Over fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, how have mechanisms of residential segregation changed? Using a case study of a Los Angeles suburb’s reaction to Black movement through the federal Housing Choice Voucher program, I argue…
The ‘Pathways to Housing’ Program (PHP) is an internationally recognized reference point for solutions to chronic homelessness espousing principles of ‘Housing First’. In Australian capital cities, the introduction of Housing First has mostly taken…
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…
This webinar provides insights, practical approaches, and tools for authentic community engagement that amplifies community voice and leans into the wisdom of lived experience to drive equitable systems change.
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 Supportive Housing Training Center offers practical, interactive training solutions that empower people to learn about, build, & provide high-quality supportive housing in their community.
Background: The literature on interventions addressing the intersection of homelessness, mental illness and race is scant. The At Home/Chez Soi research demonstration project is a pragmatic field trial investigating a Housing First intervention for…
This webpage hosts a flowchart intended as a starting place for providers to examine racial equity in their emergency shelter, as well as a video detailing how to use the flowchart.
Planners can play a significant role in reducing homelessness by determining local housing needs through their comprehensive plans, removing regulatory and legal barriers to the development of affordable and supportive housing, and fostering…
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…
Call to action around fighting for housing first, with accompanying myth-busting/reminders that serve as a more advanced and nuanced description of what Housing First is.
Webpage, flowchart, and video intended as a starting point for thinking about where biases and racial inequity might occur in the coordinated entry system.
This is a page hosted by the National Alliance to End Homelessness that lists many different resources on racial equity in the homelessness services system.
Supercharge your outreach through community partnerships. Persons living unsheltered are especially vulnerable. Learn how to reach them, build a system-level strategy, and get some partners.
Courses in this series cover:
Strategies for outreach…
Housed people aren't homeless. Learn how to apply effective strategies for housing individuals and families. Your goals in this course will be to learn how to learn how to implement a Housing First approach in your own work and in your program or…
