Best of the Web > History & Social Sciences > Sociology > Persons Without Homes

Persons Without Homes

Links

  • City Harvest
    City Harvest is a non-profit organization committed to feeding hungry people in New York City using a variety of innovative, practical, and cost-effective methods.

  • Coalition for the Homeless
    The Coalition for the Homeless, the nation's oldest and most progressive organization, helps homeless men, women and children by providing immediate and critical relief.

  • Homelessness-HUD
    This site provides research, fact sheets, and links to government and private organizations.

  • IHomeless People's Network Discussion List
    An e-mail discussion list spanning three continents and a range of worldviews and backgrounds. While some posts are personal, most focus on news, views and solutions to homelessness.

  • National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
    The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans serves as a liaison between the federal government and community-based veterans' service providers. This site includes information and resources for and about homeless veterans.

  • National Coalition for the Homeless
    NCH uses grassroots organizing, public education, policy advocacy, technical assistance, and partnerships to help end homelessness and achieve housing, economic, and healthcare justice for all.

  • National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
    Established in 1989, NLCHP works, through impact litigation, policy advocacy, and public education, to alleviate, ameliorate, and end homelessness, serving as the legal arm of the nationwide movement to end homelessness.

  • New York City Coalition Against Hunger
    The New York City Coalition Against Hunger represents the more than 1,000 non-profit soup kitchens and food pantries in NYC.

  • NYC Department of Homeless Services
    This New York City agency provides information about temporary emergency shelter, in partnership with public and private agencies.

  • Partnership for the Homeless
    Partnership for the Homeless is described as the nation's largest network of private shelters. This site provides information for donors and volunteer workers.

  • Project Renewal
    Project Renewal provides information on programs that care for and rehabilitate homeless men and women in N.Y.C.




Compiled by: S. Speller, History and Social Sciences Department, Mid-Manhattan Library
Last revised: 4/26/06