List of homelessness organizations

This is a list of notable organizations that provide services or work on issues related to homelessness.

A–B

• 100,000 Homes Campaign, a US program with the mission of placing 100,000 chronically homeless people in stable housing.
• Abahlali baseMjondolo, a popular, entirely non-professionalized and democratic mass movement of shack dwellers and other poor people in South Africa
• Acting for Life
• Ali Forney Center
• Anti-Poverty Committee, an organisation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, that campaigns against poverty and homelessness
• Back on My Feet, an American urban homeless outreach organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, centered on overcoming homelessness through running
• Barefoot Foundation
• Barnabus Manchester
• The Big Issue Foundation
• Bill Wilson Center
• The Booth Centre
• The Bowery Mission
• Breaking Ground
• Breaktime

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C–D

• Caretakers Cottage
• Carrfour Supportive Housing, established in 1993 to end homelessness in Miami, Florida
• Casa Alianza, a charity and NGO whose aims are the rehabilitation and the defence of street children in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua
• Catching Lives
• Catharsis (organization)
• Catholic Charities
• Centrepoint (charity)
• Church penitentiary
• Citizens for Public Justice
• Coalition on Homelessness, a homeless advocacy and social justice organization that focuses on creating long-term solutions to homelessness, poverty, and housing issues in San Francisco, California
• Coast Shelter
• Common Ground (Seattle)
• Community of Sant'Egidio
• Compass Family Services
• Covenant House
• Crisis (charity)
• Dans la Rue
• Detour House
• Dignity Village
• Dome Village
• Downtown Emergency Service Center

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E–F

• Emmaus (charity)
• Empowerment Plan
• Empty Homes Agency
• Family Promise
• FareStart
• FEANTSA, the only major European network that focuses exclusively on homelessness at European level and receives financial support from the European Commission for the implementation of its activities
• First Step Back Home
• Florence House
• Freight Train Riders of America
• Frontline Foundation

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G–I

• HabiJax
• Habitat for Humanity
• HomeAid
• HomeGround Services
• Homeless Workers' Movement, an urban social movement that fights for low-income housing rights in Brazil
• Homes for the Homeless
• Homes Not Jails
• HOPE Atlanta
• Horizon House
• Hospitality House
• Hotel de Gink
• Huckleberry House
• I Have A Name Project
• Interagency Council on Homelessness, a US federal program and office created by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1986
• International Brotherhood Welfare Association
• Invisible People, Invisible People is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working for homeless people in the United States.[1] The organization educates the public about homelessness through storytelling, educational resources, and advocacy.

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J–L

• Jesuit Volunteer Corps
• Joe Hill House
• Karluk Manor
• LAMP Community
• Lighthouse Wien

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M-N

• Mad Housers
• Manila Reception and Action Center
• Midnight Mission :P
• Milwaukee Normal School-Milwaukee Girls' Trade and Technical High School
• Mission Australia
• Mobilise
• Museum of Homelessness
• Najidah (Australia)
• National Alliance to End Homelessness, a nonprofit organization that promotes measures to end homelessness in the United States
• National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
• The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
• New York City Department of Homeless Services
• Notting Hill Housing Trust

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O–P

• Old Brewery Mission
• Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
• Operation Safety Net
• Outside In (organization)
• Ozone House
• Pacific Garden Mission
• Palladia (social services organization)
• The Passage (charity)
• Pathways to Housing, a not-for-profit organization whose goal is to provide housing for the mentally-challenged homeless of New York City
• Peachtree-Pine shelter
• Poor People's Alliance
• Poverello Center
• Project Compass
• Project HOME
• Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness

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Q–R

• Quarriers
• Raphael House
• Restaurants du Cœur
• Rosie's Place, a sanctuary for poor and homeless women located in Boston, Massachusetts
• Rough Sleepers Initiative
• Rowton Houses
• Ruth Ellis Center
• Revolutionary Housing League housing activist and direct action group in Ireland

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S

• Safe Horizon
• Saint Francis House, a daytime shelter for the homeless and poor in downtown Boston, Massachusetts
• Saint Joseph's House of Hospitality (Pittsburgh)
• Salvation Army
• SAMU Social, a municipal emergency service in several cities in France whose purpose is to provide care and medical aid to homeless people
• San Antonio Housing Authority
• Sanyukai, an NGO operating in the San'ya district in Tokyo, Japan which offers free services to the homeless
• The Scott Mission
• Seaton House
• Seattle Youth Garden Works
• Second Harvest Toronto
• Second Presbyterian Church (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
• Self-Master Colony
• Shelter (charity), a registered charity that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing in England and Scotland
• Shelterhouse
• The Shoebox Project for Shelters
• Single Homeless Project
• So Others Might Eat
• The Society for the Relief of the Homeless Poor
• Society of St James
• South Park Inn
• Southern Youth and Family Services
• St Mungo's (charity)
• St Patrick's Church, Hove
• St. Anthony Foundation
• St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
• StandUp for Kids
• Street Medicine Institute
• Street Outreach Program
• Streetlife (charity)
• Sheltersuit Foundation
• Sulzbacher Center
• Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF)

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T–U

• Take Back the Land
• Taldumande Youth Services
• TECHO
• Tent City 4
• Thames Reach
• Tipping Point Community
• Toronto House of Industry
• Transitional Living for Older Homeless Youth
• United States Interagency Council on Homelessness

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W–Z

• Veterans Aid
• Veterans Transition Center
• Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless
• Wayside Chapel
• Weingart Center for the Homeless
• Welsh Presbyterian Church (Columbus, Ohio)
• Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, a South African social movement struggling against evictions and other causes of homelessness
• Wild Goose Café
• Wintringham Specialist Aged Care
• Yfoundations
• Youth Off The Streets

See also

• List of tent cities in the United States