In 2000, the National Alliance to End Homelessness (Alliance) challenged cities and towns across the nation to stop managing the problem of homelessness and start ending it. Through data and research, the Alliance showed that homelessness, although a significant social problem, was one that could be solved. It could...

In mid-march, 26 leaders in the areas of research, policy and practice from Australia, Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States assembled to create an International Alliance to End Homelessness.

Addressing homelessness is now a key policy priority across much of the developed world. All...

Today the nation interrupts the normal course of events and sets aside time to reflect upon the service and sacrifice of those who have served in our military. All of us, no matter our political or religious affiliation, income, gender, or race, unite to honor veterans, knowing that they deserve...

Every year, the National Alliance to End Homelessness hosts the National Conference on Ending Homelessness. Every year, advocates, practitioners, and service providers from across the country gather in the nation's capital to see what we've learned to improve data, to advance program performance, to reduce homelessness. Every year, we come...

On Tuesday, June 22, the federal government officially joined the rest of America as a partner in the housing- and outcome-focused movement to end homelessness in our nation. In Opening Doors: the Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH -- made...

In recent months, we have all learned that making progress on the most important issues facing our country will require extraordinary commitment and perseverance. We have learned that to create change and promote progress, we must be able to demonstrate unflinching resolve in the face of uphill battles.

Tonight, the...

In 2000, the National Alliance to End Homelessness unveiled the aptly titled, "A Plan, Not a Dream: How to End Homelessness in Ten Years." The 10-Year Plan, as it came to be called, presented a fresh, comprehensive and multi-system approach to ending homelessness. It utilized data, leveraged existing support systems,...

This week communities across the country will rally elected officials, service providers and volunteers to conduct local homeless counts, a measure of the number of people experiencing homelessness across the nation. These counts are required by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) every other year as...

In an address he gave on April 9 of this year, President Obama assured American soldiers that, "When you come home to America, America will be there for you." Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki affirmed the President's promise when he vowed to end veterans homelessness in five...

While health care reform is being hotly debated across the nation, one of the groups most likely to be affected by reform has been characteristically silent: people who are homeless.

It's a common misconception that everybody living in poverty is eligible for Medicaid -- in truth, there are many...