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Are you homeless or at threat of homelessness?
Contact an organization in your local neighborhood who can help.
Find Homeless Assistance
Local firms provide a series of services, consisting of food, housing, health, and security. Contact a nationwide hotline or locate an organization near you. If you are experiencing a deadly 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 company in your neighborhood.
- Find local neighborhood development and budget friendly housing contacts.
- Search justshelter.org to find community organizations working to protect budget-friendly housing, avoid expulsion, and minimize household homelessness.
Renters: Find an Affordable Unit
- Find budget-friendly 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 systems in backwoods.
- Find economical systems in residential or commercial properties supported by tax credits.
Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
- Find information about renter rights and responsibilities. - Find tenant rights by state.
- View state laws concerning security deposits.
- View ten tips for renters.
- View the Move-In/Move-Out Inspection Form.
Homeowners
- Look for a HUD home to purchase on HUDhomestore.com. - Get help 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 complaint by calling 1-800-955-2232 or sending an email to Public Housing's Client service at HUD-PIHRC@tngusa.net.
Food
- Find your local Food Bank. - Request WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) Benefits.
- Request SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Benefits.
Find out more about other offered 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 disperses diapers to households in requirement. Drug 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 individuals and household members dealing with mental health and/or compound utilize disorders. This service supplies recommendations to regional treatment centers, support system, and community-based companies.
- Locate Behavioral Health Treatment Services near you, consisting of compound abuse, psychological health, and veteran services.
- Locate Early Serious Mental Illness Treatment near you, consisting of evidence-based programs providing medication, therapy, family and peer support, and other support for those looking for treatment for a current onset of severe mental disorder such as psychosis, schizophrenia, bi-polar condition, and other conditions. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 is offered 24/7 to in complete confidence supply 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 in complete confidence with anyone experiencing domestic violence, seeking resources or details, or questioning unhealthy aspects of their relationship. Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 is readily available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anybody experiencing kid abuse, seeking resources or information, and referrals to countless emergency, social service, and support resources. RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656- 4673 is available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anyone experiencing sexual violence and in need of crisis assistance. National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929 provides assistance to at-risk youth and their families 24 hours a day through phone, email, 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 readily available 24/7 to in complete confidence supply help to victims of human trafficking.
Disasters
Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 provides crisis therapy and assistance to people experiencing distress associated to natural or human-caused disasters. - Visit a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) to talk with somebody face to face for guidance 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 message rates apply.).
- Search for open shelters near you by texting SHELTER and your zip code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: Shelter 01234. (Standard text rates apply.). - Locate the nearby shelter or discover your regional Red Cross.
- Find your closest health center, utilize the U.S. Hospital Finder.
- Get support on DisasterAssistance.gov.
- Search on FEMA.gov for up-to-date information on Presidentially stated catastrophes and discover how to get help.
- Visit Ready.gov for extensive assistance on how to prepare for emergencies and disasters.
- Visit Project Porchlight to access complimentary monetary healing therapy and tailored help for disaster survivors under a foundation-assisted grant program, provided 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 provides info for job candidates, workers, and companies on employment and training. Workforce Development Board Locator supplies regional task centers where task hunters can get employment info, find out about profession advancement training opportunities and connect to different programs in their area. - The American Job Center Finder supplies regional job centers that assist job candidates find tasks, training, and answer other employment related concerns.
- DOL's Employment Training page offers a short-term training finder, an education and training finder, an Accreditation Finder, links to Apprenticeship programs, financial help, and a lot more.
Unemployment Benefits Finder supplies info about declaring welfare by state.
Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 provides info about this education and training program that helps youths learn a profession, earn a high school diploma or GED, and discover and keep a good job.
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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 offered 24/7 to talk confidentially with veterans in crisis (and their friends and families). Veterans.gov provides employment chances for veterans including task posts, regional career centers, and online self-assessments. - Locate a VA Medical Center for treatment.
- Locate a Neighborhood Resource and Referral Center near you that offers Veterans who are homeless and at danger of homelessness with one-stop access to community-based, multiagency services to promote long-term housing, health and mental health care, career advancement and access to VA and non-VA benefits.