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Housing First, Cultural Competence and Ethno-Racial Communities

The Toronto Housing First (At Home/Chez Soi) Ethno-Racial Intensive Case Management (HF ER ICM) project[1] delivers Housing First ensuring culturally based options for ethno-racial groups experiencing homelessness. We relied on the lessons learned…

Tags: at home/chez soi-- Canada-- housing first-- racial equity

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, 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

Housing First programs in congregate-site facilities: can one size fit all?

The ‘Pathways to Housing’ Program (PHP) is an internationally recognized reference point for solutions to chronic homelessness espousing principles of ‘Housing First’. In Australian capital cities, the introduction of Housing First has mostly taken…

Tags: australia-- housing first-- model fidelity-- pathways to housing-- PSH-- scholarly-- single-site

Housing First in Permanent Supportive Housing

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

Tags: housing first-- PSH

Housing First Fact Sheet

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NAEH Factsheet on housing first.

Tags: advocacy-- definition-- housing first

Housing First Checklist: Assessing Projects and Systems for a Housing First Orientation

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

Tags: housing first-- implementation

Housing First Assessment Tool

Spreadsheet that service providers can use to measure how closely their project adheres to housing first principles.

Tags: assessment-- case study-- housed neighbors-- implementation-- NIMBYism-- PSH

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

Housing First and Access to Housing

CSH explanation of housing first and how to quickly move people into housing.

Tags: definition-- housing first-- implementation

Housing First

Homeless Hub definition of housing first.

Tags: definition-- housing first

Housing and Urban Development–Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Vouchers and Veterans’ Homelessness, 2007–2017

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…

Tags: HUD-- panel study-- PSH-- scholarly-- supportive housing-- veterans

Housing and Education Collaborations to Serve Homeless Children, Youth, and Families

This brief is designed for staff of homeless assistance programs and members of Continuums of Care (CoCs) funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as well as for State Coordinators for Homeless Education and local…

Tags: children-- cross-system collaboration-- family homelessness-- mckinney-vento-- youth

Hotels as noncongregate emergency shelters: An analysis of investments in hotels as emergency shelter in King County, Washington during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This study analyzes the COVID-19 homelessness response in King County, Washington, in which people were moved out of high-density emergency shelters into hotel rooms. This intervention was part of a regional effort to de-intensify the shelter system…

Tags: COVID-19-- emergency shelter-- hotel shelter-- King County WA-- motel shelter-- scholarly-- shelter type

Homeless System Response: Qualitative Data 101

Brief definition/ introduction to qualitative data. Helpful for those who are totally new to research.

Tags: data-- definition-- qualitative data

Homeless System Response: Planning a Housing Surge to Accelerate Rehousing Efforts in Response to COVID-19

As part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and in response to COVID-19, many communities will receive significant new allocations of Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funds that can be used to quickly rehouse individuals…

Tags: implementation-- rapid rehousing

Homeless System Response: High Acuity: Transition from Short-term to Long-term Subsidy

Short document offering advice on how to help client who indicate they want to move from short term rent assistance/programs to long term rent assistance/programs

Tags: case management-- implementation-- PSH-- rapid rehousing

Homeless services terminology

Short glossary. Does not include all possible terms.

Tags: definition-- HMIS

Homeless Services Governance: A Comparison of Local Government Coordination and Service Provision Efforts in Four Continua of Care

This resource compares homeless service structures by looking at case-studies in NYC, Houston, Seattle and LA, examining their framework and approach. It also discusses race equity structures and lived experience governance.

Tags: case study-- CoC-- government-- Houston TX-- Los Angeles County CA-- New York City NY-- racial disparities-- Seattle, WA

Homeless Hub

A leading source of research on homelessness in Canada, with a library of more than 30,000 resources.

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