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Our Emergency Rental Assistance Priority (ERAP) Index helps local decision makers identify neighborhoods with the greatest need for rental assistance and apply an equity lens when allocating these resources. Search for your county to see data that,…

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Collection of resources from the Urban Institute addressing housing justice.

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Brief HUD definition of PSH.

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List of support services that can be paid for with CoC Supportive Service funds.

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The Continuum of Care (CoC) Program is designed to promote community wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, and State and local governments to quickly rehouse homeless individuals and…

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HUD guide to rapid re-housing.

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This listserv reviews existing resources related to HUD’s definition of homelessness and provides important reminders when documenting someone’s homeless status. Additionally, it announces the availability of a new resource to help intake workers…

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A Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) is the information system designated by a local Continuum of Care (CoC) to comply with the requirements of CoC Program interim rule 24 CFR 578. It is a locally implemented data system used to record and…

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Somewhat technical but still useful explanation of what the emergency grant solutions program is

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Explanation of what a CoC does

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Explains the key characteristics of housing first, as applied to PSH models.

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Explanation of the emergency solutions grants (ESG) program, which is one of the federal funding sources for addressing homelessness.

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Checklist of characteristics a program should have to be considered "housing first", intended as a tool to be used by those administering programs.

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Chart that can help communities scan for additional rapid re-housing resources.

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Brief overview of how one homelessness services provider sought to advance racial equity in their organization.

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Introduction: The annual economic burden of chronic homelessness in the U.S. is estimated to be as high as $3.4 billion. The Permanent Supportive Housing with Housing First (Housing First) program, implemented to address the problem, has been shown…

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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…

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This publication highlights two successful efforts to pass just cause protections – one in Oregon and the other in Washington State. The case study is part of NLIHC’s State and Local Tenant Protection Series: A Primer on Renters’ Rights, a collection…

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In this webinar, researchers Dr. Cathy Fournier and Cohen Pinkoski discuss the Journey to Reconciliation project. The project explores the experiences of Indigenous Peoples who have experienced being unhoused in the past or currently, as well as the…

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Objectives. To determine what role the 88 000 Housing and Urban Development–Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) vouchers for permanent supportive housing among US veterans distributed between 2008 and 2017 played in the significant fall in…

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