United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH)

Locking Arms with States Across the Country to End Rural Homelessness

11/13/2017 by Lindsay Knotts, Policy Director

We convened rural leaders to better understand the challenges and opportunities that rural communities face in ending homelessness.

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Communities Are Crafting Employment Strategies to Help Us Prevent and End Homelessness

11/09/2017 by Jasmine Hayes, Deputy Director

We are learning more about what it is going to take to ensure that all jobseekers who are experiencing or exiting homelessness can access employment and economic opportunity.<... Continue Reading →

Emerging Strategies for Addressing Racial Inequities in Our Efforts to End Homelessness

10/31/2017 by Brittani Manzo, Policy Advisor

We've been deepening our conversations with many of you about the concrete strategies we need to leverage to address racial inequities in our efforts to prevent and end... Continue Reading →

Collaborating to End Homelessness for Victims of Domestic Violence in Wisconsin

10/27/2017 by Carrie Poser, Director, Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care

Only through local and statewide collaboration can long-standing change be created.

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Federal Region 7 Gathers to Advance Progress on Ending Youth Homelessness in the Heartland

10/17/2017 by William Buck, Program Specialist, Administration for Children and Families Region 7

The Ending Youth Homelessness in the Heartland Conference held last month in Kansas City was the first region-wide conference in the Heartland dedicated to the serious issue of youth... Continue Reading →

Our Opportunity to Learn from the Response to Hurricane Harvey

10/06/2017 by Matthew Doherty, Executive Director

Matthew delivered the following remarks at the Texas Conference on Ending Homelessness in Dallas, TX, on October 4, 2017.

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Worst Case Housing Needs Have Gotten … Worse

09/28/2017 by Matthew Doherty, Executive Director

HUD’s Worst Case Housing Needs 2017 Report to Congress is a key new source of information about worsening housing needs in our communities, which could be creating increasing... Continue Reading →

Racial Equity: An Essential Component of Our Nation’s Homelessness Response

09/11/2017 by Jeff Olivet and Marc Dones, Center for Social Innovation

Our national conversation about homelessness has been missing a critical piece: an honest, open conversation about the racial dimensions of homelessness.

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Pathways to Housing PA: Using Landlord Engagement and Flexible Services to Assist Individuals at the Intersection of the Opioid Crisis & Homelessness

08/24/2017 by Pathways to Housing PA President and CEO Christine Simiriglia, Vice President for Housing First Services Sandra Romeo, and Clinical Director Matt Tice

We spoke with Pathways to Housing PA to better understand their Housing First approach to providing housing and services to people experiencing homelessness who are struggling with opioid addiction.<... Continue Reading →

Putting ‘Housing is Health Care’ into Action to Help End Chronic Homelessness

08/22/2017 by Joshua D. Bamberger, MD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor for Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco

To improve outcomes for their patients, the health care system in a growing number of communities is coming to the table to help address housing needs. A new report... Continue Reading →