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Homelessness Tools & Resources

National Alliance to End Homelessness
The National Alliance to End Homelessness (the “Alliance”) is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. Alliance efforts focus on improving policy, building capacity, and educating opinion leaders. The Alliance also publishes research on the homelessness, including factors that contribute to homelessness and solutions.

Street Sense
Street Sense is a 16-page biweekly newspaper founded in 2003 and sold on the streets of Washington, D.C. Its mission is to raise awareness of homelessness and poverty in the city and to create economic opportunities for people experiencing homelessness.

Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
HUD provides links to local resources for the homeless, such as where to find housing assistance, counseling services, food and health care.

Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness
Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness has data about homelessness in Washington, D.C., including statistics on the number of homeless and information on their circumstances.

Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments helps compile this data for the region.

Articles

Thousands Jam Mall for Homeless Walk CBS: Armando Trull - click here

Volunteers of America Story - read more

Citizen Journalism: Fannie Mae’s Help the Homeless - Washington Times - read more

Homeless people learn to feed others as chefs - read more.

Shelter Is Even More Tenuous, City Budget Cuts Stun Advocates for Homeless - read more

The New York Times:  Homeless Persons Navigator - read more

Khadijah's Journey:  Skid Row to Harvard - read more

Fox Mill Elementary Helps Homeless - read more

Potomac Elementary's annual event to raise awareness - read more

Washington Post:  Out of the Debris - read article

Washington Post:  Taking aim at homelessness; Arlington gets funds to help with rent subsidies, security deposits, moving costs and emergency lodging - read article

Forest Knolls students host walk for homeless - read more

Why they walked, by Gina Rudan, President of Genuine Insights and Help the Homeless Walkathon Announcer - read blog

Washington Post:  A great burden grows; Charities that ease crises now face their own fight for survival - read more

Borromeo Housing's Elizabeth House program featured on ABC News! - read more

D.C. Central Kitchen Entrepreneurship Article - read more
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