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FAQ answering whether supportive housing is cost effective (more expensive than a traditional shelter system).

28 pg guidebook that attempts to describe standards for quality supportive housing across four components: project planning and administration, property and housing management, supportive housing services, community.

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Explains the key characteristics of housing first, as applied to PSH models.

FUSE is a signature initiative of CSH that helps communities break the cycle of homelessness and crises among individuals with complex medical and behavioral health challenges. These individuals have frequent touches with emergency departments,…

Factsheet summary of UID 1007, an extended narrative report. Review of: quantitative and qualitative descriptions of racial inequities in homelessness and housing access; legal and procedural justice factors involved. (Description taken from key…

This article discusses the unique but often concurrent issues of homelessness and food insecurity in America and considers how agricultural tiny home communities could be developed to address these problems. Examples of existing tiny home communities…

Across the United States, tiny house villages are increasingly appearing as a method of addressing homelessness. There has been no formal or sustained effort to document tiny house villages for the homeless, however. This research involves the…

Homelessness is increasingly being addressed with tiny house villages. These developments face barriers, the greatest of which is NIMBYism (Not-in-my-backyard sentiment) (Evans, 2021). Through a stakeholder survey, this research examines community…

Part 1 provides Point-in-Time (PIT) estimates, offering a snapshot of homelessness—both sheltered and unsheltered—on a single night. The PIT counts also provide an estimate of the number of people experiencing homelessness within particular…

Report of Project Turnkey including what the project addresses, project results, project snapshots, opportunities for improvement. (Description taken from key Abstract information)

This report identifies key opportunities to realize priorities as identified by key local stakeholder engagement and best practices research across Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties through new ways of organizing and expanding the work of…

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…

Helpful definition of what "homeless response system" and "continuum of care" mean.

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In this interactive 1-hour webinar, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) will provide a brief overview of USICH’s recently released “19 Strategies for Communities to Address Encampments Humanely and Effectively,” followed by a…

Training course on trauma-informed outreach and engagement.

Training course on basics of housing models, housing navigation, and engagement.

This Learning Community will cover the fundamentals of trauma-informed care and best practices for outreach to and engagement with individuals experiencing homelessness who have a serious mental illness (SMI), serious emotional disturbance (SED),…

In 2022, the City of Denver launched the Housing to Health Pay for Success project. The project provides supportive housing to people experiencing chronic homelessness and high rates of arrest and who are at high risk for avoidable and high-cost…

explanation from HUD of what the CoC program is.

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