David A. Snow is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He has studied and written widely on homelessness and poverty.

The National Center on Family Homelessness, based in Washington, D.C., as a part of American Institutes for Research, is dedicated to helping homeless families. Its website includes resources for media members interested in homelessness. Contact Barbara Broman.

The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth works to make sure that children without a home have access to education.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness, based in Arlington, Va., works on public policy issues affecting the mentally ill, including access to affordable housing. Contact Lauren Gleason, the director of public relations and media.

The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness was formed in 1987 to coordinate the federal response to homelessness. It works to create a national partnership at every level of government and with the private sector to reduce and end homelessness in the nation while maximizing the effectiveness of the federal government in contributing to that end. […]

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is charged with caring for American veterans, their families and their survivors. Eric Shinseki has been Secretary 0f Veterans Affairs since January 2009.

Lecturer in the Religious Studies department at McGill University in Montreal. He studies religious epistomology and is interested in particular in the work of Lonergan.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is the nation’s housing agency, charged with increasing homeownership, particularly among minorities, and creating affordable housing. Shaun Donovan has been the Secretary for HUD since January 2009.

Director of the Centre for Post-Communist Studies and the Department of Political Science at Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She researches church-state relations in European Union member states. She regularly serves as an expert witness for cases involving immigration and deportation.