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The Alliance has published workshop track descriptions for the 2013 National Conference on Ending Homelessness, which will take place at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel this July 22 to 24. The eight tracks will be made up of 80 workshops covering a wide range of topics, including advocacy, youth, veterans, chronic homelessness, families, rapid re-housing, the systems approach, Continuums of Care (CoCs), and the HEARTH Act.

Use this sample letter as a guide for contacting your senators and representatives to ask them to support a funding level of $1.4 billion in FY 2014 for homeless veterans programs. You can also use this letter to invite your senator or representative to tour your program or meet with you while he or she is in the district for an upcoming congressional recess.

These talking points an be individualized for your community and/or program when reaching out to your Members of Congress in order to urge them to pursue a funding level of $1.4 billion for homeless programs within the Department of Veterans Affairs in FY 2014.

The 2013 National Conference on Ending Homelessness will offer an array of workshop tracks. When visiting the agenda page on the conference website, you’ll see special symbols listed next to each workshop to identify the tracks which they belong to. Workshop tracks are designed to guide participants who are interested in a given topic through a progressive set of workshops. Each workshop in a track is meant to build on the previous one in order to impart as thorough an understanding of the issue as possible.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is extending the public comment period for the proposed regulations for the Rural Housing Stability Assistance Program to Monday, July 1. This deadline extension applies only to the Rural Housing Stability Assistance Program.

Congress should provide at least $2.381 billion for Homeless Assistance Grants in FY 2014. This funding level would cover the cost of the renewal demand and expand permanent supportive housing and rapid re-housing, while helping communities to expand their investment in the ESG program to begin to balance the loss of HPRP.

The Homelessness Research Institute (HRI), the research and education arm of the Alliance, needs your help as it continues to track trends in the homeless populations in communities across the country Today is the deadline for submitting 2013 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count data to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As you submit your data to HUD, please consider contributing to HRI's efforts to document progress toward ending homelessness.

This one-pager provides background information on SAMHSA's Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program. It also explains the Alliance's recommendation that in FY 2014 the PATH program receive at least $75 million in appropriations.

This one-pager explains the Alliance's recommendation that in FY 2014 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) homeless programs receive at least $100 million in appropriations. SAMHSA homeless programs provide critical mental health and substance use treatment services and help chronically homeless families and individuals acquire and maintain permanent supportive housing.

In order to continue the progress toward ending homelessness for America's veterans, Congress should continue to fund HUD-VASH vouchers to provide housing, coupled with services, to chronically homeless veterans.

Yesterday, Senator Jack Reed began asking his colleagues in the Senate to join a letter in support of robust funding in fiscal year (FY) 2014 for McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as well as for the joint HUD - Department of Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program. The deadline for senators to join the letter is TOMORROW, Thursday, April 25.

This one-page brief shows the change in the number of veterans experiencing homelessness in the United States by state from 2011 to 2012, as well as the annual reductions in homelessness needed in order to meet the Administration's goal of ending veteran homelessness by 2015.

Congress could offer necessary, crisis services for homeless youth by appropriating at least $115 million in fiscal year (FY) 2014 for the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (RHYA) programs.

The Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program within the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is the core program intended to assist extremely low-income people with the cost of housing. Congress should work to address the shortage of affordable rental housing for low-income households.

The Alliance is currently accepting applications for its scholarship and volunteer programs for the 2013 National Conference on Ending Homelessness, which will take place at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, July 22 to 24. The deadline to submit an application for the scholarship program is Monday, May 20. Only individuals who are currently experiencing homelessness or who have experienced homelessness in the past are eligible to apply. More information about the scholarship program and the application process is available on the conference website.