MINI CHALLENGE | DREAM-KG Homelessness

# Data Sources for DREAM-KG Homelessness Challenge ## U.S. Government Databases & APIs - HUD Exchange Resource Locator - https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/coc/gis-tools/ - Continuum of Care (CoC) program data including shelter locations and Housing Inventory Count (HIC) - HUD Homelessness Data Exchange (HDX) - https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/hdx/ - Annual Point-in-Time (PIT) counts and system performance measures - HMIS (Homeless Management Information System) Data Standards - https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/hmis/ - Data dictionaries and standards for homeless service provider records - USA.gov Federal Service Locator API - https://www.usa.gov/developer - Government directory data that may include shelter information - Data.gov Homelessness Datasets - https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?tags=homelessness - Various federal datasets on homeless services and housing - Census Bureau TIGER/Line Shapefiles - https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html - For address validation and geocoding verification ## State & Local Government Sources - 211 API Services (varies by state) - https://www.211.org/ - Real-time social services database including shelter information across North America - City Open Data Portals - Los Angeles: https://data.lacity.org/ (search "homeless") - San Francisco: https://datasf.org/opendata/ (shelter and navigation center data) - New York City: https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/ (DHS shelter data) - Seattle: https://data.seattle.gov/ (homeless response data) - Chicago: https://data.cityofchicago.org/ (shelter locations) - California Department of Social Services - Homeless Data - https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/data-portal - State-level homeless housing and shelter data ## Knowledge Graphs & Structured Data - Google Knowledge Graph Search API - https://developers.google.com/knowledge-graph/ - Verify how shelters appear in Google's structured knowledge base - Wikidata SPARQL Endpoint - https://query.wikidata.org/ - Query for homeless shelters (Q1773722) and related entities with structured properties - OpenStreetMap Overpass API - https://overpass-api.de/ - Query for amenity=shelter, social_facility=homeless_shelter tags - Schema.org Markup Examples - https://schema.org/HomelessShelter - Standard vocabulary for shelter data representation ## Public Directories & Service Locators - Aunt Bertha/Findhelp.org API - https://company.findhelp.com/ - Major social care network with shelter listings (may require partnership) - National Alliance to End Homelessness Resources - https://endhomelessness.org/resource/ - Research data and policy resources - Homeless Shelter Directory - https://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/ - Public directory of U.S. shelters for data comparison - National Coalition for the Homeless - https://nationalcoalitionforthehomeless.org/ - Directory resources and fact sheets by region ## APIs for Validation & Geocoding - Google Maps Places API - https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service - Verify business listings, hours, and contact information - Google Geocoding API - https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding - Validate and standardize addresses - OpenCage Geocoding API - https://opencagedata.com/ - Open alternative for address verification - USPS Address Verification API - https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/ - Authoritative U.S. address validation - Bing Maps Locations API - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bingmaps/rest-services/ - Alternative for address and business validation ## Research Repositories & Academic Sources - ICPSR Homelessness Data Collections - https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ - Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research archives - National Alliance to End Homelessness State of Homelessness Reports - https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/ - Annual statistical reports with shelter capacity data - PubMed Central - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ (search "homeless shelter") - Research papers with embedded shelter data and methodologies - Google Dataset Search - https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/ (query: "homeless shelter") - Aggregator for finding academic and public datasets - Homeless Hub (Canadian) - https://www.homelesshub.ca/ - Research library and data on homelessness (includes some U.S. comparative data) ## Nonprofit & Foundation Data Sources - Charity Navigator - https://www.charitynavigator.org/ - Verify legitimacy and operational status of shelter-operating nonprofits - GuideStar/Candid - https://www.guidestar.org/ - IRS Form 990 data for homeless service organizations - Foundation Center Grants Database - https://candid.org/ - Funding patterns that may indicate active/closed shelters ## Phone & Contact Validation - Twilio Lookup API - https://www.twilio.com/lookup - Validate phone numbers for shelter contacts - NumVerify API - https://numverify.com/ - Phone number validation and carrier lookup ## Social Media & Review Platforms - Yelp Fusion API - https://www.yelp.com/developers - Review data, hours, and business status for shelters - Facebook Graph API - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api - Page