The City of New Bedford has released a landmark report detailing the City's response to homelessness and identifying key areas for improvement. At the suggestion of service providers, the Mitchell Administration allocated American Recovery Plan Act (ARPA) funds to commission the report, conducted by the Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC), a leading expert nationally in human services, health care, and homelessness. The report provides a data-driven analysis of homelessness which was developed through extensive data collection, community [ Continue reading. ]
Publications
RACIAL EQUITY PLAN NOW AVAILABLE!
Racial Equity Assessment & Action Plan The HSPN used CoC Planning funds from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development to develop a Racial Equity Assessment and Action Plan in late 2023 and completed this effort in early 2024. This work was undertaken by the nationally-recognized Racial Equity Partners (REP) with the support of the HSPN Racial Equity Workgroup. The HSPN is grateful to the REP and Workgroup for developing such a meaningful document and will now begin the work articulated in the Action Plan section of the [ Continue reading. ]
HSPN Publishes Summary of 2023 HUD AHAR
The 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) Part 1 provides a Point In Time (PIT) and Housing Inventory Count (HIC) Estimates of Homelessness in the United States. The 2023 data was released December 18, 2023. The 2023 AHAR outlines key findings of the PIT Count and HIC conducted in January 2023. The report, itself, “provides national, state and CoC level PIT and HIC estimates of homelessness as well as estimates of chronically homeless persons, homeless veterans and homeless children and youth.” Key findings are available here: AHAR 2023 HSPN [ Continue reading. ]
RESOURCES & TRAINING on LGBTQI+ NOW AVAILABLE!
The HSPN has produced and distributed a flyer highlighting training and resource opportunities around the Intersection of Homelessness and LGBTQI+. You may access the LGBTQ+ HOMELESS TRAINING RESOURCE FLYER which provides multiple links to HUD Exchange resources addressing LGBTQI+ and its intersection with homelessness. Resources include Equal Access relative to Gender Identity, Equal Access to Housing in HUD programs regardless of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity and Equal Access regardless of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity or Marital Status [ Continue reading. ]
2023 Data is Now Available!
The City of New Bedford has completed its annual “Point In Time” (PIT) count creating a census of those individuals and families experiencing homelessness within the city, both sheltered (living in emergency or transitional housing) and unsheltered (on the streets/in places not meant for human habitation). Concurrent with that has been the development of the city’s “Housing Inventory Count” (HIC) that provides an inventory of specific emergency, transitional and permanent housing opportunities for those experiencing homelessness in New Bedford. As has [ Continue reading. ]
2023 STREETSHEETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE
The City of New Bedford's Office of Housing & Community Development has released the 2023 StreetSheet. Go to the HSPN Resource Page to access a copy of the sheet in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Hard copies of the StreetSheets are also available upon request by contacting Jennifer.Clarke@newbedford-ma.gov. (Copies are available while quantities last). [ Continue reading. ]
2022 Data is Now Available
The City of New Bedford has completed its annual “Point In Time” (PIT) count creating a census of those individuals and families experiencing homelessness within the city, both sheltered (living in emergency or transitional housing) and unsheltered (on the streets/in places not meant for human habitation). Concurrent with that has been the development of the city’s “Housing Inventory Count” (HIC) that provides an inventory of specific emergency, transitional and permanent housing opportunities for those experiencing homelessness in New Bedford. As was [ Continue reading. ]
EARLY UNSHELTERED STATS for 2022
Although typically a complete Point In Time (PIT) Count and Housing Inventory Chart (HIC) is presented on this website, in advance of that publication this year, an early snapshot of the unsheltered statistics collected in February 2022 has been published in a brief PowerPoint. Check out the early numbers from the street count here: UNSHELTERED PIT 2022 A complete 2022 PIT and HIC analysis will be published during the spring of 2022. [ Continue reading. ]
2022 HOMELESSNESS INFOGRAPHIC
Interested in a quick snapshot about the New Bedford Continuum of Care? Check out this infographic that highlights some information, current as of 2022: 2022 HOMELESSNESS INFOGRAPHIC [ Continue reading. ]
2023 STREETSHEET IS AVAILABLE!
The City of New Bedford's Office of Housing & Community Development has released the 2023 StreetSheet. Go to the HSPN Resource Page to access a copy of the sheet in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Hard copies of the StreetSheets are also available upon request by contacting Jennifer.Clarke@newbedford-ma.gov. (Copies are available while quantities last). [ Continue reading. ]
