The City of Seattle first declared a State of Emergency for homelessness in 2015. Despite intentional efforts and significant spending, the emergency has only grown worse since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. After years of effort and…
Overview of Safe Rest Villages including what they are, why they are needed, how they work, where they are located, who is responsible for what, and how they are funded.
Single-site, permanent supportive housing (PSH) buildings with a Housing First approach have become an increasingly common solution to homelessness in many North American cities. Because people who have experienced long-term homelessness are also…
The purpose of the group was to develop system-level recommendations to improve health for Chicagoans experiencing homelessness in partnership with cross-sector experts and people with lived expertise, focusing on recommendations which CDPH and City…
Report that covers a lot of ground. Large repository of evidence in favor of supportive housing, includes specific suggestions for how to scale up supportive housing, includes table of federal funding for supportive housing services.
This document provides a framework for practice in family supportive housing settings. It is intended to be a capacity-building tool for those who are designing or already providing case management services for families living in supportive housing.…
Building Your Program is intended to help mental health authorities, agency administrators, and ACT leaders think through and develop the structure of ACT programs. Although you will work closely together to build ACT programs, for ease, we created…
Building Your Program is intended to help mental health authorities, agency administrators, and Permanent Supportive Housing program leaders think through and develop the structure of Permanent Supportive Housing programs.
Investigation of whether the VI-SPDAT is racially inequitable and prioritizes white people for housing intervention about people of color. Uses data collected from four COC, including Multnomah. Found that "on average, BIPOC clients receive…
The Toronto Housing First (At Home/Chez Soi) Ethno-Racial Intensive Case Management (HF ER ICM) project[1] delivers Housing First ensuring culturally based options for ethno-racial groups experiencing homelessness. We relied on the lessons learned…
The California Department of Housing and Community Development (California HCD) Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) Guidebook of Best Practices to Advance Equity aims to remove barriers for subrecipients and sub-subrecipients when implementing equitable…
This article discusses the unique but often concurrent issues of homelessness and food insecurity in America and considers how agricultural tiny home communities could be developed to address these problems. Examples of existing tiny home communities…
Racial equity is a value and practice that should permeate every aspect of homeless services, from funding to delivery. Applying what we learned through our experience leading the 10-year Family Homelessness Initiative, Building Changes has developed…
Rapid Re-Housing connects people experiencing homelessness to permanent housing in the private rental market. Applying what we learned through our experience leading the 10-year Family Homelessness Initiative, Building Changes has developed a list of…
Policymakers have long recognized the unique challenges young people aging out of foster care may face as they transition to adulthood. A central challenge is securing viable housing options for young adults that are both developmentally appropriate…
The need for outreach to people living unsheltered multiplied, accompanied by COVID-related funding that brought many new outreach personnel into the workforce. Simultaneous to this increase in unsheltered homelessness has been a growing need for…
