Are you homeless or at danger of homelessness?

Contact a company in your regional community who can help.

Find Homeless Assistance

Local agencies offer a variety of services, consisting of food, housing, health, and security. Contact a national hotline or find a company near you. If you are experiencing a dangerous emergency situation, please dial 911.

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Housing Assistance

Contact a housing counseling agency in your area or call 800-569-4287.

Homeless Housing Help

- Contact a homeless provider in your neighborhood.
- Find regional community development and budget friendly housing contacts.
- Search justshelter.org to find community organizations working to preserve cost effective housing, avoid eviction, and minimize household homelessness.

Renters: Find a Budget Friendly Unit

- Find budget friendly rental housing near you.
- Find HIV/AIDS housing and services near you.
- Find State Housing Finance Agencies with cost effective rental residential or commercial properties.
- Find subsidized systems in backwoods.
- Find cost effective systems in residential or commercial properties supported by tax credits.

Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities

- Find details about renter rights and duties.
- Find renter rights by state.
- View state laws concerning security deposits.
- View ten tips for renters.
- View the Move-In/Move-Out Inspection Form.

Homeowners

- Search for a HUD home to purchase on HUDhomestore.com.
- Get assistance with home enhancements.
- Find support to prevent foreclosure near you or call the Making Home Affordable hotline 888-995-4673.

Fair Housing

- File a housing discrimination problem.
- File a Housing Choice Voucher complaint by calling 1-800-955-2232 or sending out an email to Public Housing's Customer support at HUD-PIHRC@tngusa.net.

Food

- Find your local Food Bank.
- Obtain WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) Benefits.
- Look For SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Benefits.

Learn more about other offered food programs.

Health and wellness

- Locate an University Hospital near you, consisting of Healthcare for the Homeless Programs.
- Locate a Diaper Bank near you that disperses diapers to households in requirement.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hotline: 1-800-662-4357 for private, totally free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, information service, in English and Spanish, for individuals and family members facing psychological health and/or compound utilize conditions. This service supplies referrals to local treatment facilities, assistance groups, and community-based companies.
- Locate Behavioral Health Treatment Services near you, including compound abuse, mental health, and veteran services.
- Locate Early Serious Mental Illness Treatment near you, consisting of evidence-based programs supplying medication, treatment, household and peer assistance, and other support for those looking for treatment for a recent start of serious psychological health problem such as psychosis, schizophrenia, bi-polar condition, and other conditions.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 is available 24/7 to confidentially provide counseling services at a crisis center in your area.
- Locate HIV/AIDS care services near you.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 is available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anyone experiencing domestic violence, looking for resources or details, or questioning unhealthy aspects of their relationship.
Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 is offered 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anyone experiencing child abuse, looking for resources or details, and referrals to countless emergency situation, social service, and assistance resources.
RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656- 4673 is readily available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anybody experiencing sexual violence and in need of crisis support.
National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929 offers support to at-risk youth and their households 24 hours a day through phone, email, and live chat.
- Locate a Runaway and Homeless Youth Program near you for emergency shelter, transitional living program, or street outreach program for runaway or homeless youth.
National Human Trafficking Resource Center: 1-888-373-7888 is available 24/7 to confidentially provide help to victims of human trafficking.

Disasters

Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 provides crisis therapy and support to people experiencing emotional distress associated to natural or human-caused disasters.
- Visit a Catastrophe Recovery Center (DRC) to talk with someone in individual for assistance or details. To find a center near you, use the DRC Locator or text DRC and your zip code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: DRC 01234. (Standard text rates use.).
- Search for open shelters near you by texting SHELTER and your postal code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: Shelter 01234. (Standard text message rates apply.).
- Locate the nearest shelter or discover your local Red Cross.
- Find your closest health center, use the U.S. Hospital Finder.
- Obtain support on DisasterAssistance.gov.
- Search on FEMA.gov for updated information on Presidentially declared catastrophes and discover how to get assistance.
- Visit Ready.gov for detailed guidance on how to get ready for emergency situations and disasters.
- Visit Project Porchlight to access free monetary healing therapy and customized assistance 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 details for job seekers, workers, and companies on work and training.
Workforce Development Board Locator supplies local task centers where task seekers can get employment information, find out about profession advancement training chances and link to various programs in their location.
- The American Job Center Finder provides local task centers that help task seekers discover jobs, training, and address other work associated questions.
- DOL's Employment Training page provides a short-term training finder, an education and training finder, an Accreditation Finder, links to Apprenticeship programs, financial assistance, and a lot more.
Unemployment Benefits Finder provides information about declaring welfare by state.
Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 offers info about this education and training program that assists young people discover a profession, make a high school diploma or GED, and find and keep a good task.

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 in complete confidence with veterans in crisis (and their friends and families).
Veterans.gov offers job opportunity for veterans including job postings, regional profession centers, and online self-assessments.
- Locate a VA Medical Center for healthcare.
- Locate a Community Resource and Referral Center near you that offers Veterans who are homeless and at threat of homelessness with one-stop access to community-based, multiagency services to promote permanent housing, health and mental healthcare, profession advancement and access to VA and non-VA advantages.