Are you homeless or at threat of homelessness?

Contact an organization in your regional neighborhood who can help.

Find Homeless Assistance

Local firms provide a range of services, consisting of food, housing, health, and security. Contact a nationwide hotline or find a company near you. If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency situation, please dial 911.

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Housing Assistance

Contact a housing counseling company in your location or call 800-569-4287.

Homeless Housing Help

- Contact a homeless service supplier in your community.
- Find regional community development and affordable housing contacts.
- Search justshelter.org to find neighborhood organizations working to preserve budget-friendly housing, prevent expulsion, and reduce family homelessness.

Renters: Find a Budget-friendly Unit

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

Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities

- Find information about occupant rights and duties.
- Find tenant rights by state.
- View state laws concerning down payment.
- View ten suggestions for tenants.
- View the Move-In/Move-Out Inspection Form.

Homeowners

- Look for a HUD home to acquire on HUDhomestore.com.
- Get support with home improvements.
- Find help to prevent foreclosure near you or call the Making Home Affordable hotline 888-995-4673.

Fair Housing

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

Food

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

Discover more about other readily available food programs.

Health and Safety

- Locate a Health Center near you, including Health Care for the Homeless Programs.
- Locate a Diaper Bank near you that distributes diapers to households in requirement.
Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hotline: 1-800-662-4357 for personal, totally free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, information service, in English and Spanish, for people and member of the family dealing with mental health and/or substance use disorders. This service offers recommendations to local treatment centers, support groups, and community-based organizations.
- Locate Behavioral Health Treatment Services near you, including drug abuse, psychological health, and veteran services.
- Locate Early Serious Mental Disorder Treatment near you, consisting of evidence-based programs supplying medication, therapy, household and peer assistance, and other support for those looking for treatment for a recent beginning of serious mental disorder such as psychosis, schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, and other conditions.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 is offered 24/7 to confidentially offer 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 readily available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anyone experiencing domestic violence, looking for resources or information, or questioning unhealthy aspects of their relationship.
Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 is readily available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anyone experiencing kid abuse, looking for resources or details, and referrals to thousands of emergency, social service, and support resources.
RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656- 4673 is available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anybody experiencing sexual violence and in requirement of crisis support.
National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929 offers support to at-risk youth and their families 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 offered 24/7 to in complete confidence supply aid to victims of human trafficking.

Disasters

Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 offers crisis therapy and assistance to individuals experiencing psychological distress associated to natural or human-caused catastrophes.
- Visit a Catastrophe Recovery Center (DRC) to talk with somebody face to face for assistance or info. 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.).
- Look for open shelters near you by texting SHELTER and your zip code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: Shelter 01234. (Standard text rates apply.).
- Locate the nearest shelter or find your local Red Cross.
- Find your closest hospital, use the U.S. Hospital Finder.
- Request support on DisasterAssistance.gov.
- Search on FEMA.gov for updated info on Presidentially declared catastrophes and find out how to get assistance.
- Visit Ready.gov for detailed assistance on how to get ready for emergencies and disasters.
- Visit Project Porchlight to access free monetary healing therapy and customized support for disaster survivors under a foundation-assisted grant program, used by Finance International (MMI), a HUD-Approved Housing Counseling firm.

Employment and Job Training

- DOL's Employment and Training Helpline: 1-877-872-5627 offers info for task applicants, employees, and employers on work and training.
Workforce Development Board Locator provides local task centers where job hunters can get work information, find out about profession development training chances and connect to numerous programs in their area.
- The American Job Center Finder supplies regional job centers that help job candidates find tasks, training, and answer other work associated questions.
- DOL's Employment Training page provides a short-term training finder, an education and training finder, a Certification Finder, links to Apprenticeship programs, monetary aid, and a lot more.
Welfare Finder offers info about declaring welfare by state.
Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 provides info about this education and training program that helps young individuals learn a profession, earn a high school diploma or GED, and discover and keep a great 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 supplies job opportunity for veterans including job posts, local career centers, and online self-assessments.
- Locate a VA Medical Center for medical care.
- Locate a Community Resource and Referral Center near you that offers Veterans who are homeless and at risk of homelessness with one-stop access to community-based, multiagency services to promote permanent housing, health and psychological healthcare, career development and access to VA and non-VA benefits.