Ten-year Plan to End Homelessness:

Click here to read the ten-year plan to end homelessness, Homelessness in Montgomery County: Beginning to End, which contains information and statistics about homelessness in our community.

Other Organizations that Deal with Homelessness and Housing Issues:

• Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
• Homes for the Homeless
• National Alliance to End Homelessness
  
• National Coalition for the Homeless
  
• National Law Center on Housing & Poverty
  
• National Low-Income Housing Coalition
  
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Homelessness page
  
• Welfare Information Network

Books on Homelessness:

Click on the links below to view and purchase books from Amazon.com. A portion of the proceeds goes to the Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless to support our efforts to end homelessness!

Elementary School

• Our Wish and Our Wish Activity Book by Ralph D. Nunez
  
• Saily's Journey by Ralph D. Nunez
  
• Cooper's Tale by Ralph D. Nunez
  
• December by Eve Bunting
• Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
• Changing Places: A Kid's View of Shelter Living by Margie Chalofsky and others
• Sam and the Lucky Money by Karen Chinn
• Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen by Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan
• Gowanus Dogs by Jonathon Frost
• Home is Where We Live: Life at a Shelter Through a Young Girl's Eyes by B. L. Groth
• A Rose for Abby by Donna Guthrie
• The Lady in the Box by Ann McGovern
• A Chance to Grow by E. Sandy Powell
• Mandy's House: The Story of a Homeless Family Who Finds a New Place to Live by Ruth Spangler
• Monkey Island by Paula Fox
• The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
• Lives Turned Upside Down: Homeless Children in Their Own Words and Photographs by Ruth Spangler
• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
• Goodbye House by Frank Asch

Middle School

• No Place to Be: Voices of Homeless Children by Judith Berck and Robert Coles
• The Runaways by Kristen Butcher
• Homelessness by Sara Criswell-Dixon
• My Fabulous New Life by Shelia Greenwald
• Lives Turned Upside Down: Homeless Children in Their Own Words and Photographs by Jim Hubbard
• The Way Home: Ending Homelessness in America by Henry N. Abrams
• Almost a Hero by John Neufeld
• Homelessness: Can We Solve the Problem? by Laurie and Jeanne Vestals
• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
• Homelessness by Mark McCauslin
• Monkey Island by Paula Fox
• A Chance to Grow by E. Sandy Powell

High School

• A Shelter Is Not a Home...Or Is It? Lessons from Family Homelessness in New York City
by Ralph D. Nunez
• Homelessness in America by Jim Baumohl
• Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America by Jonathan Kozol
• The Way Home: Ending Homelessness in America by Jodi Cobb (Editor), Philip Brookman (Editor), and Jane Slate Siena (Editor)
• I Have Arrived Before My Words: Autobiographical Writings of Homeless Women by Deborah Pugh and Jeanie Tietjen
• The Homeless: Opposing Viewpoints by Tamara Roleff
• Grand Central Winter by Lee Stringer
• Homelessness by Mark McCauslin