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Civics: Action Project

Databases

Keywords to consider:

  • unhoused
  • "homeless shelters"
  • "housing insecurity"
  • "affordable housing"
  • "homelessness prevention"
  • "chronically homeless"
  • "homeless families"
  • "homeless children"
  • poverty
  • eviction

Use quotation marks to limit results to exact phrases.  You can also add in geographic keywords like "Alexandria, VA," or  "Northern Virginia," or "Washington, DC," but be aware that doing so may limit your search too much.

March Library databases to search:

Local Media

Alexandria/Arlington:

Washington, DC:

Organizations

  • Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority
    "(ARHA or the “Authority”) is a public agency established under the Housing Authority Law, Chapter 1, Title 36 of the Code of Virginia of 1938. It’s primary mission is to provide sanitary and safe dwelling accommodations to persons of low income at rents they can afford.."
  • City of Alexandria Housing and Homeless Services Hub
  • "With support from partner organizations, the City provides housing and homeless services, including eviction and foreclosure prevention resources; landlord tenant mediation services; and information on shelters, affordable homeownership and rental housing, senior housing + care options, and accessibility and home repair programs."
  • The Community Foundation Partnership to End Homelessness (Washington, DC)
    The Partnership to End Homelessness brings together local government, nonprofit service providers, advocates, philanthropy, business leaders, and individuals to ensure everyone has housing they can afford and supportive services they need to stabilize."
  • Community Lodgings (Alexandria)
    "For the past 30 years, Community Lodgings has helped homeless and low-income families by providing a variety of affordable and transitional housing options. In addition we offer Youth Education programs and Community Outreach."
  • Community Solutions
    Community Solutions works to create a lasting end to homelessness that leaves no one behind.  We envision a more equitable society where homelessness is never inevitable, inescapable, or a way of life.
  • Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments: Housing & Homelessness
    The Council of Governements shares housing data, best practices, and tools to help encourage the production and preservation of housing affordable to low and moderate-income residents who may not be well-served by the existing housing market. 
  • National Low Income Housing Coalition
    The National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated to achieving racially and socially equitable public policy that ensures people with the lowest incomes have quality homes that are accessible and affordable in communities of their choice.
  • National Alliance to End Homelessness
    "The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a non-partisan organization dedicated to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. We help build stronger and more resilient communities by advancing equitable, socially just, and evidence-based strategies and policies that are critical to ending homelessness."
  • Virginia Housing Alliance
    "Advocating for the expansion of housing opportunities and ending homelessness in Virginia"