About Homelessness and Homeless Services Systems for AAAs

CoCs are regional or local planning bodies that coordinate homelessness response funding and provide homelessness services in a geographic area. Each CoC brings together stakeholders and partners to collect homelessness data, set priorities and coordinate service delivery to people who are at risk of or already experiencing homelessness. 

These resources will grant further insight into the kind of work that CoCs and homeless service systems engage in.

• Understanding a Growing Older Adult Homeless Population describes the importance of data collection for understanding the challenges facing people experiencing homelessness.
• Connecting Older Adults to Housing: Examining Disparities reviews successful initiatives resulting in older adults becoming housed and their implications.
• Latest AHAR Confirms Growing Concerns About Older Adult Homelessness briefly details the growth of older adult shares of the homeless population in the United States.
• The Biggest Challenges Facing Older Americans: Insights from the Aging Advisory Group summarizes key takeaways from a series of interviews with an advisory group of various professionals on the topic of aging and homelessness.
• HUD Homeless Assistance Programs: A Basic Primer for Aging Advocates is an excellent introduction to HUD’s homeless assistance programs (like CoCs) with a particular focus on how the Aging Network can support them.

• Key Concepts
• Partnership Case Examples and Tools
• About AAAs and Aging Services for Homeless Services Systems
• Aging and Homelessness Research
• Further Learning and Training
• Doors to Homelessness Home Page