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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. 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

References

1. White House statement on the ICH

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People	Aged people Cyber-homeless Families McRefugee Mole people Street people Street children Social orphan Vagrants Bergie Tramps Hobos Youth
Issues	Anti-homelessness legislation Bill of Rights Bumvertising Discrimination Mental health Patient dumping Popular culture Spirituality Vulnerability Index Pets Survival sex Social cleansing Slum clearance
Responses	Soup kitchen Hygiene program Homeless ministry Homelessness services List Street newspaper List Shelters Homeless shelter Cooling center Drop-in center Four penny coffin Penny sit-up Warming center Women's shelter Homeless Friendly Precincts Housing Foyers Housing First Rapid Re-Housing Right to housing Single-room occupancy (SRO) Squatting Tent city Transitional housing Awareness Homelessness Action Week Homeless Persons' Week Homeless World Cup International Year of Shelter for the Homeless Street Child World Cup Youth Homelessness Matters Day
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