Prevention Resources

To decrease homelessness in Tarrant and Parker Counties, TCHC wants to keep those who are housed from becoming homeless. Through financial assistance, case management, outreach, and housing searches, our partner agencies are making a difference.

How to Get Assistance

If you are in need of assistance for yourself or your family, our partner agencies are ready to work with you. Services depend on your current housing status. According to HUD, you are considered homeless if you "lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence," or have "a primary nighttime residence" at a temporary shelter, institutionalization, or "a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation." If this describes your current situation, please click on Rapid Re-Housing services. If this does not apply to you but you are in danger of being homeless without assistance, please click on Homeless Prevention services.

For agencies in the Dallas area, see the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance HPRP Directory.

Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP)

The main funding source of homeless prevention is the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program. Since its inception in September 2009, agencies have helped hundreds of households. Based on figures from the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the chart below compares our CoC to other agencies' HPRP programs for the second quarter, January to March 2010.