Are you homeless or at risk of homelessness?

Contact an organization in your regional community who can help.

Find Homeless Assistance

Local firms supply a variety of services, including food, housing, health, and security. Contact a nationwide hotline or find an organization near you. If you are experiencing a lethal emergency situation, please dial 911.

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Housing Assistance

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

Homeless Housing Help

- Contact a homeless service provider in your neighborhood.
- Find regional community development and affordable housing contacts.
- Search justshelter.org to find community organizations working to preserve affordable housing, avoid eviction, and decrease family homelessness.

Renters: Find a Budget-friendly Unit

- Find affordable rental housing near you.
- Find HIV/AIDS housing and services near you.
- Find State Housing Finance Agencies with inexpensive rental residential or commercial properties.
- Find subsidized systems in rural areas.
- Find economical systems in residential or commercial properties supported by tax credits.

Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities

- Find info about tenant rights and responsibilities.
- Find occupant rights by state.
- View state laws concerning security deposits.
- View 10 tips for renters.
- View the Move-In/Move-Out Inspection Form.

Homeowners

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

Fair Housing

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

Food

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

Discover more about other available food programs.

Health and Safety

- Locate an University Hospital near you, consisting of Health Care for the Homeless Programs.
- Locate a Diaper Bank near you that distributes diapers to families in requirement.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hotline: 1-800-662-4357 for personal, complimentary, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, information service, in English and Spanish, for individuals and member of the family facing mental health and/or substance use disorders. This service provides referrals to regional treatment centers, support system, and community-based organizations.
- Locate Behavioral Health Treatment Services near you, consisting of drug abuse, mental health, and veteran services.
- Locate Early Serious Mental Illness Treatment near you, consisting of evidence-based programs offering medication, therapy, family and peer support, and other support for those seeking treatment for a current start of major psychological illness such as psychosis, schizophrenia, bi-polar condition, and other conditions.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 is readily available 24/7 to in complete confidence offer counseling services at a crisis center in your location.
- Locate HIV/AIDS care services near you.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 is readily available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anybody experiencing domestic violence, seeking resources or information, 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 anybody experiencing kid abuse, looking for resources or details, and recommendations to thousands of emergency, social service, and assistance resources.
RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656- 4673 is available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anyone experiencing sexual violence and in need of crisis assistance.
National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929 offers support to at-risk youth and their households 24 hr a day through phone, email, and live chat.
- Locate a Runaway and Homeless Youth Program near you for emergency situation 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 aid 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 somebody personally for guidance or information. 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 message rates apply.).
- Look for open shelters near you by texting SHELTER and your zip code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: Shelter 01234. (Standard text rates use.).
- Locate the nearby shelter or discover your local Red Cross.
- Find your closest health center, use the U.S. Hospital Finder.
- Request support on DisasterAssistance.gov.
- Search on FEMA.gov for updated details on Presidentially stated disasters and learn how to get assistance.
- Visit Ready.gov for detailed assistance on how to prepare for emergencies and disasters.
- Visit Project Porchlight to access complimentary monetary healing counseling and personalized help for catastrophe survivors under a foundation-assisted grant program, used by Finance International (MMI), a HUD-Approved Housing Counseling company.

Employment and Job Training

- DOL's Employment and Training Helpline: 1-877-872-5627 offers details for task applicants, employees, and companies on employment and training.
Workforce Development Board Locator offers local job centers where task hunters can get employment information, discover career development training chances and connect to different programs in their location.
- The American Job Center Finder offers regional task centers that assist job applicants find tasks, training, and answer other employment associated concerns.
- 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 supplies information about declaring unemployment benefits by state.
Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 offers details about this education and training program that helps young people find out a career, earn a high school diploma or GED, and discover 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 available 24/7 to talk confidentially with veterans in crisis (and their friends and families).
Veterans.gov offers job opportunity for veterans including job postings, 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 threat of homelessness with one-stop access to community-based, multiagency services to promote irreversible housing, health and psychological health care, profession advancement and access to VA and non-VA advantages.