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This toolkit is designed to help communities analyze and improve the processes they use to prioritize individuals for housing, including assessing for supportive services and adaptations to sustain housing. It provides a framework for identifying and…

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Explanation of street outreach through the lens of healthcare providers for people experiencing homelessness. Webpage contains links to additional explanatory resources.

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This publication describes practices and services that HCH agencies have found to be helpful in engaging youth experiencing homelessness. It is not a guide on street outreach for youth experiencing homelessness 1 . It is not evaluative or, strictly…

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This tip sheet is drawn from the National Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Council’s Outreach & Enrollment Quick Guide 1 , which provides practical strategies for outreach and enrollment activities. One foundational element of outreach and…

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Drawn from key expert interviews with frontline staff, this quick guide covers: the definitions, principles, and roles of outreach; building networks and awareness through community outreach; the who, what, and where of client outreach; challenges…

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NHCHC definition of permanent supportive housing.

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This report provides an overview of laws in effect across the country that punish homelessness. They examined the city codes of 187 urban and rural cities across the country. In addition to the survey of policies in force across the country, this…

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Very brief national overview of public housing history.

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Each year, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) measures the availability of rental housing affordable to extremely low-income households and other income groups. Based on the American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample (ACS…

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Fact sheet, provides easily digestible evidence of the benefits of housing first over treatment first or abstinence programs, across a variety of indicators.

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NLIHC factsheet about housing first, includes a brief definition and answers to common questions.

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Long, detailed publication exporing racial disparities in crime and crime victimization, racial disparities produced by policing, and some ways these disparities could be reduced.

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The report investigates the unique characteristics of high-spending emergency rental assistance (ERA) programs administered by Native American Tribes or Tribally Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs).

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There is strong evidence that the Pathways Housing First model can move homeless people with sustained experiences of living rough, with problematic drug and alcohol use, and with severe mental illness straight into ordinary housing, and successfully…

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Project Roomkey (PRK) was an innovative statewide effort established by the State of California in 2020 during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Overseen by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), PRK provided people experiencing…

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Homelessness in the United States has been increasing at an exponential rate over the past three decades, and the US has not experienced the current level of homelessness since the Great Depression of the 1930’s. With this rise in homelessness has…

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This policy report examines why Black residents of PSH in LA returned to homelessness more often than white residents of PSH. The authors address obstacles in (1) enrollment in PSH and the search for housing, (2) encountered while housed, and (3)…

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Results of a extended "homeless system racial equity process." The final report includes a deeper dive into the data analysis, systems modeling, and qualitative information supporting the recommendations on the approach and resources needed to infuse…

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Executive summary explaining results of Alameda county's homeless system racial equity process.

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Report of Project Turnkey including what the project addresses, project results, project snapshots, opportunities for improvement. (Description taken from key Abstract information)

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