Texas Homeless Network (THN)

Activities

The Texas Homeless Network is a nonprofit membership organization that advocates policies, conducts research, and coordinates programs designed to reduce homelessness in the state of Texas. ²

THN has three focus areas. The first is educating people on its preferred policies and activities to end homelessness through a statewide conference. The second is to provide resources, including press release templates, policy stances, and public blog posts, that promote best practices of its member organizations. The third is advocating for public policy at the local, state, and federal levels that it argues will end homelessness in Texas.  ²

As of October 2025, THN claims to have trained nearly 3,000 homeless service provides over nearly 550 trainings and to have offered 1,300 hours of technical assistance to homeless service providers over the prior year. ²

THN hosts Homeless Awareness Day to bring homeless advocates to the Texas State Capitol to advocate for affordable housing and to share stories of homeless individuals with legislators. In 2025, THN advocates for legislation to expand the Texas Homeless Data Sharing Network, to start a pilot program to award grants for personalized treatment of homeless veterans with substance abuse disorders, to prohibit rent increases on tenants in developments with low-income housing tax credits, and to use surplus government property to supply housing to homeless veterans. THN also advocated legislation devoted to the left-of-center principle of intersectionality that focused particularly on assisting racial minorities, immigrants, criminals, and those who identify as LGBT. ³

THN was founded in the 1980s and was formally incorporated with funds from the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs in 1991. ⁴

People

The president and chief executive officer of the Texas Homeless Network as of 2025 was Eric Samuels. Samuels began work as the president and CEO of THN in October 2015. Previously, he was a program manager at THN and the executive director of Seen Hills Homeless Center. ^{5  6}

Members

Members of the Texas Homeless Network include Two Sapphires, Cort, Patrick Burns Co., Public Knowledge, Virtu Financial, Austin Street Center, Families in Crisis, Foundation for the Homeless, Good Neighbor Settlement House, Housing Authority of San Angelo, Housing Authority of the City of Denton, Housing Forward, Interfaith Family Services, MHMR of Tarrant County, Tarrant County Homeless Coalition, Abilenes Housing Authority, the City of Corpus Christi, Coalition for the Homeless of Houston, Catholic Outreach Services, the City of Laredo, Hope Center Austin, the City of Brownsville Grants and Community Development Department, Collin County Homeless Coalition, San Antonio Catholic Worker House of Hospitality, and the South Texas Development Council. ⁷

Financials

According to tax filings, in 2023 the Texas Homeless Network reported $3,315,353 in revenues, $3,031,218 in expenses, and $3,604,840 in assets. Of its expenses, THN spent $2,771,643 collaborating with advocacy organizations throughout the state of Texas to promote its preferred homelessness policies, conduct research on homelessness, operate a homeless management information services and data sharing network, and host an annual statewide conference. That same year, THN received over 81 percent of its revenue ($2,687,829) from government grants. It also received $146,805 from other gifts, grants, and contributions and reported receiving $241,649 in income from its conference. ¹