How Supportive Housing Can Keep Families Together
Publication
Nov 15, 2023
Homelessness and child welfare system involvement pose substantial challenges for families, but supportive housing can help them stay together and access secure housing.
Homelessness
Why Is It So Hard for People Experiencing Homelessness to “Just Go Get a Job?”
Publication
Nov 15, 2023
People experiencing homelessness disproportionately face systemic barriers to employment, which make finding and keeping a job neither simple nor easy.
Permanent Supportive Housing as a Solution to Homelessness: The Critical Role of Long-Term Operating Subsidies
Publication
Jun 23, 2023
This study aims to quantify the costs of operating PSH—including both the costs of managing the property and providing supportive services—and examine what the implications of insufficient funding are for properties, staff, and residents.
Permanent Supportive Housing as a Solution to Homelessness: The Critical Role of Long-Term Operating Subsidies
Publication
Jun 23, 2023
This study aims to quantify the costs of operating PSH—including both the costs of managing the property and providing supportive services—and examine what the implications of insufficient funding are for properties, staff, and residents.
Housing First Is a Promising Approach to Help Domestic Violence Survivors Attain Stability and Safety
Research
Jul 26, 2023
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a leading cause of homelessness and can harm physical and mental health and financial outcomes. But little evidence exists on how to effectively help IPV survivors obtain housing stability and safety.
LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness Policy Brief
Policy Brief
Mar 1, 2023
Unfortunately, there are more youth experiencing homelessness than there are resources available. Up to 40% of youth experiencing homelessness identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ+).
‘We are outraged’: Youth and Allies Against Homelessness studies effects of COVID-19 on unhoused youth
Report
May 17, 2023
Researchers at UC Berkeley’s Youth and Allies Against Homelessness, or YAAH, conducted a study to better understand how the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected unhoused youth and their ability to transition out of homelessness and into adulthood.
2022 Signature Series: Mental Health in America
Report
Mar 21, 2023
Mental wellbeing affects all aspects of our lives and
our society. Through the 2022 Signature Series,
the Alliance centered a robust discussion of policy
options, trade offs, and challenges around the
experience of patients and their families by taking a
listen first approach.
Resources to Support Immigrant and Migrant Students Experiencing Homelessness
Publication
Mar 2, 2023
Many students and families arrive in the U.S. from other countries without safe, stable housing, and experience homelessness and high mobility that can last for months.
The Education of Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Current Trends, Challenges, and Needs
Infographics
Feb 7, 2023
An analysis of recent trends in child and youth homelessness that show the impact of the pandemic, including a disproportionate decline in enrollment and increase in chronic absenteeism.