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Reports: Homelessness

2024 Annual Homeless Assessment Report: Part 1 - PIT Estimates of Homelessness in the U.S.
US Department of Housing & Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development, December 2024, 117 pp.
The 2022 AHAR presents the most recent national estimates of homelessness, focusing on people who experience homelessness by themselves, as family members, and as members of specific sub-populations. The AHAR is delivered each year to the U.S. Congress, and its contents are used to inform federal, state, and local policies to prevent and end homelessness. more info >

Foster Youth to Independence Initiative: Implementation and Evolution
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, September 2024, 48 pp.
The Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) Initiative was established in 2019 to provide assistance to youth with a history of foster care involvement and who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness. This report examines the implementation and administration of the FYI initiative. more info >

The Current State of Youth Homelessness Approaches: Insights and Observations
Homeless Youth Collaborative on Developmental Evaluation, January 2024, 37 pp.
This report outlines interventions, practices, and broader strategies to prevent, reduce, and end youth homelessness. more info >

Community Strategies to Understand and Reduce Veteran Inflow into Homelessness
Urban Institute, November 2020, 47 pp.
Presents outcomes of the Built for Zero initiative, which sought to understand veterans' pathways into homelessness, identify promising strategies to reduce inflow, and implement strategies with measurable evidence of change in reducing veteran homelessness. more info >

Challenges and Opportunities in Addressing Rural Youth Homelessness
Voices of Youth Count, November 2020, 42 pp.
While youth homelessness is prevalent at similar rates in both rural and urban areas, it is less visible and less studied in rural regions. This qualitative study aims to better understand the unique challenges faced by rural communities in the U.S. to address youth homelessness. It also examines the ways they are responding to those challenges and opportunities to strengthen service delivery models in rural contexts. more info >

Housing the Homeless: North Dakota's 10-Year Plan to End Long Term Homelessness
North Dakota Interagency Council on Homelessness, October 2018, 54 pp.
This is a progress report and series of recommendations on efforts to end long term homelessness in North Dakota. more info >

Brain Injury in the Homeless Community - Where Do We Go from Here
Wilder Research, January 2016, 10 pp.
Summary of a dialogue intended to create ideas for more effective and sustainable approaches to the identification and support of people who are homeless and have brain injuries. more info >

Family Options Study: Short-Term Impacts of Housing and Services Interventions for Homeless Families
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, July 2015, 308 pp.
This report presents the short-term outcomes of families enrolled in the Family Options Study, a multi-site random assignment experiment designed to study the impact of various housing and services interventions on homeless families. more info >

Web sites

Advancing Mobility from Poverty: A Toolkit for Housing and Education Partnerships
This toolkit is intended as a resource to build and advance cross-sector partnerships to accelerate the achievement of shared outcomes related to housing, education, and economic stability for families. more info >

Corporation for Supportive Housing
Information and reports related to supportive housing. more info >

PATH Beyond Shelter
This agency's web page includes information on ending homelessness among families with children, service-enriched housing, and welfare to work. It includes links to other resources. more info >

HUD Research Library
Includes reports, publications, periodicals, and data from HUD and other sources. Topics include: affordable housing, community development, homelessness, supportive housing, housing statistics, and more. more info >

United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
Homelessness news, information, and links to homelessness resources from member agencies. more info >

National Alliance to End Homelessness
Reports, organizations, Internet links and other information on homelessness. more info >

The National Center on Family Homelessness
Research on homeless families. more info >

National Coalition for the Homeless
Fact sheets, reports, current events, Internet links, and other information on homelessness. more info >

National Health Care for the Homeless Council
News, events, research, and advocacy information on health-care issues related to homelessness. more info >