Legislative Updates 
Ten Year Plan
The National Alliance to End Homelessness is leading a groundbreaking and ambitious campaign to engage all sectors of society in a revitalized effort to confront and overcome homelessness in America. The time has come for the nation to re-commit to ending homelessness rather than just managing it. This requires that we take more effective, pro-active steps toward achieving a solution. The Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness puts the solution back in the picture.
Executive Summary
A Snapshot of Homelessness
The Cost of Homelessness
Elements of a Plan to End Homelessness
Planning for Outcomes
Closing the Front Door
Opening the Back Door
Building Infrastructure
State and Local Ten Year Plans to End Homelessness
Explainer: What is a Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness?
In 2000, the National Alliance to End Homelessness released A Plan, Not a Dream: How to End Homelessness in Ten Years. Drawing on research and innovative programs from around the country, the plan outlined key strategies in addressing the issue locally, which cumulatively can address the issue nationally. Since the release of this blueprint, over 300 communities have undertaken efforts to end homelessness and over 180 communities have completed plans to end homelessness.
A New Vision: What is in Community Plans to End Homelessness?
A New Vision: What is in Community Plans to End Homelessness? examines the content of Ten Year Plans to End Homelessness from across the country. This study reveals that 90 communities have completed plans that dramatically transform their homeless assistance systems. The study also shows that communities must set clear numeric goals, timetables, and identify funding and implementing bodies to ensure they move from planning to action. In each of the plans, communities outline a wide range of strategies, including: creating data systems; preventing homelessness — both emergency prevention and prevention at the systems level; outreach to homeless people to get them back into housing; shortening the time that people spend homeless by using rapid re-housing strategies; creating permanent housing options for homeless people; and, once homeless people become housed, linking them to services and to programs that will help them boost their income and increase their ability to afford housing in the future. The report then goes on to analyze the strength of the plans by calculating a score for each strategy based on the likelihood that it would be implemented.
Ten Essentials Toolkit
This Toolkit provides communities with the resources they need to develop plans to end homelessness.
A Plan, Not a Dream: How to End Homelessness in Ten Years
The Alliance's Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness calls on America to change its thinking and pursue steps that seek not just to manage but to permanently end the problem within ten years. Composed of four main components, the plan zeros in on the gaps in existing programs and identifies the practical steps necessary to prevent and end homelessness effectively.
This video highlights how communities across the country are decreasing homelessness among families. Thanks to the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, it’s yours to use for free. 
