Need Housing Assistance?
Are you homeless or at threat of homelessness?
Contact a company in your regional community who can assist.
Find Homeless Assistance
Local firms supply a series of services, including food, housing, health, and security. Contact a national hotline or locate a company near you. If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency, please dial 911.
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Housing Assistance
Contact a housing therapy agency in your location or call 800-569-4287.
Homeless Housing Help
- Contact a homeless company in your community.
- Find regional community development and affordable housing contacts.
- Search justshelter.org to find neighborhood companies working to preserve cost effective housing, avoid eviction, and minimize 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 systems in rural locations.
- Find budget friendly systems in residential or commercial properties supported by tax credits.
Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
- Find information about renter rights and duties. - Find occupant rights by state.
- View state laws concerning down payment.
- View 10 suggestions for tenants.
- View the Move-In/Move-Out Inspection Form.
Homeowners
- Search for a HUD home to purchase on HUDhomestore.com. - Get assistance with home improvements.
- Find support to prevent 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 out an email to Public Housing's Customer support at HUD-PIHRC@tngusa.net.
Food
- Find your regional Food Bank. - Get WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) Benefits.
- Get SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Benefits.
Learn more about other available food programs.
Health and wellness
- Locate a Health Center near you, including Healthcare for the Homeless Programs. - Locate a Diaper Bank near you that distributes diapers to households in need. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hotline: 1-800-662-4357 for confidential, totally free, 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 conditions. This service provides referrals to regional treatment facilities, support system, and community-based organizations.
- Locate Behavioral Health Treatment Services near you, consisting of compound abuse, mental health, and veteran services.
- Locate Early Serious Mental Disorder Treatment near you, including evidence-based programs offering medication, treatment, family and peer support, and other help for those looking for treatment for a current start of major psychological health problem 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 offered 24/7 to talk confidentially with anybody experiencing domestic violence, seeking resources or info, 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 kid abuse, looking for resources or info, and referrals to countless emergency, social service, and support resources. RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656- 4673 is readily available 24/7 to talk confidentially 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 families 24 hr 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 supply help to victims of human trafficking.
Disasters
Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 offers crisis therapy and assistance to people experiencing emotional distress related to natural or human-caused catastrophes. - Visit a Catastrophe Recovery Center (DRC) to talk with somebody personally for assistance or info. To find a center near you, use the DRC Locator or text DRC and your 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 closest shelter or find your regional Red Cross.
- Find your closest medical facility, utilize the U.S. Hospital Finder.
- Look for assistance on DisasterAssistance.gov.
- Search on FEMA.gov for current details on Presidentially stated disasters and discover how to get assistance.
- Visit Ready.gov for detailed assistance on how to prepare for emergency situations and disasters.
- Visit Project Porchlight to access complimentary financial recovery counseling and customized help for disaster survivors under a foundation-assisted grant program, used by Money Management International (MMI), a HUD-Approved Housing Counseling firm.
Employment and Job Training
- DOL's Employment and Training Helpline: 1-877-872-5627 offers information for job hunters, workers, and employers on work and training. Workforce Development Board Locator provides local task centers where task hunters can get employment details, learn about profession advancement training chances and connect to different programs in their location. - The American Job Center Finder offers local task centers that assist job seekers discover tasks, training, and answer other employment associated questions.
- DOL's Employment Training page supplies a short-term training finder, an education and training finder, a Certification Finder, links to Apprenticeship programs, financial help, and a lot more.
Unemployment Benefits Finder offers information about applying for joblessness advantages by state.
Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 provides details about this education and training program that helps youths find out a career, earn a high school diploma or GED, and find and keep an excellent task.
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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 households and buddies). Veterans.gov offers job opportunity for veterans consisting of 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 psychological healthcare, profession development and access to VA and non-VA advantages.