shelter programs
Homeless assistance efforts
Shelter programs are organized efforts to provide temporary housing for people experiencing homelessness, domestic violence, or displacement from disasters.
They range from emergency overnight facilities to transitional housing with support services: The city expanded its shelter programs before winter.
The term often appears in discussions of social services and housing policy.
- homeless servicesAid for the unhoused
- halfway housesSupervised post-incarceration residences
- mealOccasion for nourishment
- refugee campsTemporary housing for displaced persons
- safetyFreedom from harm
safe haven · warming centers · warming station · case management · social services · cooling centers · drop-in center · asylum · public housing projects · cot · warmth · apartment · comfort · outreach · overnight · resources · intervention · refuge
- humanitarian aidaid, aid organizations, aid workers, disaster relief, aid agencies
- community servicesparks, family services, libraries, family support, schools
- church outreachchurch outreach, community outreach, neighborhood outreach, homeless outreach, gospel outreach
- war reliefwar relief, relief funds, relief efforts, relief agencies, relief workers
- interventionsrescue, surgery, therapy, aid, assistance
- housingapartments, home, house, houses, homes
shelter programshomeownership
Legally possessing residential property
public housing · affordable housing · subsidized apartments · rent subsidies · housing vouchers