The new Unsheltered Homelessness resource collection features both new and existing technical assistance materials that highlight innovative approaches to serving households experiencing unsheltered homelessness.
Unsheltered homelessness takes many forms in both urban and rural settings. Those experiencing unsheltered homelessness can be sleeping in locations such as vehicles, abandoned buildings, farms, and in the wilderness.
The resource collection assists different audiences in coordinating efforts, grounded in Housing-First and public health principles, to reduce unsheltered homelessness while improving services, health outcomes, and housing stability among highly vulnerable individuals and families living in unsheltered situations.
The resource collection is organized by topic and audience, such as housing focused outreach and encampment resolution, permanent housing strategies, and data and reporting. The collection also compiles resources specifically developed for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and recipients awarded Unsheltered and Rural Special Notice of Funding Opportunity (Special NOFO) grants, to support local efforts to house people experiencing unsheltered homelessness.