Need Housing Assistance?
Are you homeless or at risk of homelessness?
Contact a company in your regional neighborhood who can assist.
Find Homeless Assistance
Local agencies provide a variety of services, including food, housing, health, and safety. Contact a nationwide hotline or find an organization near you. If you are experiencing a dangerous emergency, please dial 911.
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Housing Assistance
Contact a housing therapy agency in your area or call 800-569-4287.
Homeless Housing Help
- Contact a homeless provider in your neighborhood.
- Find regional neighborhood development and budget-friendly housing contacts.
- Search justshelter.org to discover community organizations working to preserve cost effective housing, prevent expulsion, and decrease household homelessness.
Renters: Find an Affordable Unit
- Find inexpensive rental housing near you. - Find HIV/AIDS housing and services near you.
- Find State Housing Finance Agencies with economical rental residential or commercial properties.
- Find subsidized units in rural locations.
- Find inexpensive systems in residential or supported by tax credits.
Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
- Find info about renter rights and responsibilities. - Find tenant rights by state.
- View state laws relating to security deposits.
- View ten pointers for tenants.
- View the Move-In/Move-Out Inspection Form.
Homeowners
- Look for a HUD home to purchase on HUDhomestore.com. - Get assistance with home improvements.
- Find assistance to avoid foreclosure near you or call the Making Home Affordable hotline 888-995-4673.
Fair Housing
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- File a housing discrimination grievance. - File a Housing Choice Voucher problem 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. - Request WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) Benefits.
- Make An Application For SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Benefits.
Discover more about other readily available food programs.
Health and Safety
- Locate an University Hospital near you, including Health Care for the Homeless Programs. - Locate a Diaper Bank near you that distributes diapers to families in need. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hotline: 1-800-662-4357 for personal, free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, info service, in English and Spanish, for people and relative dealing with mental health and/or substance use disorders. This service supplies recommendations to local treatment facilities, support system, and community-based companies.
- Locate Behavioral Health Treatment Services near you, consisting of compound abuse, mental health, and veteran services.
- Locate Early Serious Mental Illness Treatment near you, consisting of evidence-based programs offering medication, treatment, family and peer assistance, and other support for those looking for 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 offered 24/7 to confidentially supply 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 available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anybody 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 offered 24/7 to talk confidentially with anyone experiencing child abuse, seeking resources or info, and referrals to countless emergency situation, social service, and support resources. RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656- 4673 is available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anyone 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 hours 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 provide help to victims of human trafficking.
Disasters
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Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 supplies crisis counseling and support to people experiencing psychological distress associated to natural or human-caused catastrophes. - Visit a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) to talk with someone face to face for assistance 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 rates apply.).
- Look 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 closest shelter or find your local Red Cross.
- Find your closest medical facility, use the U.S. Hospital Finder.
- Get help on DisasterAssistance.gov.
- Search on FEMA.gov for up-to-date details on Presidentially stated disasters and learn how to get support.
- Visit Ready.gov for comprehensive assistance on how to prepare for emergency situations and disasters.
- Visit Project Porchlight to access free financial healing therapy and individualized assistance for disaster survivors under a foundation-assisted grant program, offered 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 supplies information for task applicants, employees, and companies on work and training. Workforce Development Board Locator provides local task centers where task hunters can get employment info, learn about career development training opportunities and link to numerous programs in their location. - The American Job Center Finder supplies local job centers that help task applicants discover tasks, training, and respond to other employment related concerns.
- DOL's Employment Training page supplies a short-term training finder, an education and training finder, an Accreditation Finder, links to Apprenticeship programs, financial help, and a lot more.
Unemployment Benefits Finder provides details about declaring welfare by state.
Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 provides info about this education and training program that helps youths find out a profession, make a high school diploma or GED, and discover and keep a great task.
Veterans
Help for Homeless Veterans Helpline: 1-877-424-3838 offers 24/7 access to VA's services for homeless and at-risk Veterans. Veteran's Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255 is readily available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with veterans in crisis (and their families and pals). Veterans.gov supplies job opportunity for veterans consisting of job posts, local career centers, and online self-assessments. - Locate a VA Medical Center for healthcare.
- Locate a Community Resource and Referral Center near you that supplies 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 advancement and access to VA and non-VA benefits.