Are you homeless or at threat of homelessness?
Contact a company in your regional neighborhood who can assist.
Find Homeless Assistance
Local agencies offer a variety of services, including food, housing, health, and security. Contact a nationwide hotline or locate a company near you. If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency, please dial 911.
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Housing Assistance
Contact a housing counseling agency in your location or call 800-569-4287.
Homeless Housing Help
- Contact a homeless service provider in your community.
- Find local neighborhood development and budget friendly housing contacts.
- Search justshelter.org to find neighborhood companies working to preserve cost effective housing, prevent eviction, and decrease household homelessness.
Renters: Find a Budget-friendly Unit
- Find economical rental housing near you.
- Find HIV/AIDS housing and services near you.
- Find State Housing Finance Agencies with affordable rental residential or commercial properties.
- Find subsidized systems in rural locations.
- Find cost effective units in residential or commercial properties supported by tax credits.
Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
- Find info about tenant rights and obligations.
- Find renter rights by state.
- View state laws regarding security deposits.
- View 10 pointers for renters.
- View the Move-In/Move-Out Inspection Form.
Homeowners
- Search for a HUD home to acquire on HUDhomestore.com.
- Get help with home enhancements.
- Find assistance to prevent 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 grievance by calling 1-800-955-2232 or sending an email to Public Housing's Customer Service at [email protected].
Food
- Find your regional Food Bank.
- Look For WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) Benefits.
- Request SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Benefits.
Learn more about other available food programs.
Health and Safety
- Locate an University Hospital near you, consisting of Health Care for the Homeless Programs.
- Locate a Diaper Bank near you that disperses diapers to families 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, info service, in English and Spanish, for individuals and relative dealing with mental health and/or compound utilize disorders. This service provides recommendations to regional treatment centers, support system, and community-based companies.
- Locate Behavioral Health Treatment Services near you, consisting of substance abuse, mental health, and veteran services.
- Locate Early Serious Mental Disorder Treatment near you, including evidence-based programs supplying medication, treatment, family and peer assistance, and other assistance for those seeking treatment for a current start of major psychological health problem such as psychosis, schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, and other conditions.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 is available 24/7 to confidentially supply counseling services at a crisis center in your location.
- Locate HIV/AIDS care services near you.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 is available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anyone experiencing domestic violence, looking for resources or info, or questioning unhealthy elements of their relationship.
Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 is readily available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anyone experiencing kid abuse, looking for resources or details, and referrals to countless emergency, social service, and support resources.
RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656- 4673 is readily available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anyone experiencing sexual violence and in need of crisis support.
National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929 supplies 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 confidentially provide help to victims of human trafficking.
Disasters
Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 provides crisis counseling and assistance to individuals experiencing emotional distress associated to natural or human-caused disasters.
- Visit a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) to talk with somebody in individual for assistance or details. 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 rates use.).
- Search for open shelters near you by texting SHELTER and your postal code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: Shelter 01234. (Standard text rates apply.).
- Locate the nearest shelter or discover your regional Red Cross.
- Find your closest healthcare facility, use the U.S. Hospital Finder.
- Apply for help on DisasterAssistance.gov.
- Search on FEMA.gov for up-to-date information on Presidentially stated disasters and find out how to get support.
- Visit Ready.gov for extensive guidance on how to prepare for emergencies and catastrophes.
- Visit Project Porchlight to access complimentary financial healing counseling and customized assistance for disaster survivors under a foundation-assisted grant program, used by Finance International (MMI), a HUD-Approved Housing Counseling company.
Employment and Job Training
- DOL's Employment and Training Helpline: 1-877-872-5627 provides information for job seekers, workers, and companies on employment and training.
Workforce Development Board Locator offers regional task centers where job applicants can get work info, find out about profession advancement training chances and link to numerous programs in their area.
- The American Job Center Finder provides local job centers that help task hunters discover jobs, training, and answer other work associated questions.
- DOL's Employment Training page provides a short-term training finder, an education and training finder, an Accreditation Finder, links to Apprenticeship programs, monetary aid, and a lot more.
Welfare Finder supplies details about submitting for welfare by state.
Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 supplies info about this education and training program that helps young individuals discover a career, make a high school diploma or GED, and discover and keep a good task.
Veterans
Help for Homeless Veterans Helpline: 1-877-424-3838 provides 24/7 access to VA's services for homeless and at-risk Veterans.
Veteran's Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255 is available 24/7 to talk confidentially with veterans in crisis (and their friends and families).
Veterans.gov offers work opportunities for veterans including job postings, local profession centers, and online self-assessments.
- Locate a VA Medical Center for treatment.
- Locate a Community 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 health care, profession advancement and access to VA and non-VA benefits.
