About HMIS
March 11, 2010
Housing and Homelessness-Related Links and Recommended Reading
Non-Profit Organizations
Federal Agencies
Recommended Reading
NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
National Housing Trust Fund
"The National Housing Trust Fund Campaign is working to establish a National
Housing Trust Fund that would build and preserve 1.5 million units of rental
housing for the lowest income families over the next 10 years.”
National Coalition for the Homeless
"Our mission is to end homelessness. We focus our work in the following four
areas: housing justice, economic justice, health care justice, and civil and
voting rights. Our approaches are: grassroots organizing, public education,
policy advocacy, technical assistance, and partnerships.”
National Alliance Against Homelessness
"The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonprofit organization whose
mission is to mobilize the nonprofit, public and private sectors of society
in an alliance to end homelessness. The Alliance represents a united effort
to address the root causes of homelessness and challenge society's acceptance
of homelessness as an inevitable by-product of American life.”
National Low Income Housing Coalition
"The National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated solely to ending America’s
affordable housing crisis. We believe that this is achievable, that the affordable
housing crisis is a problem that Americans are capable of solving. While we
are concerned about the housing circumstances of all low income people, we
focus our advocacy on those with the most serious housing problems, the lowest
income households.”
Universal Living Wage
"This web site is sponsored by HTH, an education and advocacy organization
that believes the moral premise that anyone working a 40 hour week should
be able
to afford some form of housing.”
MASW Affordable Housing and Homelessness Yahoo Group
"This Group serves as a forum for members of MASW's Affordable Housing and
Homelessness Task Force, for agencies and people involved in the Homeless
Missourians Information
System (HMIS) Project, and for anyone involved in or interested in the issues
of affordable housing and homelessness in the State of Missouri.”
National Low Income Energy Consortium
"For millions of low-income Americans the energy crisis is still a reality,
even though the rest of society is not always aware that this problem exists.
Families with energy hardships include the newly -unemployed, and those working
poor who earn too much to qualify for most public assistance programs yet earn
too little to meet their basic energy needs. Energy bills of low-income families
can represent a much larger percentage of expendable resource than they do
for middle class America - often four times that of typical families. Founded
in 1986, the National Low Income Energy Consortium (NLIEC), brings together
public, private, and nonprofit sector organizations and individuals for a common
purpose: Reducing the residential energy hardships and crises faced by low-income
consumers.”
One Economy Corporation
"One Economy is a national non-profit organization created to be a catalyst
for innovation and change. We help bring access to technology into the homes
of low-income people around the country. We use that technology to connect
low-income people to information and tools they can use to build assets and
improve their lives. Our primary market is 12 million people living in 5.5
million units of government-supported affordable housing across the US. Our
secondary market is 15 million people living in non-government supported affordable
housing. Together, these 27 million low-income people represent $250 billion
in annual purchasing power, or about 2.5% of the GDP. …Our strategy to
help low-income people use technology to build assets and join the economic
mainstream focuses around four key areas: access services, online consumer
content, technology-related policy initiatives, and youth leadership."
FEDERAL AGENCIES
Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) National Technical Assistance
Initiative
"HUD's National Technical Assistance Initiative is designed to provide assistance
to HUD and its grantees toward the goal of implementing Homeless Management
Information Systems by October 2004. HUD as been directed by Congress to work
with jurisdictions to collect an array of data on homelessness, including unduplicated
counts, use of services and the effectiveness of the local homeless assistance
systems. HUD is to collect homeless data and provide an annual report to Congress.
The first Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR), due in July 2005, will
be based on data from both a representative sample and other communities from
across the United States that have implemented an HMIS.”
National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness
"The National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness is the only
national center specifically focused on the effective organization and delivery
of services for people who are homeless and have serious mental illnesses.
The Resource Center's activities enable the Center for Mental Health Services
(CMHS) to facilitate service systems change through field-based knowledge development,
synthesis, exchange, and adoption of effective practices.”
Interagency Council on Homelessness
"The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness is truly a vehicle of out-of-the-box
thinking and creative problem-solving. Everyone deserves a place to call home,
and we can make that a reality by improving access to and coordination of essential
services. Through innovative partnership and leadership, I believe we can end
chronic homelessness within a decade.”
HUD Supportive Housing Program Desk Guide
"This guide describes the SHP grant process from grant award onward. It will
take you through the life cycle of a grant, incorporating everything from very
basic information to the intricacies of grant administration. The guide is
not a substitute for the SHP regulations. However, it is a practical guide
to issues that arise during project implementation.”
RECOMMENDED READING
Da Costa Nunez, Ralph
2004 A Shelter Is Not a Home…Or Is It? Lessons From Family Homelessness
in New York City. New York: White Tiger Press.
Ehrenreich, Barbara
2001 Nickel and Dimed. On (Not) Getting By in America. New York: Owl Books.
For links to numerous Missouri State government agencies, regional housing and homelessness coalitions, city housing agencies, and other Missouri agencies working on homelessness, please visit the HMIS Steering Committee page.
To have your organization’s web site added or to recommend an item to be added to the reading list, please send an email to: Website Coordinator.
Updated: 01/07/2008