Homelessness Update

Webinar: HUD NOFA Makes $100M in New ‘Mainstream’ Housing Vouchers Available – What You Need to Know The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently issued a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for $100 million in new “mainstream” housing vouchers for people with disabilities. The new funding is targeted to Public Housing Authorities that partner with housing and service agencies to house people at risk of homelessness and people with disabilities. Read more about this funding and join the Alliance and The Technical Assistance Collaborative for a webinar about this opportunity. Webinar: Thursday, May 3, 2018 • 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. ET • Register » Register » HUD Wants to Hear from Your RRH Program Over the next month, HUD will be conducting a web-based survey of rapid re-housing (RRH) programs as part of a national study. The purpose of the study is to allow HUD and other researchers to better understand how RRH programs are being implemented nationwide. RRH programs that receive Continuum of Care or Emergency Solutions Grants funds will receive an email from HUD with a link to the survey. If your RRH project’s program director has not received a link to the survey by April 30, please email rrhsurvey@abtassoc.com. Read More » Video Series: Making the Transition to Low-Barrier Shelter Transforming a traditional high-barrier shelter to one that is low barrier and focused on housing is not easy. But it’s key to ending homelessness. Shelters across the country have changed the way they work by rewriting punitive rules and shifting to a Housing First philosophy. This short video series from the Alliance explores this work in the words of service providers who have done it. Watch » from the blog Ending Homelessness Today the official blog of the national alliance to end homelessness Making the Shift from 'Cookie-Cutter' Rapid Re-Housing to a Program that Houses as Many People as Possible by NAEH Scott Yard is the Director of Emergency & Prevention Programs for the Human Services department of Carroll County, Maryland. In this role, Scott directs the county's rapid re-housing program. Scott recently attended the Alliance's Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) Learning Collaborative in Maryland where he is working with colleagues to improve the state's RRH efforts. He reflected […] The post Making the Shift from ‘Cookie-Cutter’ Rapid Re-Housing to a Program that Houses as Many People as Possible appeared first on National Alliance to End Homelessness. Read more » comments » | Time for Change: Findings from the SPARC Study on Race and Homelessness by NAEH This guest post was written by Jeffrey Olivet and Marc Dones, lead authors of Supporting Partnerships for Anti-Racist Communities Phase One Report. In recent years, an increasingly urgent dialogue has emerged around race and equity in America. But that dialogue has generally overlooked one of the most visible manifestations of racial inequity: homelessness. Homelessness is not colorblind. People […] The post Time for Change: Findings from the SPARC Study on Race and Homelessness appeared first on National Alliance to End Homelessness. Read more » comments » | In Honor of Dr. King: Exploring the Connection Between Homelessness, Employment, and Civil Rights by Mary Gable The cornerstone of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy is his commitment to guaranteeing civil rights for African Americans. On the 50th anniversary of his death, we recall the intrinsic link between Dr. King's commitment to social justice and a dedication to economic justice. In his searing critique of “the three evils” of racism, poverty, […] The post In Honor of Dr. King: Exploring the Connection Between Homelessness, Employment, and Civil Rights appeared first on National Alliance to End Homelessness. Read more » comments » | About Us The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonprofit, non-partisan, organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. Join Us The Alliance is online: on Facebook, on Twitter, on our blog, and on our website! Join the Alliance's online community, and stay up-to-date with homelessness and housing information. www.endhomelessness.org Forward to a Friend