Media

Media Contact:
Michael Stoops
Director of Community Organizing
202-462-4822 x234
mstoops@nationalhomeless.org

Click here to read the latest news or see the below archived news articles and NCH reports on various issues surrounding homelessness:

Articles:

• 'Crimes of opportunity': 113 homeless attacked in 2010 in U.S., Orange County Register
• The Unfathomable Cuts in Housing Aid, The Nation
• Violence Against the Homeless: Is It Growing?, ABC News
• Homeless Numbers Dip, But More Families Suffer, NPR
• Florida among first states to make attacks on homeless hate crimes, Orlando Sentinel
• First Year Medical Students Meet Face-to-Face With Homeless, Georgetown University Medical Center
• "Foreclosures Force Ex-Homeowners to Turn to Shelters," New York Times
• "Debating Homeless Hate Crimes," NPR
• D.C., Baltimore lend helping hand to homeless, Washington Times
• K Street corridor: Where homeless, business meet, Washington Examiner
• Panhandling bans hurt some fundraisers, USA Today
• "HUD Chief Off to a Running Start," Street Sense (note: the author was an NCH intern in 1987)
• CNN Commentary: "Beating the homeless is cruel, not cool"
• "Attacks on Homeless Bring Push to Broaden Laws on Hate Crimes," New York Times

Reports:

• Hate Crimes Against the Homeless: Violence Hidden in Plain View (2010)
• A Place at the Table: Prohibitions on Sharing Food with People Experiencing Homelessness
• Tent Cities in America: Pacific Coast Report
• Winter Homeless Services: Bringing our Neighbors in from the Cold. Seven Hundred Killed from Hypothermia Annually in United States
• Foreclosure to Homelessness 2009: the Forgotten Victims of the Subprime Crisis
• Homes Not Handcuffs: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities, a new report by The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and The National Coalition for the Homeless, 2009
• Homeless Employment Report: Findings and Recommendations
• A new report on homeless deaths, "Dying Without Dignity."
• Report on "couch-homeless," precariously housed people.
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth: An Epidemic of Homelessness (2006) Developed in partnership with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

Hot topics:

• Hate Crimes
• Foreclosures
• Speakers' Bureau
• Basic facts about homelessness
• Criminalization
• Homeless Challenge
• National Homeless Persons Memorial Day
• Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week
• Universal Living Wage