Where Can I Find A Shelter To Sleep In Tonight?

By Housing Nonprofit

HUD Certified Housing Counselors

Where Can I Find A Shelter To Sleep In Tonight?

Are you wondering where you’ll sleep tonight? Do you have no clue where your next meal will come from? If so, we’ll show you how one site can ease those worries while helping you find healthcare and clothing so you can get back on your feet quickly and kick homelessness to the curb.

As the cost of everything, including rent, seems to skyrocket, more people are finding themselves in financial situations that they never experienced before. And one such situation is homelessness due to past-due rent payments and eventual eviction.

Unless you have friends and family to fall back on, you could end up living on the streets once evicted. And that alone can make it seem impossible to get back on your feet. That’s why it’s essential to find at least temporary shelter, so your family has a roof over its head. But if you’ve never been homeless, you may not know where to find such shelter. Thanks to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), you won’t have to look far, as it created a website to specifically help the homeless find shelter and other resources in their communities.

Find Shelter: A One-Stop Shop For Emergency Housing, Food, Healthcare, And Clothing

The HUD created the Find Shelter website to help those in need locate essential services. And the site achieves that goal in several ways.

First, you can use Find Shelter to locate temporary housing. Use the Shelter option and enter your location, and you will see a map of places you can go to hopefully have a safe place to sleep tonight. Depending on where you live, you could have several options for shelter. Contact each using the information provided on the site, and you should have some luck in covering your need for temporary housing.

Second, the Find Shelter site lets you look for food pantries in your city run by local charities, churches, etc. Contact as many as you can, and your food worries should be eliminated, at least for the time being.

Third, Find Shelter lets you locate health clinics nearby. This is another essential service that can help if you are sick, need a procedure, etc. but are worried that you cannot afford such care.

Lastly, you can use the Find Shelter site to find clothing in your area via thrift stores, Goodwill, charities, donation centers, the Salvation Army, and more.

While those four options form the core of Find Shelter’s website, it also helps you find homeless assistance by locating a Continuum of Care resource provider in your community. This can help if you are at risk of homelessness due to eviction or other reasons, need transitional housing, or want guidance from housing experts on keeping a roof over your head. And if you need other assistance, Find Shelter can provide it with resources on getting help paying your rent, applying for Section 8 vouchers, how to find a free or low-cost housing counselor, and more.