: Future Directions for Homelessness Data Use and Reporting.”

The FY 2023 CoC Program Competition has arrived. In this webinar, Alliance team members Mary Frances Kenion, Josh Johnson, Kay Moshier McDivitt, and Marcy Thompson share information about changes, priorities, guidance on crafting a competitive application

Every May, the Administration for Community Living leads the nation’s observance of Older Americans Month (OAM). The 2023 theme is Aging Unbound, which offers an opportunity to explore diverse aging experiences. Join us as our panel discusses the importance of lifting the voices of older adults and creating authentic engagement.

At the end of October, HUD announced proposed changes to the race, ethnicity, and gender identity data elements within the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS).

Learn about an unprecedented opportunity to address rural homelessness through two funding pools offered by HUD. Local rural housing organizations can work with Continuums of Care (CoCs) and public housing agencies (PHAs) to provide emergency shelter

In this year’s Continuum of Care (CoC) Program Competition Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), CoCs are incentivized to assess their systems and programs for racial disparities, develop strategies to address equity, and improve LGBTQ+ outcomes.

HUD’s newly-announced supplemental NOFO is making $322 million available for communities to address both unsheltered and rural homelessness. This funding provides an opportunity for CoCs to identify strategic approaches to reducing and eventually ending unsheltered homelessness in their communities.

Federal homeless funding for the Continuum of Care Program prioritizes the input and inclusion of people with lived experience in local decision-making. Too often, this participation can seem tokenizing.