Housing and Homelessness

Homelessness in America cuts across age, gender, and place. Approximately 578,000 individuals were homeless on a single night in January of 2014; nearly 50,000 veterans are homeless; and 2.5 million children and their families are homeless each year, according to a 2014 AIR report. Common contributors to homelessness include poverty, lack of affordable housing and employment opportunities, domestic violence, and health and mental health issues, including the effects of trauma.
 

Our Work

AIR’s National Center on Family Homelessness leads the field in addressing these factors. We bring our expertise in research and evaluation, training and technical assistance, systems integration, and trauma-informed care to find solutions to improve peoples’ lives and end homelessness. On behalf of federal clients such as the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Education, and Justice, AIR assists communities to use data-driven strategies, cross-system collaboration, and mobile technology to respond to the many factors placing people at risk.

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Barbara Broman

Barbara Broman

Managing Director
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Related Work

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Preventing Homelessness in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Youth

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America's Youngest Outcasts: A Report Card on Child Homelessness

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Supporting Federal Efforts to End Homelessness

Hundreds of thousands of families and more than one million children are homeless in America each year, and the numbers are increasing. Female-headed families, veterans, and LGBT youth are among those most at risk, often due to extreme trauma that precedes and is made worse by homelessness. The U.S. Department of ...

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While there are well-established links in the literature on domestic violence and homelessness, integration of the two systems in policy and practice is still emerging. This toolkit was created to address the gap between domestic violence and homeless service systems.

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