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,…
This week's edition of the Prioritizing Equity series explores the unique health care and social needs of patients experiencing houselessness. In addition, experts discuss the importance of equitable, holistic, cost effective, evidence-based…
Over the past three years, Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH), a nonprofit affordable housing provider, has developed and rolled out a trauma-informed housing framework in several of their affordable housing communities across the country and…
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…
The annual Point-in-Time count of homelessness is an event that invites coverage from local outlets. It is an opportunity to report on the state of homelessness in a community and efforts to address it. This guidance is intended to equip journalists…
In this learning brief, Community Solutions explores the existing evidence on racial disparities in rental debt, and how homeless response leaders might tackle or consider rental debt in their strategies to prevent or reduce homelessness.
This webinar provided guidance and fostered innovation in best practices and strategies to create street outreach that ends homelessness. It covered topics including street outreach practices, pathways from homelessness to housing, considerations for…
This toolkit is designed to help communities analyze and improve the processes they use to prioritize individuals for housing, including assessing for supportive services and adaptations to sustain housing. It provides a framework for identifying and…
In this webinar, experts from the criminal justice system covered:
1. Basics on the criminal justice system and reentry and how they intersect with homeless service systems
2. Typical pre-release services and discharge planning
3. How community…
This report describes a needs assessment of Latinx persons at-risk for or who are actively homeless in Los Angeles County. We conducted interviews with stakeholders (n = 24) who work in homeless services, research, and policy. Themes from these…
Report and recommendations created by Los Angeles committee on Black people experiencing homelessness. Created over the course of 2018, with input from service providers, people with lived experience, and other experts. For a range of issues that…
This session explored why it is important to continuously innovate, what opportunities have emerged from reimagining Rapid Rehousing (RRH) models and using continuous improvement strategies to redefine what's possible in effective RRH implementation,…
This session discussed effective Rapid Rehousing (RRH) strategies that provide support to households across a diverse spectrum of needs, with a focus on strategies to embed light-touch, housing-focused services within an assertive engagement RRH…
This session discussed how Black, Indigenous, Latine, and other people of color experience homelessness at disproportionate rates and looked to understand and examine the root causes of these inequities to implement more equitable solutions in the…
