This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With so many impediments to civic engagement after losing one’s home, voter participation is disproportionately low among unsheltered people and residents of emergency shelters. Following a few simple steps, providers…
There has been a sharp increase in the number of LGBTQ individuals personally experiencing discrimination across the United States, according to a recent report from GLAAD – 24 percent over a two-year…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Having a stable, safe, and affordable place to call home impacts our ability to be healthy. But because America’s foundational housing policies and systems intentionally excluded Black, Indigenous, and other…
Community colleges traditionally have been commuter campuses. Fewer than one-third of the nation’s two-year schools have on-campus housing. But on Aug. 12, 258 students at Kansas City Kansas Community College in Wyandotte County will…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Justifiably concerned about this massive increase in homelessness, funders have been pouring resources into preventing homelessness, creating affordable housing and moving people from unhoused to housed. These are essential investments. By contrast,…
People choose where to live based on a few underlying factors: proximity to where they work, preferred amenities like school quality or climate, and connections to social networks of family and friends. But the pandemic…
Mobile technology has become ubiquitous to 21st Century living, in terms of how we receive and exchange information, for both social and economic interactions. Many of us start our day…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What Can Annual Appropriations/Spending Do? The most important item left on Congress’s active agenda related to homelessness is the annual funding bills for Fiscal Year 2023. In those bills, the Alliance…
If you look at homes on real estate websites today, you’ll likely see risk ratings for flooding, hurricanes and even wildfires. In theory, summarizing risk information like this should help…
A recent survey by the Hope Center of more than 195,000 two-year and four-year college students found that about half experienced housing insecurity and about one in seven reported they either experienced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Testimony of Alliance CEO, Ann Oliva, to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs at the “Opportunities and Challenges in Addressing Homelessness” hearing on July 19, 2022. I…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. HOPE, Inc. (Home Ownership for Personal Empowerment) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to create stable, affordable housing options for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). This month…