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Homelessness

This category contains the following types of sites regarding homelessness:
1. Public Policy
2. Research
3. General Information
4. Regional Coalitions
5. Personal Pages

Direct service providers and local organizations should submit their sites to either Society: Philanthropy: Organizations: Homeless or to the appropriate Regional category.

Sites in Homelessness

National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY)
Links, research, legislative info, and information about this association of national, state, and local education service and advocacy representatives.

World Homeless Union
A list of organizations and web pages addressing homelessness.

Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center
Reports, briefing documents, searchable catalog of publications/websites/organizations, links library, weekly listserve, events calendar and personal research assistance regarding homelessness and poverty.

National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
Fact sheets, legal briefing materials, links, legislative tracking, agency information and other resources from this legal resource center.

Homeless People's Network Discussion List
An online discussion among homeless and formerly homeless individuals. Discussions and archives may be viewed by all.

Homelessness: Building a Larger Community
Articles on homeless issues, hosted by online "liberal 'alternative' newspaper", The Great Speckled Bird.

HomeBase
Public policy law firm in San Francisco, California, providing policy briefs, research, library and other resources regarding homelessness, principally in the Bay area.

Healthcare for the Homeless Bibliography
List of over 200 books and articles regarding health care for homeless persons.

Information about the Issue of Homelessness
Articles about the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, some links and studies and statistics from the AGRM.

American Bar Association Commission on Homelessness and Poverty
Describes Commission and provides ordering information for Commission publication.

Coalition on Human Needs: Homeless Issues
Background information, legislative analyses, status reports on pending bills, and links on the homelessness issue from the Coalition on Human Needs, a coalition of major U.S. anti-poverty organizations.

Homelessness-Les Sans-abri
The government of Canada's national homelessness initiative.

National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
Legislative information, web links, technical assistance for service provicers and other resources regarding homeless veterans.

Institute for Research on Poverty
Information about the institute, explanations of poverty measures, research, and links. One of two national poverty research centers designated by the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Homeless Assistance Act: US Code : Title 42, Chapter 119
Federal Legislation creating the Interagency Council on the Homeless and providing for funding for homeless services nationwide.

National Coalition for the Homeless
Fact sheets, legislative tracking, reports, policy alerts, library, and links from this advocacy organization.

Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve
Demographic portrait of homeless individuals and families based upon 1996 survey of 11,909 homeless programs and 4,207 clients.

FEANTSA - Homeless in Europe
News and information from the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA) - with links to members and partners.

US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - Homelessness
Research, fact sheets, links to government and private organizations and other resources

National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE
National resource center of research and information with links, library, legislation tracking, searchable index related to the education of homeless children and youth.

National Alliance to End Homelessness
Briefing documents, statistics, legislative tracking, large number of web links, discussion forum, calendar and other resources from this major policy organization.

National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness
Action guide and other materials aided at students.

Delivering Health Care to the Homeless
Basic curriculum for medicine students in Ottawa, Canada.

Global Thinker - Homelessness and the Urban Crisis
List of links regarding homelessness

National Center on Family Homelessness
Research, Fact Sheets and links regarding family homelessness.

Health Care for the Homeless Information Resource Center
Health care for the homeless providers listing, bibliographies, bulletins on clinical advances, funding, program models, video lending library, forms and clinical tools and web links.

Homeless Australia
Homelessness and homeless people in Australia, including policy issues, media coverage of homelessness, statistics, forum and definitions. Pictures and stories of individual homeless people and children.

US Conference of Mayors' Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities (2003)
Annual survey, conducted in 25 cities, examining the causes of hunger and homelessness, the demographic groups that make up this population, demand for emergency food and housing-related assistance, model programs that respond to these problems, and the projected impact of the economy on hunger and homelessness in America.

Homelessness in America
Gerald L. Campbell's preprint on homelessness in America and the causes and prevention methods thereof.

Interagency Council on the Homeless
Information about the Interagency Council on the Homeless, links to studies, publications, US Department of Health and Human Services resources and other web sites.

Homeless Publications - HUD USER
Links to publications about homelessness from The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) Office of Policy Development and Research

National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness
Trainings, publications, bibliographies, referral lists, fact sheets and resource library.

Welfare Information Network - Homelessness
News, a large list of links to publications and research, organizational links and email list serve from the Finance Project.

Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
Articles, documents, events, calendar, links and other resources regarding homelessness in Canada.

International Homeless & Homelessness Directory
Several hundred global links about homelessness

Strategies for Reducing Chronic Street Homelessness
HUD report describing successful community-wide approaches to reducing homelessness and achieving stable housing for the difficult-to-serve people who routinely live on the streets.

National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness (NPACH)
News articles about homelessness