Housing and Homelessness

Employment and Housing Rights for Victims of Domestic Violence, Legal Momentum – Economic self-sufficiency often determines whether a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking will be able to take necessary steps to protect oneself. We use targeted litigation, legislative advocacy, and training to protect victims from employment and housing discrimination and to help employers and landlords understand how they can assist survivors and promote safety, New York, NY.

FirstStep, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – an easy-to-use, interactive tool for case managers, outreach workers, and others working with people who are homeless. The information will help you assist your clients to access benefits from Federal mainstream benefit programs, Washington, DC.

Homes for the Homeless / Institute for Children and Poverty – provides technical assistance and publishes research reports, full-length books, and the bi-annual Journal of Children & Poverty.

Housing Assistance Council, Inc. – a national non-profit organization that assists in the development of single- and multi-family housing and promotes homeownership for low-income rural families by providing research and information, technical assistance, training and low interest loans to non-profit and private organizations throughout the rural U.S.

Housing Laws, WomensLaw.org, Brooklyn, NY.

McAuley Institute – a national non-profit that provides technical assistance and financial resources to other non-profit organizations working to expand housing and economic opportunities for low-income women and their families.

National Alliance to End Homelessness – a nonprofit organization whose mission is to mobilize the nonprofit, public and private sectors of society in an alliance to end homelessness, Washington, DC.

National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE – provides research, resources, and information enabling communities to address the educational needs of children and youth experiencing homelessness, Greensboro, NC.

National Center on Family Homelessness – a non-profit organization dedicated to developing long-term solutions to family homelessness.  Its mission is to translate research findings and field experience into state-of-the-art programs and policies benefiting homeless and other low-income families.

National Coalition for the Homeless – provides public education, policy advocacy and technical assistance around four topic areas: housing justice, economic justice, health care justice and civil justice.

National Fair Housing Alliance – is the voice of fair housing. NFHA works to eliminate housing discrimination and to ensure equal housing opportunity for all people through leadership, education and outreach, membership services, public policy initiatives, advocacy and enforcement, Washington, DC.

National Housing Law Project – a nonprofit national and legal advocacy center established in 1968. Our mission is to advance housing justice for poor people by: increasing and preserving the supply of decent, affordable housing; improving existing housing conditions, including physical conditions and management practices; expanding and enforcing low-income tenants' and homeowners' rights; and increasing housing opportunities for racial and ethnic minorities, Oakland, CA.

National Housing Trust Fund Campaign – the Campaign is working to establish a National Housing Trust Fund that would build and preserve 1.5 million units of rental housing for the lowest income families over the next 10 years, Washington, DC.

National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty – the mission is to prevent and end homelessness by serving as the legal arm of the nationwide movement to end homelessness, Washington, DC.

National Low Income Housing Coalition – dedicated to ending the affordable housing crisis currently faced by low-income households through public education, organizing, research and public policy.

National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness – dedicated to ending homelessness through grassroots advocacy and inclusive partnerships, Washington, DC.

National Rural Housing Coalition – works to focus policy makers on the needs of rural areas by direct advocacy and by coordinating a network of rural housing advocates around the nation.

Soldier On – we have been assisting homeless veterans since 1994. Now, however, we are moving beyond simply offering a response to veteran homelessness to providing a permanent solution. With out Veterans Village projects, we will offer formerly homeless veterans a chance to own their homes – more often that not for the first time in their lives. Our work still begins with getting homeless veterans off the street, Leeds, MA.

Violence Against Women: Employment and Housing Rights for Survivors of Abuse, Legal Momentum, Washington, DC.

Weingart Center Association – delivers high quality human services and provides leadership and innovative solutions to help break the cycle of homelessness and end poverty, Los Angeles, CA.

Women's Institute for Housing and Economic Development – strives to develop, sustain and replicate successful projects that creatively incorporate family supports and have evident impact on the lives of low-income women and their families.  They publish several resources, including "More Than Shelter: A Manual on Transitional Housing" and "Lifting the Voices of Homeless Women", a report by Roofless Women's Action Research that contains the issues raised and policy recommendations of homeless women.

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