Governor Gavin Newsom’s executive order on homelessness will set California communities up to fail. Now, more than ever, elected officials, homeless system leaders, and frontline homeless services providers must work in strategic collaboration with each other, and in partnership with people experiencing homelessness in their communities, to implement person-centered strategies and solutions to ending homelessness. This order rejects such collaboration and dismisses the input of those with the deepest understanding of this issue. “The evidence is actually very clear: forced encampment evictions are ineffective, expensive, and non-strategic,” said Ann Oliva, CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. https://lnkd.in/e5fRsb8i
National Alliance to End Homelessness
Government Administration
Washington, DC 14,910 followers
Working to prevent and end homelessness in the US by improving policy, building capacity & educating opinion leaders.
About us
The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose sole purpose is to end homelessness in the United States. We use research and data to find solutions to homelessness; we work with federal and local partners to create a solid base of policy and resources that support those solutions; and then we help communities implement them. Our strength is that we are an outcome-driven organization. Starting with our name and continuing with how we choose the work we do, allocate staff time, and use our resources, we focus on one thing: ending homelessness. The Homelessness Research Institute at the National Alliance to End Homelessness works to end homelessness by building and disseminating knowledge that drives policy change.
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http://www.endhomelessness.org
External link for National Alliance to End Homelessness
- Industry
- Government Administration
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Washington, DC
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1983
- Specialties
- Public Policy, Capacity Building, and Research
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1518 K Street NW
FL 2
Washington, DC 20005, US
Employees at National Alliance to End Homelessness
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Congratulations to the graduates of DC Department of Human Services' first-ever peer case management program! The value that people with lived experience of homelessness bring is clear: case managers who can understand what their clients have gone through can make homelessness easier to navigate. https://lnkd.in/g9sAcXn2
Once homeless, these D.C. peer educators will go on to help pull others up
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2024 marks five years of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Foster Youth to Independence program, providing vouchers for youth transitioning out of foster care to avoid homelessness. Richard Monocchio, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, writes about the importance of this program and how communities can implement it: https://lnkd.in/e27i-G-7
Expanding HUD’s Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) Program
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If you haven't heard... there's an election coming up! Prepare your organization to support people experiencing homelessness' right to vote with the following resources: 🗳 Three Steps to Supporting Your Clients’ Right to Vote: https://lnkd.in/eWdS4XEk 🗳 Developing a Plan with Staff and Volunteers: https://lnkd.in/eqcm7h2T 🗳 Four Tips for Reducing Your Staff’s Workload: https://lnkd.in/eh7tqyeb Learn more at endhomelessness.org/voting.
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Homelessness is "one of those societal problems that policing has been thrust in the middle of,” says Derick Miller, chief of police in Irving, TX. “In a perfect world, the first call isn’t to the police, it’s to organizations that can help people in need.” https://lnkd.in/egsdXdQe
After Supreme Court Allows Penalties for Homelessness, Not Everyone in Law Enforcement Is Applauding.
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"We believe ending homelessness begins with placing people in housing, not criminalizing them for sleeping in public when they have no other place to go. The question isn't whether to cite a person in such a situation, but rather how best to address why so many people are unhoused." Read more from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Editorial Board: https://lnkd.in/eGE-K9qj
EDITORIAL: Grants Pass ruling on homelessness offers no humanity
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Please join us to hear from our "Building a Movement" panel, featuring Tina Tchen from The Obama Foundation, Jawanza Williams from Vocal New York, and Evan Wolfson, from Freedom to Marry, moderated by Alliance CEO Ann Oliva.
Closing Plenary - #NAEH2024
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Join us for today's plenary session, featuring Dr. Kwane Stewart from Project Street Vet, and Helen Cruz from Grants Pass, Oregon!
Day 2 Plenary - #NAEH2024
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Tune in to the Opening Plenary for the 2024 National Conference on Ending Homelessness and Captiol Hill Day, featuring Alliance CEO Ann Oliva!.
Opening Plenary #NAEH2024
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"Arresting those sleeping on the streets, cycling them in and out of jail or levying fines they almost certainly can’t pay is not any sort of effective response to the problem. It’s not even a Band-Aid for the problem; it’s more like vaguely dabbing at an open wound with a tissue. City leaders who want to be humane and do right by their residents (both housed and unhoused) will turn their attention to a much more productive set of responses."
You Can’t Arrest a Housing Shortage: Why Anti-Homelessness Laws Don’t Work
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