The Homelessness Research Institute is the research and education arm of the Alliance and is tasked with building the intellectual capital around homelessness and disseminating that information in a clear, comprehensible way.
The Homelessness Research Institute, the research and education arm of the Alliance, builds and disseminates knowledge that informs policy change.

The goals of the Homelessness Research Institute are to build the intellectual capital around solutions to homelessness; to advance data and research so that policymakers, practitioners, and the caring public have the best information about trends in homelessness and emerging solutions; and to engage the media to ensure intelligent reporting on the issue.

The Homelessness Research Institute is led by Director M William Sermons.

Spotlight

Report  |  May 31, 2010
| The Alliance released the second Quarterly Leadership Council Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Report, which documents the progress of 13 cities implementing their HUD-funded prevention and rapid re-housing programs.
Report  |  May 18, 2010
| In the first of our Economy Bytes series, the Alliance presents the state of doubled-up families. The brief examines the implications of the increase in doubled-up families and reflects on the how the situation speaks to the recession’s impact of homelessness.

Library Resources

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Newsletters  |  July 8, 2010
Focus On Homeless Prevention
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Conference Presentation  |  June 26, 2010
Presentation by Alliance staff member M William Sermons during the African American Homeless Veterans workshop at the 2010 Annual Conference of the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV.
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Fact Sheets  |  April 28, 2010
This short brief provides a description of the official methods of including people experiencing homelessness in the U.S. decennial census and, when available, the results of those efforts. Additionally, the fact sheet includes a brief look into the enumeration of populations similar to those we consider homeless today.
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Audio  |  April 6, 2010
M Williams Sermons, director of the Homelessness Research Institute at the Alliance to End Homelessness, on why the aging baby boomer generation may make up a large amount of a new population of seniors living in poverty. KCBS Radio, San Francisco.
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Report  |  April 1, 2010
There is some troubling evidence that homelessness is increasing among elderly adults. In this report, the Homelessness Research Institute presents this evidence and projects that homelessness among the elderly population will increase by 33 percent by 2020, and more than double by 2050.
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Newsletters  |  February 25, 2010
Focus On Homeless Youth
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Interactive Tool  |  January 26, 2010
This Interactive Map presents the results of all point-in-time counts that have been conducted by local communities across the country from 2005 to 2008 and reported to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Report  |  January 12, 2009
In 2007, the National Alliance to End Homelessness released Homelessness Counts, establishing a 2005 baseline for measuring progress in the fight to end homelessness. This report is a follow up to that report. Here, we analyze the changes from 2005 to 2007, looking more closely at changes at the state level and among subpopulations.