• Supportive Housing Program: helps homeless people to meet three goals: find a permanent home, increase their income and skills in the workplace, and gain important decision-making skills
• Shelter-Plus Care Program: provides rental assistance grants for homeless persons with disabilities via four initiatives: Tenant, Sponsor, Project, and Single Room Occupancy Rental Assistance.
• Single Room Occupancy Program: provides rental assistance on behalf of homeless individuals in connection with moderate rehabilitation of SRO dwellings.

• Grants for the Benefit of Homeless Individuals (GBH), 
• Treatment for Homeless Individuals (THI), 
• Community Partnership to End Homelessness Act ( S 1518) ,
• Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act (H.R. 840),  National Affordable Housing Trust Fund (H.R. 2895/S. 2523) 
• Section 8 Housing Vouchers
• The HEARTH Act, enacted by Congress in May 2009 mandated that the USICH produce a “national strategic plan” to end homelessness to Congress and the President. Beginning in January 2010, USICH held regional stakeholder meetings, organized federal working groups focused on specific populations, solicited public comment through an interactive website, and engaged experts from across the country to develop an action plan to solve homelessness for veterans, adults, families, youth, and children. 

Key Organizations/Individuals   contacts for public and private organizations and key individuals

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• Non-Profit - Advocacy/Membership/Network

• National Coalition for the Homeless: a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission. That mission, our common bond, is to end homelessness. We are committed to creating the systemic and attitudinal changes necessary to prevent and end homelessness. At the same time, we work to meet the immediate needs of people who are currently experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of doing so. We take as our first principle of practice that people who are currently experiencing homelessness or have formerly experienced homelessness must be actively involved in all of our work. Toward this end, the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) engages in public education, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing. We focus our work in the following 4 areas: housing justice, economic justice, health care justice, and civil rights.
• National Alliance to End Homelessness: The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States.
• National Center on Family Homelessness: The National Center on Family Homelessness (The National Center) conducts state-of-the-art research, identifies and disseminates best practices and innovative solutions, and raises public awareness about the unique needs of homeless families.
• Campaign to End Child Homelessness: The Campaign is reaching out to state and local officials, policymakers, families, communities, advocates, service providers and the media to galvanize public and political will to end child homelessness in America.
• National Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Council: HCH is a membership organization whose missions is to help bring about reform of the health care system to best serve the needs of people who are homeless, to work in alliance with others whose broader purpose is to eliminate homelessness, and to provide support to Council members.
• Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative:  The Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative is a nonprofit organization formed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Casey Family Programs to help youth in foster care make successful transitions to adulthood.
• Housing Assistance Council 
• U.S. Conference of Mayors:  

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Bibliography   web sites, reports, articles, and other reference material 

• 2009 Hunger and Homelessness Survey, US Conference of Mayors
• Hunger, Family Homelessness on Rise in US Cities, US Conference of Mayors — The U.S. Conference of Mayors said cities reported a 26 percent jump in demand for hunger assistance over the past year, the largest average increase since 1991. Middle-class families as well as the uninsured, elderly, working poor and homeless increasingly looked for help with hunger, which was mainly fueled by unemployment, high housing costs and low wages.