• Community Impact | 01/05/2024 - $1.6M in grants announced for 3 Houston homelessness nonprofits

“Officials with the Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County, a nonprofit that coordinates groups in the mission to end homelessness in Houston, announced Dec. 19 they will provide $1.6 million in grant funding to three partner nonprofits.”

Read more on Community Impact.

• Marketplace | 01/08/2024 - Houston has bucked the trend in homelessness. Can it afford to keep it up?

“Homelessness continues to weigh on American cities. The government’s annual homeless count reached a record high in 2023, per a recent analysis by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

“Houston is among the few major cities that bucked that trend in the last decade.”

Read the full article on Marketplace.

• CW39 | 01/10/2024 - Resources to keep the homeless warm ahead of freezing temperatures

“CW39 Houston's Kara Willis interviews the Coalition for the Homeless on how non-profits are working to keep the homeless safe and warm amid freezing temperatures.”

Watch the full segment on CW39.

• The Texas Tribune | 01/11/2024 - Homelessness in Texas on the rise amid high housing costs, federal estimates show

“The number of Texans experiencing homelessness is back at pre-pandemic levels, federal data shows.

“Homelessness in Texas grew by more than 12% in 2023, in line with national trends, according to estimates released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last month. More than 27,000 Texans did not have a permanent roof over their heads when advocates and volunteers across the country walked Texas streets on a night last January to conduct the Point-in-Time Count annual estimate of people experiencing homelessness. About 43% of those — or some 11,700 people — lived on the streets.”

Read the full piece on The Texas Tribune.

• CW39 | 01/23/2024 - Rain delays, but doesn’t stop annual count of Houston area’s homeless

“The Houston Coalition for the Homeless was able to count the number of people staying in shelters Monday night, but rainy weather has them pushing their count of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness back one day.”

Read the full article on CW39.

• Axios | 01/24/2024 – Counting Houston's unhoused population

“The annual homelessness count is happening this week in Houston and throughout Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties.

“The Point-in-Time Homeless Count & Survey provides updated data about unhoused folks in Houston and will gauge how the city is doing in providing sustainable shelters, Ana Rausch, one of the organizers, tells Axios.”

Read the full article on Axios.

• KHOU11 | 01/26/2024 - Coalition for the Homeless of Houston and Harris County conducting annual county and survey

Watch the full segment on KHOU11.

• CTV News Edmonton | 01/29/2024 - Potential lessons for Edmonton in Houston's success in reducing homeless population by 61%

“The Houston region has had immense success with Housing First, bringing its homeless population down 61 per cent in 12 years.

“‘It's really about coordinating the access to housing. That's really the key,’ said Kelly Young, president and CEO of Coalition for the Homeless.

“In January of last year, the agency recorded 3,270 homeless people in the Houston area.”

Watch the full segment on CTV News Edmonton.