Homelessness
HOMELESSNESS IN HATTIESBURG
CONTACT INFORMATION
Urban Development
601-545-4675
200 Forrest Street
Post Office Box 1898
Hattiesburg, MS 39403-1898
Homeless Coordinator
601-545-4596
RESOURCES & LINKS
The City of Hattiesburg plays a role in both Southeast Coalition on Homelessness and The Hub City Homeless Outreach Team. Both of these organizations provide services and resources to those facing homelessness. See the information below for more about each.
Southeast Regional Coalition
Southeast Regional Coalition consists of social service agencies that are currently serving the homeless and low-income families, faith-based entities, and concerned citizens that are concerned about addressing homelessness in our community. The participants in the coalition work together to provide housing services and other resources needed in order for persons to reach stability. Each entity brings something different and needed to the table.
The Hub City Homeless Outreach Team
The Hub City Homeless Outreach Team is a street outreach team that is out weekly in the community to meet people where they are, build relationships with them, dispense hygiene necessities, and assess their needs and help connect them to the resources needed. The team serves as the mobile entry into the Homeless Management Information System, a database that is shared among agencies that serve the homeless. If someone is seeking housing services, they must have an assessment done first, which the team can do on-site.For more information or how to be involved with the Hattiesburg Homelessness Outreach Team, please email our homeless coordinator at brigney@hattiesburgms.com.
The City’s goal is to ensure that homeless and impoverished members of our community receive structured, goal-oriented assistance. The intent is to ensure that those in need have the resources to lift themselves to a safe, stable environment without enabling those for whom addiction, crime, and vagrancy are a continuing choice.
The role of our city homeless coordinator is to address homelessness within Hattiesburg through sustainable solutions by collaborating and connecting with comprehensive support services, Hattiesburg Police Department, and other City departments, to coordinate efforts with residents to prevent and end homelessness.
This role leads the Hub City Homeless Outreach Team, consisting of members of the Balance of State Southeast Coalition, the Pine Belt Nonprofit Network, faith leaders, and other community partners in monthly outreach activities, providing information on available resources and hygiene necessities. For more information or how to be involved with the Hattiesburg Homelessness Outreach Team, please email our homeless coordinator at brigney@hattiesburgms.com.
If you regularly see a homeless individual in the same location and think they may benefit from services, please contact the homeless coordinator Urban Development at 601-545-4596 or email at brigney@hattiesburgms.com. If reporting an illegal encampment, please call 601-545-4675. If you see anyone who seems to be in crisis and a danger to themselves or others, call 911 or police dispatch at 601-544-4910 to request a CIT (Crisis Intervention Trained) officer. You may also call the Pine Belt Mental Health Mobile Crisis Response Team at 888-330-7772.
This printable Street Smart Resource Guide provides referral information for crisis lines, food programs, homeless shelters, medical services and more.
Contact our homeless coordinator Bethany Rigney brigney@hattiesburgms.com if you would like your homelessness resource included on this guide.