Rapid re-housing has become a large component of the response to homelessness in communities across the country. To date, no studies have found anything conclusive on variations in outcomes resulting from differences in program implementation or…
This document provides details on using the performance benchmarks detailed in the Rapid Re-Housing Performance Benchmarks and Program Standards to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of rapid re-housing practice, both in individual programs and…
People of color or mixed race account for more than half of all people experiencing homelessness, despite comprising less than a quarter of the total population in the United States. What are the primary drivers of this severe racial concentration of…
Review of quantitative and qualitative descriptions of racial inequities in homelessness and housing access; legal and procedural justice factors involved. Created on behalf of UN-initiated broader human rights audit of US policy and practice,…
This study examines racial inequities and homelessness in the United States through mixed methods research in eight communities. We compare the race and ethnicity of those experiencing homelessness to the general population and to people in poverty,…
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.
This webpage hosts a flowchart intended as a starting place for providers to examine racial equity in their emergency shelter, as well as a video detailing how to use the flowchart.
Webpage, flowchart, and video intended as a starting point for thinking about where biases and racial inequity might occur in the coordinated entry system.
In this learning brief, Community Solutions explores the existing evidence on racial disparities in rental debt, and how homeless response leaders might tackle or consider rental debt in their strategies to prevent or reduce homelessness.
Over 2.5 million people experience homelessness yearly in the United States. Black persons are overrepresented by three-fold among those experiencing homelessness but little research has examined the relationship between race and homelessness. We…
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,…
The need for outreach to people living unsheltered multiplied, accompanied by COVID-related funding that brought many new outreach personnel into the workforce. Simultaneous to this increase in unsheltered homelessness has been a growing need for…
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…
Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, homelessness was a massive social crisis, starkly manifesting racial disparities in housing and health. With an unprecedented public health emergency now at hand, it is crucial that cities figure out how to more…
This resources discusses how outreach staff can use the relationship between a person experiencing homelessness and their pet to better serve the human (and to serve the pet).
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…
