Are you homeless or at threat of homelessness?
Contact a company in your local community who can help.
Find Homeless Assistance
Local agencies supply a series of services, including food, housing, health, and safety. Contact a nationwide hotline or find an organization near you. If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency, please dial 911.
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Housing Assistance
Contact a housing counseling company in your area or call 800-569-4287.
Homeless Housing Help
- Contact a homeless service provider in your community.
- Find local neighborhood development and cost effective housing contacts.
- Search justshelter.org to discover community organizations working to preserve affordable housing, prevent eviction, and lower family homelessness.
Renters: Find an Inexpensive Unit
- Find cost effective 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 budget friendly units in residential or commercial properties supported by tax credits.
Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
- Find information about occupant rights and duties. - Find renter rights by state.
- View state laws relating to security deposits.
- View ten tips for occupants.
- View the Move-In/Move-Out Inspection Form.
Homeowners
- Look for a HUD home to purchase on HUDhomestore.com. - Get assistance with home improvements.
- Find assistance 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 problem by calling 1-800-955-2232 or sending out an email to Public Housing's Customer support at HUD-PIHRC@tngusa.net.
Food
- Find your regional Food Bank. - Obtain WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) Benefits.
- Apply for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Benefits.
Discover more about other readily available food programs.
Health and Safety
- Locate an University Hospital near you, including Health Care for the Homeless Programs. - Locate a Diaper Bank near you that distributes diapers to families in requirement. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hotline: 1-800-662-4357 for personal, complimentary, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, info service, in English and Spanish, for people and family members dealing with mental health and/or compound utilize conditions. This service supplies recommendations to local treatment centers, assistance groups, and community-based companies.
- Locate Behavioral Health Treatment Services near you, consisting of drug abuse, mental health, and veteran services.
- Locate Early Serious Mental Illness Treatment near you, consisting of evidence-based programs supplying medication, therapy, household and peer assistance, and other assistance for those seeking treatment for a recent onset of serious mental illness such as psychosis, schizophrenia, bi-polar condition, and other conditions. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 is offered 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 offered 24/7 to talk confidentially with anybody experiencing domestic violence, looking for resources or information, or questioning unhealthy aspects of their relationship. Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 is available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anyone experiencing kid abuse, seeking resources or information, and recommendations to thousands of emergency, social service, and assistance resources. RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656- 4673 is available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anyone experiencing sexual violence and in need of crisis support. National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929 provides support 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 aid to victims of human trafficking.
Disasters
Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 offers crisis counseling and support to individuals experiencing emotional distress related to natural or human-caused catastrophes. - Visit a Catastrophe Recovery Center (DRC) to talk with somebody personally for assistance or info. To find a center near you, utilize the DRC Locator or text DRC and your zip code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: DRC 01234. (Standard text rates apply.).
- Look 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 find your regional Red Cross.
- Find your closest healthcare facility, utilize the U.S. Hospital Finder.
- Make an application for assistance on DisasterAssistance.gov. - Search on FEMA.gov for current info on Presidentially stated disasters and discover how to get support.
- Visit Ready.gov for extensive guidance on how to prepare for emergency situations and disasters.
- Visit Project Porchlight to access complimentary financial healing therapy and tailored help for disaster survivors under a foundation-assisted grant program, used by Money Management International (MMI), a HUD-Approved Housing Counseling agency.
Employment and Job Training
- DOL's Employment and Training Helpline: 1-877-872-5627 supplies details for task hunters, workers, and companies on employment and training. Workforce Development Board Locator supplies local task centers where task seekers can get employment details, discover profession chances and link to various programs in their area. - The American Job Center Finder offers local task centers that help job seekers find tasks, training, and address other work related concerns.
- DOL's Employment Training page supplies a short-term training finder, an education and training finder, a Certification Finder, links to Apprenticeship programs, monetary aid, and far more.
Welfare Finder offers information about declaring welfare by state.
Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 supplies information about this education and training program that assists young people learn a profession, earn a high school diploma or GED, and discover and keep an excellent job.
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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 available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with veterans in crisis (and their friends and families). Veterans.gov provides job opportunity for veterans including job postings, local profession centers, and online self-assessments. - Locate a VA Medical Center for healthcare.
- Locate a Neighborhood Resource and Referral Center near you that supplies Veterans who are homeless and at risk of homelessness with one-stop access to community-based, multiagency services to promote long-term housing, health and psychological health care, career development and access to VA and non-VA benefits.
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