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Welcome to MFMA

 My Fellow Man Alliance is a private, non-profit organization with a dedicated mission to provide safe housing, medical respite referrals, community awareness and education, outreach and intervention, self development and independence programming for homeless persons or those that would otherwise become homeless without intervention throughout Houston, Texas and the Nation.


 

Definition of Homelessness

“An individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; and a person who has a nighttime residence that is (a) a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill); (b) an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or (c) a public or private place not designed for, nor ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.”

As defined by the McKinney-Vento Act (P.L. 100-77) 42 U.S.C.  §11302