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

Collection of podcasts from C4 Innovations, all of which address their work on homelessness, many of which center racial equity.

Call to action around fighting for housing first, with accompanying myth-busting/reminders that serve as a more advanced and nuanced description of what Housing First is.

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 is a page hosted by the National Alliance to End Homelessness that lists many different resources on racial equity in the homelessness services system.

Supercharge your outreach through community partnerships. Persons living unsheltered are especially vulnerable. Learn how to reach them, build a system-level strategy, and get some partners.

Courses in this series cover:
Strategies for outreach…

Housed people aren't homeless. Learn how to apply effective strategies for housing individuals and families. Your goals in this course will be to learn how to learn how to implement a Housing First approach in your own work and in your program or…

Helpful definition and summary of what a CoC actually is.

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OPB article describing a new program Los Angeles is piloting to try to identify individuals who are at high risk of becoming homeless and prevent them from becoming homelessness, using machine learning and inputs from other county datasets.

Homeless Hub definition of housing first.

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Community solutions definition of Housing First.

Visualization and links to external studies that provide evidence for and against housing first.

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

NHCHC definition of permanent supportive housing.

Brief guide for helping tenants search for housing (intended for scattered-site PSH operators, case managers).

CSH definition of supportive housing.

A Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) is the information system designated by a local Continuum of Care (CoC) to comply with the requirements of CoC Program interim rule 24 CFR 578. It is a locally implemented data system used to record and…

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This listserv reviews existing resources related to HUD’s definition of homelessness and provides important reminders when documenting someone’s homeless status. Additionally, it announces the availability of a new resource to help intake workers…

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HUD guide to rapid re-housing.

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…