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A Housing First Assessment Taskforce was created by the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness to provide recommendations of screening tools for communities to use. The Taskforce included researchers with extensive experience with measures relevant to…

Tags: coordinated entry-- systems design-- VI-SPDAT

The Ghosts of Housing Discrimination Reach Beyond Redlining

explanation of historic and current racism in housing.

Tags: history-- housing discrimination-- racial disparities-- systems design

Caring for Patients Experiencing Houselessness

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…

Tags: health-- healthcare

Race and retention in permanent supportive housing: a secondary analysis of housing outcomes

Despite the overrepresentation of People of Color among people experiencing homelessness and ongoing housing discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities, research has paid scant attention to the intersections of race and homelessness,…

Tags: PSH-- racial equity-- scholarly-- veterans

Permanent Supportive Housing With Housing First to Reduce Homelessness and Promote Health Among Homeless Populations With Disability: A Community Guide Systematic Review

Objectives: A standard approach to treating homeless persons with a disability is called Treatment First, requiring clients be “housing ready”—that is, in psychiatric treatment and substance-free—before and while receiving permanent housing. A more…

Tags: disability-- health-- HIV/AIDS-- housing first-- mental illness-- open access-- PSH-- review-- scholarly-- substance use disorder

Best Practices for Culturally and Spiritually Centred Care in Housing Services

Throughout February and March 2025, the Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network hosted 4 Community of Practice (CoP) calls focused on how gender-sensitive spiritual and culturally appropriate care can be incorporated in the housing and…

Tags: culturally specific care-- video-- webinar-- women

Persistent Disparities: Trends in Rates of Sheltered Homelessness Across Demographic Subgroups in the USA

Novel methodology for estimating demographics of shelter-accessing populations – HUD aggregate data over year and over nation, derived from Annual Homeless Assessment Report (as opposed to PIT data.) Pertinent results: racial disparities in…

Tags: data-- HUD-- racial disparities-- scholarly

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

Journey to Reconciliation: Indigenous Homelessness Prevention

In this webinar, researchers Dr. Cathy Fournier and Cohen Pinkoski discuss the Journey to Reconciliation project. The project explores the experiences of Indigenous Peoples who have experienced being unhoused in the past or currently, as well as the…

Tags: Canada-- lived experience-- native american/alaska native/indigenous-- video-- webinar

Just Cause Eviction Laws: Two Case Studies

This publication highlights two successful efforts to pass just cause protections – one in Oregon and the other in Washington State. The case study is part of NLIHC’s State and Local Tenant Protection Series: A Primer on Renters’ Rights, a collection…

Tags: case study-- eviction-- Oregon-- policy-- Washington

Moving from rhetoric to reality: adapting Housing First for homeless individuals with mental illness from ethno-racial groups

Background: The literature on interventions addressing the intersection of homelessness, mental illness and race is scant. The At Home/Chez Soi research demonstration project is a pragmatic field trial investigating a Housing First intervention for…

Tags: at home/chez soi-- culturally specific care-- housing first-- open access-- PSH-- racial equity-- scholarly

Permanent Supportive Housing With Housing First: Findings From a Community Guide Systematic Economic Review

Introduction: The annual economic burden of chronic homelessness in the U.S. is estimated to be as high as $3.4 billion. The Permanent Supportive Housing with Housing First (Housing First) program, implemented to address the problem, has been shown…

Tags: cost-- economic review-- housing first-- PSH-- scholarly