Are you homeless or at threat of homelessness?
Contact a company in your local community who can help.
Find Homeless Assistance
Local firms offer a variety of services, including food, housing, health, and safety. Contact a nationwide hotline or locate an organization near you. If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency, please dial 911.
COVID-19 (Coronavirus): The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers the most current details on COVID-19. View updates from CDC on the CDC Coronavirus site.
Housing Assistance
Contact a housing counseling agency in your area or call 800-569-4287.
Homeless Housing Help
- Contact a homeless provider in your neighborhood.
- Find local neighborhood development and budget friendly housing contacts.
- Search justshelter.org to find neighborhood organizations working to protect inexpensive housing, avoid expulsion, and lower household homelessness.
Renters: Find a Cost Effective Unit
- Find budget friendly rental housing near you. - Find HIV/AIDS housing and services near you.
- Find State Housing Finance Agencies with economical rental residential or commercial properties.
- Find subsidized units in rural locations.
- Find affordable units in residential or commercial properties supported by tax credits.
Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
- Find info about tenant rights and duties. - Find renter rights by state.
- View state laws relating to security deposits.
- View ten ideas for tenants.
- View the Move-In/Move-Out Inspection Form.
Homeowners
- Look for a HUD home to acquire on HUDhomestore.com. - Get help with home enhancements.
- Find help to avoid foreclosure near you or call the Making Home Affordable hotline 888-995-4673.
Fair Housing
- File a housing discrimination complaint. - File a Housing Choice Voucher complaint by calling 1-800-955-2232 or sending out an email to Public Housing's Customer Service at HUD-PIHRC@tngusa.net.
Food
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- Find your regional Food Bank. - Request WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) Benefits.
- Look For SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Benefits.
Discover more about other readily available food programs.
Health and Safety
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- Locate an University Hospital near you, including Healthcare for the Homeless Programs. - Locate a Diaper Bank near you that distributes diapers to families in need. Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hotline: 1-800-662-4357 for confidential, free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, details service, in English and Spanish, for individuals and relative dealing with psychological health and/or compound utilize disorders. This service supplies recommendations to regional treatment centers, assistance groups, and community-based organizations.
- Locate Behavioral Health Treatment Services near you, consisting of substance abuse, psychological health, and veteran services.
- Locate Early Serious Mental Disorder Treatment near you, consisting of evidence-based programs supplying medication, treatment, family and peer support, and other support for those seeking treatment for a current start of serious mental disorder such as psychosis, schizophrenia, bi-polar condition, and other conditions. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 is available 24/7 to confidentially offer therapy services at a crisis center in your location.
- Locate HIV/AIDS care services near you. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 is readily available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anybody experiencing domestic violence, seeking resources or information, or questioning unhealthy aspects of their relationship. Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 is offered 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anyone experiencing kid abuse, seeking resources or info, and recommendations to thousands of emergency situation, social service, and support resources. RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656- 4673 is offered 24/7 to talk confidentially with anybody experiencing sexual violence and in requirement of crisis support. National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929 offers assistance to at-risk youth and their households 24 hr a day through phone, e-mail, and live chat.
- Locate a Runaway and Homeless Youth Program near you for emergency situation shelter, transitional living program, or street outreach program for runaway or homeless youth.
National Human Trafficking Resource Center: 1-888-373-7888 is available 24/7 to in complete confidence offer help to victims of human trafficking.
Disasters
Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 offers crisis counseling and support to people experiencing psychological distress associated to natural or human-caused catastrophes. - Visit a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) to talk with someone face to face for guidance or info. To find a center near you, use the DRC Locator or text DRC and your postal code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: DRC 01234. (Standard text message rates use.).
- Search for open shelters near you by texting SHELTER and your postal code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: Shelter 01234. (Standard text message rates apply.).
- Locate the nearby shelter or discover your local Red Cross.
- Find your closest healthcare facility, use the U.S. Hospital Finder.
- Apply for support on DisasterAssistance.gov. - Search on FEMA.gov for current details on Presidentially declared catastrophes and discover how to get assistance.
- Visit Ready.gov for thorough guidance on how to get ready for and disasters.
- Visit Project Porchlight to access complimentary financial recovery counseling and tailored help for catastrophe survivors under a foundation-assisted grant program, provided by Money Management International (MMI), a HUD-Approved Housing Counseling company.
Employment and Job Training
- DOL's Employment and Training Helpline: 1-877-872-5627 supplies info for job seekers, employees, and employers on work and training. Workforce Development Board Locator supplies regional job centers where job applicants can get employment information, discover profession advancement training opportunities and link to various programs in their location. - The American Job Center Finder provides local task centers that assist job candidates discover jobs, training, and answer other work related concerns.
- DOL's Employment Training page offers a short-term training finder, an education and training finder, an Accreditation Finder, links to Apprenticeship programs, financial assistance, and much more.
Unemployment Benefits Finder offers info about applying for unemployment benefits by state.
Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 supplies information about this education and training program that helps youths learn a career, earn a high school diploma or GED, and discover and keep a good task.
Veterans
Help for Homeless Veterans Helpline: 1-877-424-3838 offers 24/7 access to VA's services for homeless and at-risk Veterans. Veteran's Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255 is readily available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with veterans in crisis (and their friends and families). Veterans.gov provides work chances for veterans including job postings, local profession centers, and online self-assessments. - Locate a VA Medical Center for medical care.
- Locate a Neighborhood Resource and Referral Center near you that offers Veterans who are homeless and at risk of homelessness with one-stop access to community-based, multiagency services to promote permanent housing, health and mental healthcare, career advancement and access to VA and non-VA benefits.