Housing First Additional Topics

Implementation of Housing First and Guiding Resources (I&G)

I&G: Assessment tools (checklists, tools intended for providers)

  • USICH: Housing First Checklist: Assessing Projects and Systems for a Housing First Orientation
  • Housing First: The Pathways Model to End Homelessness for People With Mental Illness and Addiction (book)
  • NAEH: Understanding Housing First (video training)
  • Canadian Housing First Toolkit
  • THIS is Housing First for Youth. Part 1 – Program Model Guide.
  • THIS is Housing First for Youth: Operations Manual.
  • HUD: Housing First Assessment Tool

I&G: Fidelity to Pathways Model 

  • The housing first model (HFM) fidelity index: designing and testing a tool for measuring integrity of housing programs that serve active substance users
  • Table listing elements deemed important to maintaining fidelity of model
  • Pathways to Housing: Supported Housing for Street-Dwelling Homeless Individuals With Psychiatric Disabilities
  • Housing First, Consumer Choice, and Harm Reduction for Homeless Individuals With a Dual Diagnosis
  • Strategies to Balance Fidelity to Housing First Principles with Local Realities: Lessons from a Large Urban Centre
  • The Ambiguities, Limits and Risks of Housing First from a European Perspective

I&G: Scattered site vs single-site

Culturally specific care in Housing First

  • Moving from rhetoric to reality: adapting Housing First for homeless individuals with mental illness from ethno-racial groups

  • At Home in Winnipeg: Localizing Housing First as a Culturally Responsive Approach to Understanding and Addressing Urban Indigenous Homelessness

  • Housing First, Cultural Competence and Ethno-Racial Communities

Making the case for Housing First

Evaluating Housing First

  • CSH Literature Review of Supportive Housing

  • Housing retention

  • Outcomes associated with HF: Housing and Health 
    • Fidelity to the Housing First Model and Variation in Health Service Use Within Permanent Supportive Housing

    • Housing First, But What Comes Second? A Qualitative Study Of Resident, Staff And Management Perspectives On Single-Site Housing First Program Enhancement

    • Permanent Supportive Housing With Housing First to Reduce Homelessness and Promote Health Among Homeless Populations With Disability: A Community Guide Systematic Review

Housing First and Healthcare

  • CSH: Housing First and Access to Housing

  • Community Solutions: What is housing first?

  • Canadian Observatory on Homelessness: Housing First

Additional Resources

Additional Topics