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Housing First: The Pathways Model to End Homelessness for People With Mental Illness and Addiction

This manual explains phf practices in detail, including staffing patterns, finances, and operations. By laying bare the program, we hope that administrators, advocates, policy makers, educators, and others may find it useful for implementing (or…

Tags: housing first-- implementation-- pathways to housing-- PSH-- scholarly

Understanding Encampments of People Experiencing Homelessness and Community Responses: Emerging Evidence as of Late 2018

This paper documents what is known about homeless encampments as of late 2018, based on a review of the limited literature produced thus far by academic and research institutions and public agencies, supplemented by interviews with key informants.…

Tags: community response-- encampments-- literature review-- unsheltered homelessness

Opposing and Policing Racial Integration: Evidence from the Housing Choice Voucher Program

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…

Tags: criminal justice system-- eviction-- Los Angeles CA-- racial disparities-- scholarly

Trauma-Informed Housing: A Toolkit for Advancing Equity and Economic Opportunity in Affordable Housing

This toolkit is intended to help affordable housing providers, resident service providers, property management, etc. design and operate trauma-informed housing. The toolkit defines trauma-informed housing,and contains sections on trauma-informed…

Tags: toolkit-- trauma-informed care-- trauma-informed design

Historical Context of Racist Planning: A History of how Planning Segregated Portland

Historical Context of Racist Planning: A history of how planning segregated Portland is a review of racist planning practices in Portland. This systemic discrimination, which was also practiced nationwide and goes back to the origins of our country,…

Tags: history-- housing-- planning-- Portland OR

Canadian Housing First Toolkit

This toolkit is based on the experience of the Canadian At Home/Chez Soi project that used the Pathways to Housing model of Housing First for homeless people with mental illness. While the toolkit has a mental health focus because it is based on the…

Tags: Canada-- housing first-- implementation-- toolkit

Strategies to Balance Fidelity to Housing First Principles with Local Realities: Lessons from a Large Urban Centre

The importance of program implementation in achieving desired outcomes is well- documented, but there remains a need for concrete guidance on how to achieve fidelity to evidence- based models within dynamic local contexts. Housing First (HF), an…

Tags: at home/chez soi-- Canada-- housing first-- implementation-- model fidelity-- program evaluation-- scholarly

Housing First and Single-Site Housing

In 2002, the United States embraced the Housing First approach, which led to the widespread adoption of this approach in cities across the nation. This resulted in programmatic variations of Housing First and calls for clarity about the Housing First…

Tags: housing first-- model fidelity-- open access-- qualitative-- scattered-site-- scholarly-- single-site

Pathways Housing First Institute

Website for the Pathways to Housing non-profit, who originally developed the Housing First model.

Tags: housing first-- model fidelity-- pathways to housing

The Current State of Youth Homelessness Approaches: Insights and Observations

The Current State of Youth Homelessness Approaches report outlines interventions, practices, and broader strategies to prevent, reduce, and end youth homelessness. The final product details ORS Impact’s approach to the project, select insights and…

Tags: implementation-- systems design-- youth

County Profiles 2023- Oregon Housing: Homelessness by County

Interactive map showing PIT counts by county.

Tags: data-- OHCS-- Oregon-- point-in-time count

What We Do

The "about us" page for the Oregon Housing and Community Services.

Tags: government-- OHCS-- Oregon-- organization

Oregon’s Project Turnkey: Report to the Oregon State Legislature

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

Tags: COVID-19-- emergency shelter-- hotel shelter-- motel shelter-- Oregon-- Project Turnkey-- report

Centering Racial Equity in Homeless System Design: Executive Summary

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

Tags: Alameda County CA-- CoC-- racial equity-- systems design

Centering Racial Equity in Homeless System Design

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…

Tags: Alameda County CA-- CoC-- racial equity-- systems design

Inequity in the Permanent Supportive Housing System in Los Angeles: Scale, Scope and Reasons for Black Residents’ Returns to Homelessness

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)…

Tags: eviction-- Los Angeles CA-- policy-- PSH-- racial disparities

‘No brokers to move out of here’: A mixed method analysis of the impact of homelessness policy and shelter governance on families residing in NYC shelters

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…

Tags: emergency shelter-- family homelessness-- New York City NY-- open access-- policy-- scholarly-- shelter governance

Evaluation of California's Project Roomkey Program

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…

Tags: California-- COVID-19-- emergency shelter-- evaluation-- hotel shelter-- motel shelter-- project roomkey

The Ambiguities, Limits and Risks of Housing First from a European Perspective

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…

Tags: housing first-- model fidelity-- open access-- pathways to housing-- scholarly

Serving Native American Households Using ERA: Learning From High-spending Programs

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).

Tags: native american/alaska native/indigenous-- rent assistance

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