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Homeless Shelter API

Introducing our National Registered Homeless Shelters API for the United States, featuring an extensive and up-to-date database.
  • Our API supports enabling precise results tailored to your needs.
  • Covering more than 19,000 cities across all 50 states, our API offers comprehensive coverage to support a wide range of applications.
  • To ensure accuracy and reliability, we diligently update our records every quarter, providing you with the most current information available. Stay ahead and enhance your safety applications, background checks, and community resources with our National Registered Homeless Shelter API.

Homeless Shelter API supports 3 endpoints to search shelters:

  • Search homeless shelters by location, e.g., https://homeless-shelter.topapis.com/location?lat=47.630703&lng=-122.186370&radius=1.4&apikey={API-KEY}
  • Search homeless shelters by state & city & name, e.g., https://homeless-shelter.topapis.com/state-city?state=Washington&city=Bellevue&apikey={API-KEY}
  • Search homeless shelters by zip code & name, e.g., https://homeless-shelter.topapis.com/zipcode?zipcode=98004&apikey={API-KEY}

The following response is an example for the endpoints:

[
    {
        "name": "Congregations for the Homeless",
        "address": "515 116th Ave NE #150",
        "city": "Bellevue",
        "state": "WA",
        "zip_code": "98004",
        "location": "47.61465898603885,-122.18766401623733",
        "phone_number": "(425) 502-9958",
        "email_address": "dwightj@cfhomelesss.org",
        "fax_number": "",
        "official_website": "https://www.cfhomeless.org/winter-shelter/",
        "twitter": "https://www.twitter.com/CF_Homeless",
        "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/www.cfhomeless.org",
        "instagram": "",
        "description": "The Eastside Mens Shelter (EMS) operates year round and is an emergency overnight shelter providing men safety. Men in the shelter are provided with a hot meal and a safe place to sleep. The trained staff connect the men to necessary resources, helping them move toward security, stability, and independence.Location: 515B 116th Ave NE (at Lincoln Center). Hours: Overnight services will be from 7:30 pm to 7:30 am. Men are allowed on site beginning at 7:00 pm. The closest bus route is the 271 bus, which stops at 116 Ave NE and NE 2nd Pl. Walk back North, and the Center is on the left.",
        "photo_urls": [
            "https://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/gallery/3526__jya.jpg",
            "https://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/gallery/3526__gdl.jpg",
            "https://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/gallery/3526_cfhomeless_org.jpg"
        ],
        "update_datetime": "2023-06-21T17:26:38Z"
    }
]