Directory of Social Enterprises: Homelessness Programs

Published by Community Wealth Ventures and Social Enterprise Alliance
Community Wealth Ventures and Social Enterprise Alliance have assembled a directory of homelessness programs with business ventures and strategic alliances as a reference tool to help build a broad network of social enterprise practitioners around the country.

Targeting the Most Vulnerable : New Assessment Tools

Published by National Alliance to End Homelessness
Who is the most vulnerable to illness, mortality, and continued homelessness? Many communities are taking steps to identify people who experience chronic homelessness.

Targeting Interventions for Homeless Families and Individuals

Published by National Alliance to End Homelessness
This workshop at the 2008 National Conference on Ending Homelessness explored the data needed to improve targeting and the assessment tools and strategies communities are currently using to maximize their resources to end homelessness.

Property Management and Permanent Supportive Housing

Published by National Alliance to End Homelessness
This workshop at the 2008 National Conference on Ending Homelessness covered the basics of sound property management for permanent supportive housing.

Focusing the Media on Ending Homelessness : A how-to guide for aspiring communications pros, concerned advocates, and anyone with a story to tell

Published by National Alliance to End Homelessness
A set of recommendations from the National Alliance to End Homelessness for nonprofits and advocacy groups on specific steps they can take to increase coverage of homelessness and poverty issues.

Virginia
Community Snapshot: Norfolk

Published by National Alliance to End Homelessness
Between 2006 and 2008 homelessness in Norfolk, VA decreased by 25 percent, from 665 to 502. Additionally, chronic homelessness decreased by almost 40 percent, from 126 to 78, in the same time period. Norfolk’s count of unsheltered homeless people revealed a significant decrease from 196 in 2006 to only 61 in 2008, representing a 69 percent decline.

New York
Red Hook on the Road

Published by Sirius Radio/Robin Hood Foundation
Red Hook on the Road (RHOR) trains bus and truck drivers. Their trainees are low-income, having been homeless, incarcerated or unemployed for a year or more. RHOR places 93 percent of these trainees in driving jobs that pay over $25,000 a year, not including benefits.

20 Innovations in 20 Days

Published by United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
Twenty replicable innovations that are achieving results in preventing or ending homelessness presented one per day throughout the month of May 2008, from the US Interagency Council on Homelessness

New York
Homeless Population Down in New York City

Published by Philly.com
The number of homeless people living on New York City's streets has dropped 12 percent since last year, according to the city's annual count of the street homeless. The results of the latest Homeless Outreach Population Estimate, or HOPE count, showed 3,306 people living on the streets and subways of New York's five boroughs, a 25 percent decrease since the first HOPE count in 2005.

New York
Homelessness on Decline in Queens for Third Year

Published by Queens Tribune
According to new data released by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Homeless Services Commissioner Robert Hess, homelessness is in decline for the third straight year throughout New York City.