List of homelessness organizations

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

A–B

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
  • 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

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

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M-N

  • 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

  • Old Brewery Mission
  • Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • List of tent cities in the United States

References

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