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Can Housing First Work for Youth?

Housing First has emerged as an effective and humane approach to addressing homelessness. In spite of the strength of the evidence, questions remain regarding the applicability of Housing First to sub-populations, including youth. The proposed…

Tags: housing first-- model fidelity-- open access-- scholarly-- youth

Coming of Age: Reimagining the Response to Youth Homelessness in Canada

The goal of the report, ‘Coming of Age: Reimagining the Response to Youth Homelessness in Canada’ is to present an argument for approaching how we respond to youth homelessness in a new way. The report achieves this by pulling together key…

Tags: Canada-- cross-system collaboration-- policy-- youth

Supportive housing program for homeless families: Foster care outcomes and best practices

Purpose: This study is an outcome evaluation of Cottage Housing Incorporated's Serna Village Program (CHI), a supportive housing program serving homeless families in Sacramento, California.
Methods: This quasi-experimental study examined a sample of…

Tags: children-- family homelessness-- foster care-- Sacramento CA-- scholarly-- supportive housing

Housing First, But What Comes Second? A Qualitative Study Of Resident, Staff And Management Perspectives On Single-Site Housing First Program Enhancement

Single-site Housing First (HF) is associated with reduced publicly funded service utilization and costs and alcohol-related harm for chronically homeless individuals with severe alcohol problems. Many residents,however, continue to experience…

Tags: housing first-- qualitative-- scholarly-- Seattle WA-- single-site-- substance use disorder

Scaling Supportive Housing as a Health Care Solution

In 2022, the City of Denver launched the Housing to Health Pay for Success project. The project provides supportive housing to people experiencing chronic homelessness and high rates of arrest and who are at high risk for avoidable and high-cost…

Tags: Denver CO-- health care-- permanent supportive housing-- supportive services-- systems design

SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach

This manual introduces a concept of trauma and offers a framework for becoming a trauma-informed organization, system, or service sector. The manual provides a definition of trauma and a trauma-informed approach, and offers 6 key principles and 10…

Tags: definition-- healthcare-- trauma-informed care

Alternatives to Arrests and Police Responses to Homelessness: Evidence Based Models and Promising Practices

In response to unsheltered homelessness, communities often turn to punitive responses: issuing ordinances that criminalize homelessness, clearing homeless encampments, and arresting people. This results in people becoming trapped in a cycle of…

Tags: criminal justice system-- criminalization of homelessness-- housing first

Rapid Re-housing in High-Cost Markets: What Do Programs Look Like?

Rapid re-housing has become a large component of the response to homelessness in communities across the country. To date, no studies have found anything conclusive on variations in outcomes resulting from differences in program implementation or…

Tags: Boston MA-- case study-- implementation-- Los Angeles CA-- rapid rehousing-- Seattle WA-- Washington DC

Pathways to Housing: Supported Housing for Street-Dwelling Homeless Individuals With Psychiatric Disabilities

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This study examined the effectiveness of the Pathways to Housing supported housing program over a five-year period. Unlike most housing programs that offer services in a linear, step-by-step continuum, the Pathways program in New York City provides…

Tags: comparative study-- housing first-- New York City NY-- pathways to housing-- PSH-- scholarly-- supportive housing

Housing First, Consumer Choice, and Harm Reduction for Homeless Individuals With a Dual Diagnosis

Objectives. We examined the longitudinal effects of a Housing First program for homeless, mentally ill individuals’ on those individuals’ consumer choice, housing stability, substance use, treatment utilization, and psychiatric symptoms. Methods. Two…

Tags: housing first-- open access-- pathways to housing-- PSH-- randomized control trial-- scholarly-- supportive housing

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

What is Racial Equity

Definitions of racial equity, racial justice, and other related terms.

Tags: definition-- racial equity

4 Types of Racism

Explaination of 4 forms racism can take

Tags: definition-- racial equity

A brief history of African American Suburbanization

Brief history of African American exclusion from and eventual access to suburbs.

Tags: history-- housing-- policy-- racial equity

Despite fewer people experiencing police contact, racial disparities in arrests, police misconduct, and police use of force continue

Brief on trends in policing using Bureau of Justice Statistics released in 2022.

Tags: criminal justice system-- racial disparities-- racial equity

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