Community food services refer to a not-for-profit service in which food is prepared and delivered to the community's people without any cost. The community housing service refers to a not-for-profit service in which temporary shelter is provided to the community's people, generally to individuals experiencing homelessness. Community relief refers to various forms of welfare relief services offered by government and community agencies to improve the primary living conditions of people in the community.
The main types of community food, housing, and relief services are community food services, community housing services, temporary shelters, other community housing services, emergency, and other relief services, and vocational rehabilitation services. Community Food Services providers are mostly non-profit organizations that collect, prepare, and deliver food to low-income and needy people. The different structures include chained outlets and independent outlets. The various end users of the services include individuals (non-chronic) homeless, homeless families, chronic homeless, homeless veterans, unaccompanied homeless youth, and children.
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The global community food, housing, and relief service market grew from $475.7 billion in 2022 to $502.86 billion in 2023 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.7%. The Russia-Ukraine war disrupted the chances of global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, at least in the short term. The war between these two countries has led to economic sanctions on multiple countries, a surge in commodity prices, and supply chain disruptions, causing inflation across goods and services and affecting many markets across the globe. The community food, housing, and relief service market is expected to grow from $609.52 billion in 2027 at a CAGR of 4.9%.
Federal funding for social services is a major driver for the community food, housing, and relief services market. Funding from the government helps many homeless people get shelter. Many programs are run by different countries to assist homeless people. For instance, in the US, every year the Federal Government allocates funds to States/Territories to support social services for vulnerable children, adults, and families through the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG). In India, ‘Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awaas Yojana’ focuses on providing permanent houses with basic amenities to homeless families. The objective of this scheme is to build one crore homes of 25 sqm by 2022. Similarly, the government of India launched the Shelter for Homeless program under the National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM). Under this program, various types of shelters, such as men’s shelters, women’s shelters, family shelters, and special shelters (for old age, mentally ill, and sick persons) are provided. The government of India would finance 75% of the expense for the development of the shelters, while, 25% would be the State commitment. The Indian government is also working on providing rental housing to urban poor belonging to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes, migrants, transgender, and senior citizens. The increased federal funding will help contribute to the market for community food, housing, and relief services leading to its growth.
During the forecast period, the economic slowdown across countries owing to the COVID-19 outbreak is expected to limit the growth of the community food, housing, and relief services market. Many organizations continue to observe the effects of the recession, which has resulted in the reduction of resources of funds and grants. For instance, in early April 2020, Charity Navigator partnered with Reuters News to survey non-profits to assess the financial and programmatic impacts of COVID-19 on the non-profit sector and reported that 83% of respondents were suffering financially. Among the non-profit organizations that were experiencing financial hardships, the average expected decline in revenue for the period between April and June was 38%. The economic downturn has certainly created challenges to the community food, housing, and relief services that rely on donations.
Re-entry services are increasingly being provided for the people exiting prison. The majority of this population face homelessness after their release and have nowhere to go. Therefore, many NGOs have come forward to help them provide shelter. For instance, the US-based Lionheart Foundation provides shelter to this population and its Houses of Healing(HOH) program helps improve prisoners’ lifestyles by providing them with services like transformative programs for prisoners, HOH guide book, HOH video series, and many more.
Major players in the community food, housing, and relief services market are Feeding America, World Food Programme, UNICEF, The Salvation Army, Food For Poor, Adventist Community Services, Doctors Without Borders, Catholic Relief Services, CARE, American National Red Cross, Spectrum Professional Services, Community Options Middlesex, Camba, Easter Seals New Jersey, One Voice Central Texas, Horizon House, Internation Rescue Committee, Fair community housing services limited, Nestle community housing services Ltd., Community Housing Services-Crossroads Villa Inc., Community Housing Partners, Community Housing Ltd., and SRM Housing Services Private Limited.
Western Europe was the largest region in the community food, housing, and relief services market in 2022. Asia-Pacific was the second-largest region in the global community food, housing, and relief services market. The regions covered in the global community food, housing, and relief services market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, and Africa.
The countries covered in community food, housing, and relief services market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK and USA.
The community food, housing, and shelter services consists of revenues earned by entities that offer temporary residential shelter, transitional housing, volunteer construction or repair of low-cost housing, and/or repair of homes for individuals or families in need; or provide food, shelter, clothing, medical relief, resettlement, and counseling to victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts such as wars. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. Only goods and services traded between entities or sold to end consumers are included.
The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD, unless otherwise specified).
The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.
The global community food, housing, and relief services market is segmented -
1) By Type: Community Food Services, Community Housing Services, Temporary Shelters, Other Community Housing Services, Emergency And Other Relief Services, Vocational Rehabilitation Services
2) By Structure: Chained Outlets, Independent Outlets
3) By End-Users: Individuals (Nonchronic) Homeless, Homeless Families, Chronic Homeless, Homeless Veterans, Unaccompanied Homeless Youth And Children