Family homelessness
Family Homelessness
The focus on chronic homelessness continues to make it more difficult to address family homelessness. In our state, we have very few shelter beds for homeless families and families will do everything they can to avoid sleeping on the streets. Therefore, very few families meet HUD’s definition of chronic homelessness. There needs to be a better balance of resources to address the need of homeless families. There needs to be more resources to better address the needs of homeless families, or those at risk of homelessness, before they become chronically homeless. Part of this includes developing criteria that identify vulnerable families beyond just chronic homelessness. -Submitted by the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness