This toolkit is an actionable guide to support Continuums of Care (CoCs), direct service providers, and other homelessness system partners to lower barriers and increase housing access for people impacted by the Criminal Justice System. These…
This webinar honors Second Chance Month with a presentation and discussion on building partnerships between Continuums of Care (CoCs) and criminal justice (CJ) system stakeholders. It features a panel of system leaders, people with lived experience,…
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…
This learning brief synthesizes evidence regarding inflow from incarceration into homelessness and outlines the unique housing challenges people experience after incarceration. It also highlights promising practices and findings from evaluations of…
Tool designed to guide communities as they evaluate criminal background screenings in their community and assess the effect such screenings may have on justice system-involved individuals who are trying to get housing.
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…
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…
