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Are you homeless or at threat of homelessness?

Contact a company in your regional neighborhood who can assist.

Find Homeless Assistance

Local companies offer a variety of services, including food, housing, health, and security. Contact a nationwide hotline or locate a company near you. If you are experiencing a lethal 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 advancement and inexpensive housing contacts.
• Search justshelter.org to find community companies working to protect affordable housing, avoid eviction, and lower family homelessness.
  
  Renters: Find an Economical Unit
  
  - Find budget friendly rental housing near you.
• Find HIV/AIDS housing and services near you.
• Find State Housing Finance Agencies with affordable rental residential or commercial properties.
• Find subsidized systems in backwoods.
• Find affordable systems in residential or commercial properties supported by tax credits.
  
  Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
  
  - Find info about renter rights and obligations.
• Find occupant rights by state.
• View state laws concerning down payment.
• View ten tips for occupants.
• View the Move-In/Move-Out Inspection Form.
  
  Homeowners
  
  - Search for a HUD home to buy on HUDhomestore.com.
• Get support 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 problem.
• File a Housing Choice Voucher grievance by calling 1-800-955-2232 or sending an email to Public Housing's Customer support at HUD-PIHRC@tngusa.net.
  
  Food
  
  - Find your regional Food Bank.
• Look For WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) Benefits.
• Obtain SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Benefits.
  
  Learn more about other offered food programs.
  
  Health and wellness
  
  - Locate a Health Center near you, consisting of Health Care for the Homeless Programs.
• Locate a Diaper Bank near you that distributes diapers to households in requirement. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hotline: 1-800-662-4357 for personal, free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, details service, in English and Spanish, for people and relative facing mental health and/or substance use conditions. This service supplies referrals to local 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 Disorder Treatment near you, consisting of evidence-based programs offering medication, treatment, family and peer assistance, and other help for those seeking treatment for a current onset of major psychological illness such as psychosis, schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, and other conditions. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 is readily available 24/7 to confidentially provide therapy 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 in complete confidence with anyone experiencing domestic violence, looking for resources or info, or questioning unhealthy elements of their relationship. Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 is readily available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anybody experiencing kid abuse, looking for resources or info, and recommendations to countless emergency situation, social service, and assistance resources. RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656- 4673 is offered 24/7 to talk confidentially with anybody experiencing sexual violence and in need of crisis assistance. National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929 provides assistance to at-risk youth and their households 24 hr a day through phone, e-mail, 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 readily available 24/7 to confidentially offer aid to victims of human trafficking.
  
  Disasters
  
  Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 provides crisis counseling and assistance to individuals experiencing psychological distress associated to natural or human-caused disasters.
• Visit a Catastrophe Recovery Center (DRC) to talk with somebody face to face for guidance or details. To find a center near you, use the DRC Locator or text DRC and your postal code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: DRC 01234. (Standard text message rates apply.).
• Search for open shelters near you by texting SHELTER and your zip code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: Shelter 01234. (Standard text message rates use.).
• Locate the nearest shelter or find your regional Red Cross.
• Find your closest hospital, use the U.S. Hospital Finder.
• Request support on DisasterAssistance.gov.
• Search on FEMA.gov for updated details on Presidentially stated disasters and discover how to get help.
• Visit Ready.gov for detailed assistance on how to prepare for emergency situations and catastrophes.
• Visit Project Porchlight to access free financial healing counseling and personalized support for catastrophe 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 details for task hunters, workers, and companies on employment and training. Workforce Development Board Locator offers local task centers where task candidates can get employment details, learn about career development training chances and connect to various programs in their area.
• The American Job Center Finder supplies local task centers that assist task candidates discover tasks, training, and respond to other employment associated questions.
• DOL's Employment Training page offers a short-term training finder, an education and training finder, an Accreditation Finder, links to Apprenticeship programs, financial assistance, and far more. Welfare Finder provides information about declaring welfare by state. Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 supplies info about this education and training program that assists young people discover a career, 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 available 24/7 to talk confidentially with veterans in crisis (and their households and buddies). Veterans.gov provides work opportunities for veterans including task postings, local profession centers, and online self-assessments.
• Locate a VA Medical Center for treatment.
• Locate a Community Resource and Referral Center near you that provides Veterans who are 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 benefits.
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