This toolkit outlines the essential components for supportive housing services and programs for people living with mental illness disorders. It discusses how to develop and integrate evidence-based programs in mental health systems. The toolkit…
Objectives: A standard approach to treating homeless persons with a disability is called Treatment First, requiring clients be “housing ready”—that is, in psychiatric treatment and substance-free—before and while receiving permanent housing. A more…
Introduction: The annual economic burden of chronic homelessness in the U.S. is estimated to be as high as $3.4 billion. The Permanent Supportive Housing with Housing First (Housing First) program, implemented to address the problem, has been shown…
Objectives:Permanent supportive housing provides safe, stable housing for people with mental and substance use disorders who are homeless or disabled. This article describes permanent supportive housing and reviews research.
Methods:Authors reviewed…
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…
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).
This report details the outcomes and insights from Atlohsa’s Indigenous-Led Approach to Care & Advocacy (ILACA) initiative. It explores how culturally grounded, community-driven solutions support Indigenous individuals experiencing homelessness,…
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 Topic Brief reviews: who experiences pregnancy during homelessness, how they lost their housing, experiences during homelessness, barriers to regaining housing. The findings highlight the urgent need for the homelessness system to advance…
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…
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…
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,…
