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THE WIN APP: Featured APP of the Day!!

In January 2023, the WIN What I Need mobile app was the featured App of the Day – selected by leading software site, App of the Day! OCLA Founder, Dr.…

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Making Progress on Homelessness, Thanks to Federal Initiatives

So these past few weeks, it was good to see two announcements indicating that homelessness systems in many communities worked to move tens of thousands of Americans from homelessness into housing throughout 2022. Here’s what was accomplished, and what these […]

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New Report Examines Older Adult Exits from Homelessness

The Alliance’s latest report, Connecting Older Adults to Housing: Examining Disparities analyzes the different ways in which older adults exit homelessness by race, ethnicity, gender, age, and shelter status. Based on 2018 data from the Vulnerability Index Service Prioritization Decision […]

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What Can (and Can’t) Local Government Do to Address Homelessness?

More and more, local governments like cities, towns, and counties are finding themselves at the forefront of the homelessness crisis. Who do you call when you need a pothole fixed, or to report a downed tree branch? Local government. Similarly, […]

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New Federal Data Shows Continued Increases in Chronic and Unsheltered Homelessness, Reductions for Families, Youth, and Veterans

In light of the unprecedented economic strain caused by COVID-19, combined with a severe and prolonged nationwide affordable housing crisis, the numbers buck predictions that homelessness would skyrocket during the pandemic. The progress for specific populations illustrates that federal resources, […]

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Dirty Dozen Meanest Cities in the US

The National Coalition for the Homeless has been shocked by the number of cities engaged in raiding encampments of people who are otherwise unhoused, throwing away valuables (medications, food, personal or historical papers) of those without anywhere e…

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NCH Demands an End to the Cruel Policies of Making it Illegal to be Without Housing in the US.

Homes Not Sweeps Actions Continue September 6 – 11, 2022 The National Coalition for the Homeless is declaring the first week of September a Homes Not Sweeps Week of Action. We will host demonstrators, protests, and marches across the nation to ca…

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LA City Council Votes To Outlaw Homeless Camps Near Schools, Day Care Centers

The 11-3 vote came after a tense meeting interrupted by protesters, resulting in one arrest and two police officers getting injured.

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Rising Rents and Inflation Are Likely Increasing Low-Income Families’ Risk of Homelessness

Rising rents and persistent inflation increase the risk for people becoming homeless and serve as barriers to people who are trying to exit homelessness. In a 2020 study, researchers at the U.S. Government Accountability Office estimated that “a $100 increase […]

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A Sacramento housing nonprofit is closing. More than 560 Sacramentans could be homeless

The closure was partly prompted by Sacramento County not renewing two contracts for over $5 million.

A third unhoused Sacramentan has frozen to death this winter. Here’s what happened

“She was like Eeyore. She carried sadness everywhere.”

The President’s Budget and Homelessness: Impacts for the Coming Year

The proposal includes important new initiatives that illuminate the beginnings of a path toward substantially less homelessness in the long run. Unfortunately, the short-term proposal for the largest targeted homelessness account is not adequate, so the Alliance will be advocating […]

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Video: Katie Valenzuela tears up over estimate of Sacramento homeless numbers doubling

“This is staggering.”

Gavin Newsom plans Sacramento tiny houses in latest homelessness plan. Who will get a spot?

About 1,200 units will be built throughout California.

Federal rent assistance money has run out. Could Sacramento’s homeless population double?

Roughly 20,000 households in the city submitted applications for the assistance, but only 7,800 were funded.

Addressing Sacramento homelessness: Gavin Newsom will put 350 tiny homes at Cal Expo

It will be the first time Cal Expo is utilized for homeless people in a long term way since the Great Recession

Keeping Up the Momentum: System Improvement as a Year-Round Process

Written by Kay Moshier McDivitt and Josh Johnson Just thinking about the yearly Notice Of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) process can create feelings of anxiety, stress, and dread amongst homeless service providers and Continuum of Care (CoC) leads.  For many of […]

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What will the new American River Parkway plan do for homeless people besides move them around?

Will a new Sacramento County plan address homelessness, or just shuffle homeless people around?

Dozens of seniors at Sacramento riverfront homeless camp in limbo as they await eviction

The county handed out 48-hour notices Thursday ordering people to leave by Saturday morning.