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.
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 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.
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.
This study examines racial inequities and homelessness in the United States through mixed methods research in eight communities. We compare the race and ethnicity of those experiencing homelessness to the general population and to people in poverty,…
Review of quantitative and qualitative descriptions of racial inequities in homelessness and housing access; legal and procedural justice factors involved. Created on behalf of UN-initiated broader human rights audit of US policy and practice,…
People of color or mixed race account for more than half of all people experiencing homelessness, despite comprising less than a quarter of the total population in the United States. What are the primary drivers of this severe racial concentration of…
This document provides details on using the performance benchmarks detailed in the Rapid Re-Housing Performance Benchmarks and Program Standards to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of rapid re-housing practice, both in individual programs and…
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…
This toolkit is intended to help current and potential Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) providers design, redesign, and operate effective programs that successfully use the core components of RRH to end homelessness for individuals and families.
The Alliance has developed a series of 10 to 15-minute modules on the key elements of rapid re-housing. Each of these modules succinctly shares best practices from successful rapid re-housing programs and breaks down the basic elements of each…
NAEH webpage that provides easy to understand definitions of rapid rehousing and its constitutive services (includes infographics), evidence that suggests rapid rehousing works, and more advanced guidance for practitioners.
This report serves to illustrate the state of research on rapid rehousing (in 2015), and includes a nice overview of what rapid re-housing is (with graphics), what things we know, and what remains to be researched.
Sessions of the Rapid Rehousing (RRH) Roundtable Discussion Series took place every six weeks, with topics to be determined along the way. Each webinar in the series hosted a facilitated dialogue amongst a small group of panelists and included an…
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…