List of homelessness organizations
Main article: Homelessness services
This is a list of organizations that work on issues related to homelessness.
- 100,000 Homes Campaign, a US program with the mission of placing 100,000 chronically homeless people in stable housing.
- Abahlali baseMjondolo, a popular, entirely non-professionalized and democratic mass movement of shack dwellers and other poor people in South Africa
- Acting for Life
- Ali Forney Center
- Anti-Poverty Committee, an organisation based in Vancouver, British Columbia that campaigns against poverty and homelessness
- Association of Gospel Rescue Missions
- Back on My Feet, an American urban homeless outreach organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania centered on overcoming homelessness through running
- Barefoot Foundation
- Barnabus Manchester
- Bill Wilson Center
- Breaking Ground
- Camillus House
- Caretakers Cottage
- Carrfour Supportive Housing, established in 1993 to end homelessness in Miami, Florida
- Casa Alianza, a charity and NGO whose aims are the rehabilitation and the defence of street children in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua
- Catching Lives
- Catharsis (organization)
- Central Iowa Shelter
- Centrepoint (charity)
- Church penitentiary
- Citizens for Public Justice
- Coalition on Homelessness, a homeless advocacy and social justice organization that focuses on creating long-term solutions to homelessness, poverty, and housing issues in San Francisco, California
- Coast Shelter
- Common Ground (Seattle)
- Community for Creative Non-Violence
- Community Solutions
- Compass Family Services
- Covenant House
- Crisis (charity)
- Dans la Rue
- Decatur Cooperative Ministry
- Detour House
- Dignity Village
- Dome Village
- Downtown Emergency Service Center
- Drop Inn Center
- Emmaus (charity)
- Empowerment Plan
- Empty Homes Agency
- Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco
- Everyone Deserves a Roof
- Family Emergency Shelter Coalition
- Family Promise of Greater Denver
- Family Promise
- FareStart
- FEANTSA, the only major European network that focuses exclusively on homelessness at European level and receives financial support from the European Commission for the implementation of its activities
- First Step Back Home
- Florence House
- Fred Victor Centre
- Freight Train Riders of America
- Frontline Foundation
- HabiJax
- Habitat for Humanity
- HomeGround Services
- Homeless International
- Homeless Nation
- Homeless Workers' Movement, an urban social movement that fights for low-income housing rights in Brazil
- Homes for the Homeless
- Homes Not Jails
- Hope Atlanta
- Horizon House
- Hospitality House
- Hotel de Gink
- House 2 Home Network
- Housing Justice
- Huckleberry House
- I Have A Name Project
- Interagency Council on Homelessness, a USA federal program and office created by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1986 (Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act) and whose charter is to "coordinate the Federal response to homelessness and to create partnerships between the Federal agencies addressing homelessness and every level of government and every element of the private sector".[1]
- International Brotherhood Welfare Association
- Jesuit Volunteer Corps
- Joe Hill House
- Jovenes, Inc.
- Karluk Manor
- LAMP Community
- Lighthouse Wien
- List of tent cities in the United States
- Long Beach Rescue Mission
- Mad Housers
- Manila Reception and Action Center
- Midnight Mission
- Milwaukee Normal School-Milwaukee Girls' Trade and Technical High School
- Najidah (Australia)
- Nashville Homeless Power Project
- National Alliance to End Homelessness, a nonprofit organization which promotes measures to end homelessness in the United States
- National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
- National Coalition for the Homeless
- New York City Department of Homeless Services
- Notting Hill Housing Trust
- Old Brewery Mission
- Operation Sacred Trust, a collaboration of nonprofits ending homelessness for veterans in Florida's Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
- Operation Safety Net
- Outside In (organization)
- Ozone House
- Pacific Garden Mission
- Palisades Emergency Residence Corporation
- Palladia (social services organization)
- Pathways to Housing, a not-for-profit organization whose goal is to provide housing for the mentally-challenged homeless of New York City
- Peachtree-Pine shelter
- Poor People's Alliance
- Poor's Blanket
- Poverello Center
- Project Compass
- Project H.O.M.E.
- Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness
- Quarriers
- Raphael House
- Restaurants du Cœur
- Ride for Refuge
- Rosewater Limited Liability Company, a homeless advocacy organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio
- Rosie's Place, a sanctuary for poor and homeless women located in Boston, Massachusetts
- Rough Sleepers Initiative
- Rowton Houses
- Ruth Ellis Center
- Safe Horizon
- Saint Francis House, a daytime shelter for the homeless and poor in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.
- Saint Joseph's House of Hospitality (Pittsburgh)
- SAMU Social, a municipal emergency service in several cities in France whose purpose is to provide care and medical aid to homeless people
- San Antonio Housing Authority
- Sanyukai, an NGO operating in the San'ya district in Tokyo, Japan which offers free services to the homeless
- Seaton House
- Seattle Youth Garden Works
- Second Harvest Toronto
- Second Presbyterian Church (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
- Self-Master Colony
- Shelter (charity), a registered charity that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing in England and Scotland
- Single Homeless Project
- So Others Might Eat
- Society of St James
- South Park Inn
- Southern Youth and Family Services
- St Mungo's (charity)
- St Patrick's Church, Hove
- St. Anthony Foundation
- St. Luke's Lifeworks
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
- StandUp for Kids
- Street Medicine Institute
- Street Outreach Program
- Streetlife (charity)
- Suitcase Clinic
- Sulzbacher Center
- Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission
- Take Back the Land
- Taldumande Youth Services
- TECHO
- Tent City 4
- Thames Reach
- The Big Issue Foundation
- The Booth Centre
- The Good Neighbours' Club
- The Homelessness Project
- The Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation
- The Outdoor Church
- The Passage (charity)
- The Road Home (agency)
- The Scott Mission
- The Shoebox Project for Shelters
- The Society for the Relief of the Homeless Poor
- Toronto House of Industry
- Transitional Living for Older Homeless Youth
- Union Rescue Mission
- United Homeless Organization
- United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
- Veterans Aid
- Veterans Transition Center
- Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless
- Water Street Ministries
- Wayside Chapel
- Weingart Center for the Homeless
- Welsh Presbyterian Church (Columbus, Ohio)
- Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, a South African social movement struggling against evictions and other causes of homelessness
- Western Regional Advocacy Project
- Wild Goose Café
- Wintringham Specialist Aged Care
- Yfoundations
- Youth Off The Streets
- Youthcare Hervey Bay
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