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Healthy Aging in Supportive Housing: Toolkit for service providers, developers, and property managers

Implementation guide for designing supportive housing programs that will serve seniors.

Tags: implementation-- older adults and seniors-- PSH

Healthy Parents, Healthy Babies

Recommendations developed by people with lived experience of homelessness and extreme housing instability when pregnant focusing on how to improve birth, health, housing, and other outcomes for pregnant people, parents, and their children.

Tags: children-- family homelessness-- pregnancy-- youth

Historical Context of Racist Planning: A History of how Planning Segregated Portland

Historical Context of Racist Planning: A history of how planning segregated Portland is a review of racist planning practices in Portland. This systemic discrimination, which was also practiced nationwide and goes back to the origins of our country,…

Tags: history-- housing-- planning-- Portland OR

Homeless Assistance: McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Programs

Explanation of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Programs

Tags: CoC-- funding-- government-- HUD

Homeless Deaths Count

Homeless Deaths Count is a community effort to collect comprehensive data on mortality among people experiencing homelessness across the United States.

Tags: data-- health-- mortality

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 services terminology

Short glossary. Does not include all possible terms.

Tags: definition-- HMIS

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 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

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

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

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 First

Homeless Hub definition of housing first.

Tags: definition-- housing first

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 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

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