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Are you homeless or at risk of homelessness?

Contact an organization in your local community who can help.

Find Homeless Assistance

Local companies offer a variety of services, including food, housing, health, and security. Contact a national hotline or find a company near you. If you are experiencing a dangerous emergency, please dial 911.

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Housing Assistance

Contact a housing therapy agency in your area or call 800-569-4287.

Homeless Housing Help

- Contact a homeless company in your community.

  • Find regional community advancement and inexpensive housing contacts.
  • Search justshelter.org to discover community organizations working to protect economical housing, avoid eviction, and lower household homelessness.

    Renters: Find an Affordable Unit

    - Find budget-friendly rental housing near you.
  • Find HIV/AIDS housing and services near you.
  • Find State Housing Finance Agencies with inexpensive rental residential or commercial properties.
  • Find subsidized units in backwoods.
  • Find inexpensive units in residential or commercial properties supported by tax credits.

    Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities

    - Find details about renter rights and responsibilities.
  • Find renter rights by state.
  • View state laws concerning down payment.
  • View ten pointers for occupants.
  • View the Move-In/Move-Out Inspection Form.

    Homeowners

    - Search for a HUD home to buy on HUDhomestore.com.
  • Get help with home improvements.
  • Find help to avoid foreclosure near you or call the Making Home Affordable hotline 888-995-4673.

    Fair Housing

    - File a housing discrimination grievance.
  • File a Housing Choice Voucher complaint by calling 1-800-955-2232 or sending out an e-mail to Public Housing's Customer care at HUD-PIHRC@tngusa.net.

    Food

    - Find your regional Food Bank.
  • Request WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) Benefits.
  • Apply for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Benefits.

    Discover more about other offered food programs.

    Health and Safety

    - Locate an University Hospital near you, consisting of Healthcare for the Homeless Programs.
  • Locate a Diaper Bank near you that distributes diapers to households in need. Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hotline: 1-800-662-4357 for private, complimentary, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, details service, in English and Spanish, for people and family members dealing with psychological health and/or substance utilize disorders. This service supplies recommendations to facilities, assistance groups, and community-based organizations.
  • Locate Behavioral Health Treatment Services near you, consisting of drug abuse, psychological health, and veteran services.
  • Locate Early Serious Mental Illness Treatment near you, consisting of evidence-based programs offering medication, treatment, family and peer support, and other help for those seeking treatment for a current onset of severe mental disease such as psychosis, schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, 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 area.
  • Locate HIV/AIDS care services near you. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 is offered 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anyone experiencing domestic violence, seeking resources or info, 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 anybody experiencing kid abuse, seeking resources or info, and referrals to countless emergency situation, social service, and support resources. RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656- 4673 is available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anybody experiencing sexual violence and in requirement of crisis support. National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929 supplies support to at-risk youth and their households 24 hours a day through phone, e-mail, and live chat.
  • Locate a Runaway and Homeless Youth Program near you for emergency shelter, transitional living program, or street outreach program for runaway or homeless youth. National Human Trafficking Resource Center: 1-888-373-7888 is readily available 24/7 to confidentially provide aid to victims of human trafficking.

    Disasters

    Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 offers crisis therapy and assistance to people experiencing psychological distress related to natural or human-caused disasters.
  • Visit a Catastrophe Recovery Center (DRC) to talk with someone personally for guidance or info. To find a center near you, use the DRC Locator or text DRC and your zip code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: DRC 01234. (Standard text rates apply.).
  • Search for open shelters near you by texting SHELTER and your postal code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: Shelter 01234. (Standard text rates use.).
  • Locate the nearest shelter or discover your local Red Cross.
  • Find your closest healthcare facility, utilize the U.S. Hospital Finder.
  • Obtain assistance on DisasterAssistance.gov.
  • Search on FEMA.gov for updated info on Presidentially stated disasters and find out how to get assistance.
  • Visit Ready.gov for extensive guidance on how to prepare for emergency situations and catastrophes.
  • Visit Project Porchlight to access free financial healing therapy and personalized help for catastrophe survivors under a foundation-assisted grant program, used by Money Management International (MMI), a HUD-Approved Housing Counseling firm.

    Employment and Job Training

    - DOL's Employment and Training Helpline: 1-877-872-5627 supplies information for task seekers, employees, and employers on work and training. Workforce Development Board Locator supplies local task centers where task candidates can get employment info, discover career advancement training opportunities and connect to different programs in their location.
  • The American Job Center Finder supplies regional task centers that help job hunters discover tasks, training, and answer other work associated concerns.
  • DOL's Employment Training page supplies 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 filing for welfare by state. Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 supplies info about this education and training program that helps youths find out a profession, make a high school diploma or GED, and discover and keep an excellent job.

    Veterans

    Help for Homeless Veterans Helpline: 1-877-424-3838 supplies 24/7 access to VA's services for homeless and at-risk Veterans. Veteran's Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255 is offered 24/7 to talk confidentially with veterans in crisis (and their friends and families). Veterans.gov provides job opportunity for veterans consisting of task posts, local career centers, and online self-assessments.
  • Locate a VA Medical Center for medical care.
  • Locate a Community Resource and Referral Center near you that provides Veterans who are homeless and at threat of homelessness with one-stop access to community-based, multiagency services to promote long-term housing, health and psychological health care, profession advancement and access to VA and non-VA benefits.
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