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Are you homeless or at danger of homelessness?

Contact a company in your regional community who can assist.

Find Homeless Assistance

Local agencies provide a variety of services, including food, housing, health, and safety. Contact a nationwide hotline or locate an organization near you. If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency situation, please dial 911.

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Housing Assistance

Contact a housing therapy company in your location or call 800-569-4287.

Homeless Housing Help

- Contact a homeless company in your neighborhood.

• Find local neighborhood advancement and budget-friendly housing contacts.
• Search justshelter.org to find community companies working to protect economical housing, avoid eviction, and lower family homelessness.
  
  Renters: Find a Budget Friendly Unit
  
  - Find inexpensive 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 units in rural areas.
• Find inexpensive units in residential or commercial properties supported by tax credits.
  
  Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
  
  - Find info about tenant rights and obligations.
• 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
  
  - Look for a HUD home to purchase on HUDhomestore.com.
• Get help with home enhancements.
• Find assistance 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 e-mail to Public Housing's Customer Service at HUD-PIHRC@tngusa.net.
  
  Food
  
  - Find your Bank.
• Look For WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) Benefits.
• Look For SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Benefits.
  
  Discover more about other readily 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 disperses diapers to households in requirement. Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hotline: 1-800-662-4357 for confidential, totally free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, info service, in English and Spanish, for individuals and relative facing mental health and/or compound use disorders. This service offers recommendations to local treatment centers, assistance groups, and community-based companies.
• Locate Behavioral Health Treatment Services near you, consisting of substance abuse, psychological health, and veteran services.
• Locate Early Serious Mental Illness Treatment near you, consisting of evidence-based programs providing medication, therapy, family and peer assistance, and other support for those seeking treatment for a current start of serious mental disorder 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 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 readily available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anyone experiencing domestic violence, seeking resources or information, or questioning unhealthy elements of their relationship. Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 is available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anybody experiencing kid abuse, looking for resources or info, and recommendations to thousands of 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 requirement of crisis assistance. National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929 provides support 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 supply assistance to victims of human trafficking.
  
  Disasters
  
  Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 offers crisis therapy and support to people experiencing psychological distress related to natural or human-caused disasters.
• Visit a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) to talk with somebody face to face for assistance or info. To discover a center near you, utilize the DRC Locator or text DRC and your zip code 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 nearest shelter or find your local Red Cross.
• Find your closest health center, use the U.S. Hospital Finder.
• Look for support on DisasterAssistance.gov.
• Search on FEMA.gov for updated information on Presidentially declared disasters and find out how to get support.
• Visit Ready.gov for thorough assistance on how to get ready for emergency situations and catastrophes.
• Visit Project Porchlight to access free monetary recovery therapy and individualized assistance for catastrophe survivors under a foundation-assisted grant program, provided by Finance International (MMI), a HUD-Approved Housing Counseling company.
  
  Employment and Job Training
  
  - DOL's Employment and Training Helpline: 1-877-872-5627 supplies details for task candidates, employees, and employers on work and training. Workforce Development Board Locator provides local task centers where job applicants can get work info, learn about career development training opportunities and connect to different programs in their location.
• The American Job Center Finder offers local task centers that assist task seekers find jobs, training, and answer other employment related 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 much more. Welfare Finder provides information about declaring unemployment advantages by state. Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 offers info about this education and training program that assists young individuals find out a profession, earn a high school diploma or GED, and find and keep a great job.
  
  Veterans
  
  Help for Homeless Veterans Helpline: 1-877-424-3838 supplies 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 confidentially with veterans in crisis (and their friends and families). Veterans.gov supplies job opportunity for veterans consisting of job posts, regional profession centers, and online self-assessments.
• Locate a VA Medical Center for medical care.
• Locate a Neighborhood Resource and Referral Center near you that provides Veterans who are homeless and at danger of homelessness with one-stop access to community-based, multiagency services to promote irreversible housing, health and psychological healthcare, profession development and access to VA and non-VA benefits.