List of homelessness organizations

This is a list of notable organizations that provide services or work on issues related to homelessness.

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## A–B[edit]

* 100,000 Homes Campaign, a US program with the mission of placing 100,000 chronically homeless people in stable housing.
* Abahlali baseMjondolo, a popular, entirely non-professionalized and democratic mass movement of shack dwellers and other poor people in South Africa
* Acting for Life
* Ali Forney Center
* Anti-Poverty Committee, an organisation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, that campaigns against poverty and homelessness
* Back on My Feet, an American urban homeless outreach organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, centered on overcoming homelessness through running
* Barefoot Foundation
* Barnabus Manchester
* The Big Issue Foundation
* Bill Wilson Center
* The Booth Centre
* The Bowery Mission
* Breaking Ground
* Breaktime

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## C–D[edit]

* Caretakers Cottage
* Carrfour Supportive Housing, established in 1993 to end homelessness in Miami, Florida
* Casa Alianza, a charity and NGO whose aims are the rehabilitation and the defence of street children in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua
* Catching Lives
* Catharsis (organization)
* Catholic Charities
* Centrepoint (charity)
* Church penitentiary
* Citizens for Public Justice
* Coalition on Homelessness, a homeless advocacy and social justice organization that focuses on creating long-term solutions to homelessness, poverty, and housing issues in San Francisco, California
* Coast Shelter
* Common Ground (Seattle)
* Community of Sant'Egidio
* Compass Family Services
* Covenant House
* Crisis (charity)
* Dans la Rue
* Detour House
* Dignity Village
* Dome Village
* Downtown Emergency Service Center

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## E–F[edit]

* Emmaus (charity)
* Empowerment Plan
* Empty Homes Agency
* Family Promise
* FareStart
* FEANTSA, the only major European network that focuses exclusively on homelessness at European level and receives financial support from the European Commission for the implementation of its activities
* First Step Back Home
* Florence House
* Freight Train Riders of America
* Frontline Foundation

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## G–I[edit]

* HabiJax
* Habitat for Humanity
* HomeAid
* HomeGround Services
* Homeless Workers' Movement, an urban social movement that fights for low-income housing rights in Brazil
* Homes for the Homeless
* Homes Not Jails
* HOPE Atlanta
* Horizon House
* Hospitality House
* Hotel de Gink
* Housing Justice
* Huckleberry House
* I Have A Name Project
* Interagency Council on Homelessness, a US federal program and office created by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1986[1]
* International Brotherhood Welfare Association
* Invisible People, Invisible People is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working for homeless people in the United States.[1] The organization educates the public about homelessness through storytelling, educational resources, and advocacy.

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## J–L[edit]

* Jesuit Volunteer Corps
* Joe Hill House
* Karluk Manor
* LAMP Community
* Lighthouse Wien

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## M-N[edit]

* Mad Housers
* Manila Reception and Action Center
* Midnight Mission :P
* Milwaukee Normal School-Milwaukee Girls' Trade and Technical High School
* Mission Australia
* Museum of Homelessness
* Najidah (Australia)
* National Alliance to End Homelessness, a nonprofit organization which promotes measures to end homelessness in the United States
* National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
* The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
* New York City Department of Homeless Services
* Notting Hill Housing Trust

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## O–P[edit]

* Old Brewery Mission
* Operation Safety Net
* Outside In (organization)
* Ozone House
* Pacific Garden Mission
* Palladia (social services organization)
* The Passage (charity)
* Pathways to Housing, a not-for-profit organization whose goal is to provide housing for the mentally-challenged homeless of New York City
* Peachtree-Pine shelter
* Poor People's Alliance
* Poverello Center
* Project Compass
* Project HOME
* Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness

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## Q–R[edit]

* Quarriers
* Raphael House
* Restaurants du Cœur
* Rosie's Place, a sanctuary for poor and homeless women located in Boston, Massachusetts
* Rough Sleepers Initiative
* Rowton Houses
* Ruth Ellis Center
* Revolutionary Housing League housing activist and direct action group in Ireland

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## S[edit]

* Safe Horizon
* Saint Francis House, a daytime shelter for the homeless and poor in downtown Boston, Massachusetts
* Saint Joseph's House of Hospitality (Pittsburgh)
* Salvation Army
* SAMU Social, a municipal emergency service in several cities in France whose purpose is to provide care and medical aid to homeless people
* San Antonio Housing Authority
* Sanyukai, an NGO operating in the San'ya district in Tokyo, Japan which offers free services to the homeless
* The Scott Mission
* Seaton House
* Seattle Youth Garden Works
* Second Harvest Toronto
* Second Presbyterian Church (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
* Self-Master Colony
* Shelter (charity), a registered charity that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing in England and Scotland
* Shelterhouse
* The Shoebox Project for Shelters
* Single Homeless Project
* So Others Might Eat
* The Society for the Relief of the Homeless Poor
* Society of St James
* South Park Inn
* Southern Youth and Family Services
* St Mungo's (charity)
* St Patrick's Church, Hove
* St. Anthony Foundation
* St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
* StandUp for Kids
* Street Medicine Institute
* Street Outreach Program
* Streetlife (charity)
* Sheltersuit Foundation
* Sulzbacher Center
* Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF)

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## T–U[edit]

* Take Back the Land
* Taldumande Youth Services
* TECHO
* Tent City 4
* Thames Reach
* Tipping Point Community
* Toronto House of Industry
* Transitional Living for Older Homeless Youth
* United States Interagency Council on Homelessness

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## W–Z[edit]

* Veterans Aid
* Veterans Transition Center
* Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless
* Wayside Chapel
* Weingart Center for the Homeless
* Welsh Presbyterian Church (Columbus, Ohio)
* Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, a South African social movement struggling against evictions and other causes of homelessness
* Wild Goose Café
* Wintringham Specialist Aged Care
* Yfoundations
* Youth Off The Streets

## See also[edit]

Further information: Category:Homelessness organizations and Category:Homelessness charities

* List of tent cities in the United States

## References[edit]

1. ^ White House statement on the ICH

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Homelessness

People|

* Aged people
* Cyber-homeless
* Families
* McRefugee
* Mole people
* Street people
* Street children
* Social orphan
* Vagrants
* Bergie
* Tramps
* Hobos
* Youth

Issues|

* Anti-homelessness legislation
* Bill of Rights
* Bumvertising
* Discrimination
* Mental health
* Patient dumping
* Popular culture
* Spirituality
* Vulnerability Index
* Pets
* Survival sex
* Social cleansing
* Slum clearance

Responses|

* Soup kitchen
* Hygiene program
* Homeless ministry
* Homelessness services
* List
* Street newspaper
* List

| Shelters|

* Homeless shelter
* Cooling center
* Drop-in center
* Four penny coffin
* Penny sit-up
* Warming center
* Women's shelter
* Homeless Friendly Precincts

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Housing|

* Foyers
* Housing First
* Rapid Re-Housing
* Right to housing
* Single room occupancy (SRO)
* Squatting
* Tent city
* Transitional housing

Awareness|

* Homelessness Action Week
* Homeless Persons' Week
* Homeless World Cup
* International Year of Shelter for the Homeless
* Street Child World Cup
* Youth Homelessness Matters Day

By country|

| Africa|

* Algeria
* Egypt
* Ghanaian children
* South Africa

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Americas|

* Canada
* Vancouver
* Latin American children
* United States
* LGBT youth
* Veterans
* Women
* California
* San Francisco
* Colorado
* Columbus
* Florida
* Minneapolis
* New Mexico
* Oregon
* Seattle
* Elsewhere

Asia|

* Bangladeshi children
* China
* India
* children
* Indonesia
* Iraq
* Israel
* Japan
* North Korea
* Filipino children
* Thai children

Europe|

| East|

* Eastern European children
* Hungary
* Russia

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North|

* Denmark
* Finland
* Ireland
* Sweden
* United Kingdom
* England
* Scotland

South|

* Greece
* Portugal
* Spain
* Vatican City

West|

* France
* Germany
* Netherlands
* Switzerland

Oceania|

* Australia
* Papua New Guinea
* New Zealand

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