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Improving Street Outreach as a Community Learning Series

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…

Tags: community engagement-- outreach-- paywall-- systems design-- training-- video

Improving Street Outreach as a Community Learning Series

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…

Tags: outreach-- paywall-- training-- video

Impact of Hotels as Non Congregate Emergency Shelters

This study used a mixed methods approach to understand the effects and outcomes on individuals who were moved to non-congregate hotel settings, and the research team worked closely with provider agencies to complete the study. The findings establish…

Tags: COVID-19-- emergency shelter-- hotel shelter-- King County WA-- mixed methods-- motel shelter

HUD's Definition of Homelessness: Resources and Guidance

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…

Tags: definition-- homelessness-- HUD

How to House the Homeless

Collection of essays/articles about homelessness; range of topics including preventing homelessness, serving people experiencing homelessness, reforms and policy.

Tags: book-- cost-- housing first-- policy-- scholarly

How Communities Are Responding to Vehicular Homelessness

This report provides an overview of vehicular homelessness—the definition, drivers, data, and community responses, which include criminalization as well as services like so-called safe parking programs. It is based on several sources, such as key…

Tags: safe park-- unsheltered homelessness

Housing Programs for Homeless Individuals With Mental Illness: Effects on Housing and Mental Health Outcomes

This systematic review analyzed the best available research in the United States on permanent supportive housing programs for homeless individuals with mental illness and the effect of these programs on housing status and mental health. It updates…

Tags: health-- mental illness-- PSH-- scholarly-- systemic review

Housing not Handcuffs 2019: Ending the Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities.

This report provides an overview of laws in effect across the country that punish homelessness. They examined the city codes of 187 urban and rural cities across the country. In addition to the survey of policies in force across the country, this…

Tags: cost-- criminalization of homelessness-- policy

Housing Needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives in Urban Areas: A Report From the Assessment of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Housing Needs

This study investigated issues related to housing among low-income American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIANs) living in urban areas. Methods included interviews with staff from social service organizations serving Native Americans in 24 sampled…

Tags: housing needs-- native american/alaska native/indigenous

Housing Matters, Services Might: Findings from the High Needs Families Program Evaluation

Permanent supportive housing for families experiencing homelessness—typically, subsidized housing that is not time limited and provides access to a range of support services—has substantially increased over the past 10 years, despite an absence of…

Tags: children-- family homelessness-- open access-- PSH-- scholarly-- supportive housing

Housing Justice Hub

Collection of resources from the Urban Institute addressing housing justice.

Tags: additional resources-- racial disparities-- racial equity

Housing First: The Pathways Model to End Homelessness for People With Mental Illness and Addiction

This manual explains phf practices in detail, including staffing patterns, finances, and operations. By laying bare the program, we hope that administrators, advocates, policy makers, educators, and others may find it useful for implementing (or…

Tags: housing first-- implementation-- pathways to housing-- PSH-- scholarly

Housing First: Q&A

NLIHC factsheet about housing first, includes a brief definition and answers to common questions.

Tags: advocacy-- definition-- housing first

Housing First, Cultural Competence and Ethno-Racial Communities

The Toronto Housing First (At Home/Chez Soi) Ethno-Racial Intensive Case Management (HF ER ICM) project[1] delivers Housing First ensuring culturally based options for ethno-racial groups experiencing homelessness. We relied on the lessons learned…

Tags: at home/chez soi-- Canada-- housing first-- racial equity

Housing First, Consumer Choice, and Harm Reduction for Homeless Individuals With a Dual Diagnosis

Objectives. We examined the longitudinal effects of a Housing First program for homeless, mentally ill individuals’ on those individuals’ consumer choice, housing stability, substance use, treatment utilization, and psychiatric symptoms. Methods. Two…

Tags: housing first-- open access-- pathways to housing-- PSH-- randomized control trial-- scholarly-- supportive housing

Housing First, But What Comes Second? A Qualitative Study Of Resident, Staff And Management Perspectives On Single-Site Housing First Program Enhancement

Single-site Housing First (HF) is associated with reduced publicly funded service utilization and costs and alcohol-related harm for chronically homeless individuals with severe alcohol problems. Many residents,however, continue to experience…

Tags: housing first-- qualitative-- scholarly-- Seattle WA-- single-site-- substance use disorder

Browse Items (236 total)

Improving Street Outreach as a Community Learning Series

Improving Street Outreach as a Community Learning Series

Impact of Hotels as Non Congregate Emergency Shelters

HUD's Definition of Homelessness: Resources and Guidance

How to House the Homeless

How Communities Are Responding to Vehicular Homelessness

Housing Programs for Homeless Individuals With Mental Illness: Effects on Housing and Mental Health Outcomes

Housing not Handcuffs 2019: Ending the Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities.

Housing Needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives in Urban Areas: A Report From the Assessment of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Housing Needs

Housing Matters, Services Might: Findings from the High Needs Families Program Evaluation

Housing Justice Hub

Housing First: The Pathways Model to End Homelessness for People With Mental Illness and Addiction

Housing First: Q&A

Housing First, Cultural Competence and Ethno-Racial Communities

Housing First, Consumer Choice, and Harm Reduction for Homeless Individuals With a Dual Diagnosis

Housing First, But What Comes Second? A Qualitative Study Of Resident, Staff And Management Perspectives On Single-Site Housing First Program Enhancement

Housing First programs in congregate-site facilities: can one size fit all?

Housing First in Permanent Supportive Housing

Housing First Fact Sheet

Housing First Checklist: Assessing Projects and Systems for a Housing First Orientation