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.

The Institute QuickData Guide, Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center, Los Angeles, CA: June 2004

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 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.

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

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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