Justice and Advocacy Resource Links
Affordable Housing and Homelessness
Lehigh Valley / Pennsylvania
- See March 2021 updates to housing and homeless resources HERE
- See April 2021 updates HERE
- See January 2023 updates HERE
- Allentown’s Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness
Ten Year Plan
Allentown Commission To End Chronic Homelessness
- Envision Lehigh Valley:
Affordable Housing - 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.
Church Resources
- 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
Housing First Model for Homelessness/Mental Illness
- 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
NPR Series – Ending Homelessness in American Cities
- 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)
Social Service, Education, and Advocacy for Homeless People
- 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
- Just Neighbors
- “100,000 Homes” campaign to provide housing for the homeless in major US cities.
www.100khomes.org
Research Papers on Homelessness
- 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