Federal Homelessness Resource Guide

Introduction

Homelessness is not a problem that can be solved by one Federal agency. In fact, government alone cannot solve this serious problem, but Federal agencies do have resources that can help. Federal assistance varies and includes services to the homeless, direct cash payments to the homeless, and funding/grants for homeless programs and assistance.

The Region VI (TX, LA, OK, NM, AR) Federal Interagency Council on Homelessness is a group of Federal agencies that was formed to coordinate various homeless assistance programs and to provide individuals, municipalities, and organizations with information about what Federal resources are available to assist the homeless. To that end, this Federal Homeless Resource Guide was created by this council.

Federal programs are often complex and lengthy to explain, so our approach in creating this document was to provide a brief summary of what assistance each agency has that might assist the homeless and provide a contact name and number to get more details if needed. This approach kept the document relatively short and simple and hopefully, fairly easy to use. However, if you have any comments that you believe will help make this guide more useful, we would appreciate you emailing your comments to: