Affordable Housing and Homelessness

• Allentown's Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness
  Ten Year Plan
  Vision Statement
• Lehigh Valley Coalition on Affordable Housing
  portal.caclv.org
• The Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania
  www.housingalliancepa.org
• National Alliance to End Homelessness
  www.endhomelessness.org
  HEARTH Act summary
  This report provides a detailed overview of the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act signed into law on May 20, 2009. The document explains the bill's background, provides details on its provisions.

• Presbyterian Network to End Homelessness
  www.pnteh.org
• "Homeless in the United States"
  A United Methodist Resolution on Homelessness --
  background information and recommendations for church advocacy

• HUD Report: The Applicability of Housing First Models to Homeless Persons with Serious Mental Illness
  www.huduser.org
• Housing First network
  www.endhomelessness.org/.../housingfirst

• Ending Homelessness: A Model That Just Might Work, by Pam Fessler (March 7, 2011).
  Common Ground brings chronic homeless people off the streets in New York's Times Square - and shares their model with other cities.
• Ending Homelessness in San Diego (March 8, 2011)

• Pennsylvania Homeless Children's Initiative
  homeless.center-school.org
• Interfaith Hospitality Network
  www.familypromise.org
  National program to help churches provide emergency shelter for homeless people
• Just Neighbors
  Resources for education and advocacy on poverty and homelessness
• "100,000 Homes" campaign to provide housing for the homeless in major US cities.
  www.100khomes.org

• Rearranging the Deck Chairs or Reallocating the Lifeboats?: Homelessness Assistance and Its Alternatives, by Dennis P. Culhane and Stephen Metraux
  Abstract Full Text (pdf)
• The Cost of Homelessness: A Perspective from the United States, by Dennis P. Culhane
  Abstract Full Text (pdf)
• Other Papers on Homelessness