Trauma-Informed Housing: An Approach to Empower Residents in Affordable Housing Design, Services, and Management

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 has developed a toolkit to share the framework with other housing providers. The Urban Institute is partnering with POAH to assess their implementation of this approach. In May of 2023, Urban and POAH hosted a roundtable with affordable-housing stakeholders that highlighted the work of POAH and their partner organizations, who are leading the push for trauma-informed approaches in affordable housing policy and practice.

Building on the roundtable, this project tells the story of the need for trauma-informed approaches to affordable housing in the US, explores POAH’s trauma-informed housing framework and the ongoing work of other leaders in the field, and recommends steps that housing providers, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and other stakeholders can take to make trauma-informed housing the standard for affordable housing.

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Brief

Morgan, A., Kort, A., Dayal, J., Stuart-Lomax, J., Popkin, S. J., Ta, J., Kenney, R., & Lastowka L. (2024, February 29). Trauma-Informed Housing. Urban Institute. https://www.urban.org/apps/trauma-informed-housing