Big Issue, The (UK) - Campaigns on behalf of homeless people and highlights the major social issues of the day. It allows homeless people to voice their views and opinions.
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS) - Strategies of economic development, community building, housing, and support. BOSS program participants are 100% poor, 70% homeless, 30% housed. They are all races, ages, backgrounds, and life experiences.
Cal-Earth Institute - Designs low cost housing using earth construction techniques and long sandbag Superadobe technology for third world developing countries lunar and martian applications.
California Housing Law Project (CHLP) - Advocacy organization lobbying in the California State Legislature for affordable housing and tenants rights for low income people, the disabled, elderly, homeless and farmworkers.
City Life/Vida Urbana -
A grassroots community organization committed to fighting for racial, social, economic justice and gender equality by building working class power through direct action, coalition building, education and advocacy.
Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco - COH was organized in 1987 to garner the active participation of poor people on both the design and critique of public policy and non-profit services that result in permanent solutions to poverty. It is a unique organization in that the driving force is low income and homeless people, working in every aspect of the organization, from the volunteers to the staff and leadership body.
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) - FHFA's primary mission is ensuring the capital adequacy and financial safety and soundness of two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac).
Habitat for Humanity - A nonprofit, nondenominational Christian housing organization that welcomes all people to join them in building simple, decent, affordable houses in partnership with those in need of shelter. Since 1976, Habitat has built more than 100,000 houses in more than 60 countries, including some 30,000 houses across the U.S.
HomeAid - Building and renovating shelters for temporarily homeless men, women and children.
Homeless - What would you do if you had no-where to live? No money and no help? This website is about how people survive without a home, money or support.
Housing America - Seeks to ensure safe and affordable housing for all Americans by mobilizing community groups, tenants, students, religious leaders, pediatricians, and other constituencies in campaigns for increased federal housing funds.
Housing California - A statewide coalition of over 1,000 affordable housing and homeless organizations.
Inside Housing (UK) - Social housing news and housing sector recruitment magazine.
Knowledgeplex - Resource for the affordable housing and community development provided by the Fannie Mae Foundation. Designed for practitioners, scholars, and policy makers.
Mass Coalition Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) - A coalition of over 60 member organizations, as well as a number of endorsing organizations. Among the member organizations are housing counseling agencies, legal services groups, social service agencies, and community-based social action groups. All have come together to work on the sub-prime foreclosure crisis in Massachusetts.
National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) - A nonprofit organization whose mission is to mobilize the nonprofit, public and private sectors of society in an alliance to end homelessness.
National Center on Family Homelessness -
Conducts research, identifies and disseminates best practices and innovative solutions, and raises public awareness about the unique needs of homeless families.
National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) - A national advocacy network of homeless persons, activists, service providers, and others committed to ending homelessness through public education, policy advocacy, grassroots organizing, and technical assistance.
National Housing Institute (NHI) - Examines issues causing the crisis in housing and community in America: housing and economic development, poverty and racism, disinvestment and lack of employment, and breakdown of the social fabric. Findings are communicated in an objective, journalistic style in Shelterforce, its bi-monthly magazine.
National Housing Law Project - A national housing law and advocacy center. Provides legal assistance, advocacy advice and housing expertise to legal services and other attorneys, low-income housing advocacy groups, and others who serve the poor.
National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHIC) - Dedicated to ending America's affordable housing crisis. Provides up-to-date information, formulates policy, and educates the public on housing needs and strategies for solutions.
NeighborWorks America - Financial support, technical assistance, training for community-based housing programs.
Shelter (UK) - Help people in the UK fight for their rights, get back on their feet, and find and keep a home. Also tackles the root causes of Britain's housing crisis by campaigning for new laws, policies and solutions.
Shelterforce Online - Shelterforce is the nation's oldest continually-published housing and community development magazine. For over two decades, Shelterforce has been a primary forum for organizers, activists, and advocates in the affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization movements.
Street News Service - News, views and features from streetpapers across the United States and Canada.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - U.S. agency responsible for increasing homeownership, supporting community development and increasing access to affordable housing free from discrimination. Also see HUDCLIPS, for access to HUD's official repository of policies, procedures, announcements, and other materials.
Working Poor Families Project (WPFP) -
A national initiative focused on state workforce development policies involving: 1) education and skills training for adults; 2) economic development; and 3) income and work supports. The WPFP supports state nonprofit groups to engage in a two-part, phased process that begins with an in-depth assessment of the economic conditions and state policies affecting working families and is followed by actions to strengthen those conditions and policies.
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