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ENFIARÉ
Making homelessness history.
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The name
Enfiaré
to breathe into · to inspire · to cause to expand
A person who has slept outside long enough begins to fold inward. Breath goes shallow, the world narrows to the next cold hour. To enfiaré is to put air back into a life that had been holding it. We breathe dignity back into the day, and we widen the doorway so more people get to come inside and stay.
The creed we build on
Spirit in recovery
Mind in unity
Body in service
Three lines we wear at the hem of every shirt and carry into every interaction. They name the order of the work: steady the person, gather the community, then do the labor of care.
Where things stand
The size of the problem, counted honestly
On a single night in January 2025, federal counts found roughly 745,652 people without a home in America. The total fell for the first time since 2016, carried almost entirely by a sharp drop in family homelessness. Two harder facts sit underneath that headline.
745,652 ▼ 3.4%
People experiencing homelessness on a single night, the first national decrease since 2016.
Source · 2025 HUD AHAR
155,750 record
People in chronic homelessness, a new high. The hardest cases are still getting harder.
Source · 2025 HUD AHAR
32,495 ▼ ~1%
Veterans without a home. A long decline that has nearly stalled and needs holding.
Source · 2025 HUD AHAR
The national total is still about 28 percent above where it sat in January 2020. A good year is not the same as a solved problem. The drop in family homelessness shows what funded prevention can do; the record in chronic homelessness shows where the work is not yet reaching. Enfiaré aims at both ends at once.
What we watch
The same forecast, read from a doorway
Most weather maps are built to answer one question. Will the drive home be bad. That is a fair question, and it belongs to someone who has a home to drive to.
Read the same forecast from a doorway and it stops being about traffic. Heat that makes a commute unpleasant is heat that kills inside a tent on asphalt. A flood warning is a creek coming up into an encampment at two in the morning. A cold night is a night that does not end for someone.
A 2024 study in the American Journal of Epidemiology examined deaths among people experiencing homelessness in two American counties between 2015 and 2022. It attributed 50.1 percent of those deaths in Clark County, Nevada, and 7.0 percent in Los Angeles County, to temperature. The authors note that the estimates run orders of magnitude above what the same method finds in the general population. These are not projections. They are deaths that already happened.
The Overview reads the public science feeds every weather service reads, and asks them the second question. It covers the whole planet. Every layer names its instrument and the hour it was taken, so you can check the reading rather than trust it.
- Severe events on every continent. Earthquakes, floods, tropical cyclones, wildfires, droughts and volcanic activity, at the two alert levels that mean people are in danger, from the joint United Nations and European Commission disaster system.
- Every American warning that carries a boundary. Flood, flash flood, coastal flood, storm surge, tsunami, extreme heat and extreme cold, from the National Weather Service.
- Every river gauge in the country at or above action stage, with its observed level set against its flood stage.
- Water at the coast. American tide stations measured against what the tide tables predicted, and roughly a thousand more stations reporting from ninety-seven other countries.
- Rain and snow falling right now, worldwide, alongside live satellite cloud cover and a choice of daily Earth imagery.
The readings come from NASA, NOAA and the National Weather Service, the United States Geological Survey, the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System run by the United Nations and the European Commission, and the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. Each of them publishes this data openly for anyone to use. Naming them is attribution, and not an endorsement of Enfiaré by any of them.
Built for a broken connection
School filters, shelter Wi-Fi, library terminals and consumer security software all block science hostnames, and a page that goes blank reads as a page that is dead. When a source cannot be reached, The Overview fetches it a second way through our own server. If that fails too, it says so in plain words and keeps drawing everything that still works. The people most likely to be on a filtered connection are the people this was built for.
How the work is built
One diamond, four divisions
Enfiaré is organized as four quadrants that hold a single purpose between them. One earns, one builds, one writes the rules, and one tends the person in front of us. Each carries a color and a charge.
If you need help now
A doorway, always open
You do not have to read about the mission before you reach a person. If you or someone near you is in danger, call 911. For mental-health crisis support, call or text 988, any hour. Our Get Help page gathers the lines that work and the local resources we have verified, and points to the resource atlas for housing and services near you.
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Stand with the work
Signing the Stewardship Pledge costs nothing and asks for nothing but your agreement that everyone deserves a home. It makes you a Steward, the first rung of the work, and adds your name to a wall of people who decided to be counted.
The wall fills as Stewards sign. A name appears here only when its owner chooses.
All four, as one