Evidence-Based Policy and Practice Approaches to Addressing Homelessness in the United States
Webinar
Mar 5, 2025
The 2024 rate of U.S. homelessness increased by 18% over the previous year, with a 39% rise in families experiencing homelessness.
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Mar 5, 2025
The 2024 rate of U.S. homelessness increased by 18% over the previous year, with a 39% rise in families experiencing homelessness. According to an annual survey conducted in communities across the country, more than 770,000 people were living in shelters or outside—the largest number since the report was initiated in 2007. Our panelists will provide historical context for homelessness in the United States, as well as research findings on the effectiveness of various policy and practice approaches to decreasing homelessness and supporting unhoused families and individuals.
Cindy I-Fen Cheng, Robinson Edwards Professor of American History and Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Katherine Levine Einstein, Associate Professor of Political Science, Boston University
David Phillips, Research Professor of Economics, Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities, University of Notre Dame
Topics: Homelessness, Housing
Shared by Housing Is
on Mar 31, 2025
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Community:
Jan 14, 2025
The Help Me Grow National Center (HMG) conducted a year-long Goal Concordant Care Study to explore how aligning early childhood system support with families’ goals can not only prevent negative outcomes for young children, but also help them thrive. HMG Orange County, California was one of three HMG systems in the study that tested the impact of integrating motivational interviewing as a strategy to elicit, document and share parent’s goals as a systematic enhancement to their HMG Centralized Access Point work. In this new blog post, HMG Orange County provides an inside look at their experience testing motivational interviewing, the challenges they encountered along the way and the impact this work has had on their support to families with young children. Read the blog here, and share.
Topics: Advocacy, Data sharing, Research
Shared by Housing Is
on Jan 29, 2025
Helping Families Thrive: The Help Me Grow Goal Concordant Care Study Through the Lens of the Centralized Access
News Article
Jan 14, 2025
The Help Me Grow National Center (HMG) conducted a year-long Goal Concordant Care Study to explore how aligning early childhood system support with families’ goals can not only prevent negative outcomes for young children, but also help them thrive.
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Community:
Jan 15, 2025
Chapin Hall developed a new strategic framework “Meeting Family Needs: A Multi-System Framework for Family and Child Wellbeing.” The framework stands as an essential tool to help develop an integrated and holistic child and family well-being system which supports families facing adversity and empowers them to thrive. It provides both a vision of this system, and practical steps to get there, along with dozens of programmatic examples from across the country, descriptions of approaches toward applying the framework and a complete list of references. Find it here.
Topics: Data sharing
Shared by Housing Is
on Jan 29, 2025
Framework Centers Meeting Family Needs, Preventing Child Welfare Involvement
News Article
Jan 15, 2025
Chapin Hall developed a new strategic framework “Meeting Family Needs: A Multi-System Framework for Family and Child Wellbeing.” The framework stands as an essential tool to help develop an integrated and holistic child and family well-being system which supports families facing adversity and empowe
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Community:
Jan 15, 2025
The Center for American Progress (CAP) is sharing three new fact sheets for 2025 in its ongoing series, “A Guide to Workplace Leave Laws in the United States.” These 2025 editions provide an overview of the state of play at the local, state and federal levels. The CAP resources are as follows below:
Topics: Research
Shared by Housing Is
on Jan 29, 2025
The State of Paid Family and Medical Leave in the U.S. in 2025
News Article
Jan 15, 2025
The Center for American Progress (CAP) is sharing three new fact sheets for 2025 in its ongoing series, “A Guide to Workplace Leave Laws in the United States.” These 2025 editions provide an overview of the state of play at the local, state and federal levels.
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Oct 1, 2024
Topics: Housing Is Working Group
Shared by Kirsten Greenwell
on Oct 1, 2024
Housing Is Working Group Event Calendar 2024-2025
Webinar
Oct 1, 2024
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Community:
Nov 14, 2023
This webinar includes a discussion about innovations in trauma-informed approaches to housing from expert speakers. We heard from Julianna Stuart-Lomax presenting about the POAH Trauma-Informed Housing Toolkit and their work in this area. Chad Holtzinger, president of Shopworks Architecture and partner of the Denver Housing Authority, discussed PHA trauma-informed practices at their Thrive project.
Topics: Healthy homes, Housing Is Working Group, Mental health
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter
on Nov 15, 2023
Housing Is Working Group: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Housing Webinar
Webinar
Nov 14, 2023
This webinar includes a discussion about innovations in trauma-informed approaches to housing from expert speakers. We heard from Julianna Stuart-Lomax presenting about the POAH Trauma-Informed Housing Toolkit and their work in this area.
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Sep 12, 2023
Topics: Asthma, Healthy homes, Housing, Housing Is Working Group, Mental health, Mobility
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter
on Sep 13, 2023
Housing Is Working Group: Insights from the Mobility Asthma Project
Webinar
Sep 12, 2023
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Sep 12, 2023
This webinar will describe new research that shows children whose families participated in a program that helped them move from distressed neighborhoods to areas with lower rates of poverty experienced significant improvements in severe asthma episodes. Before moving, for every 100 children, there were approximately 88 severe asthma attacks per year. After moving, there were approximately 40 severe attacks per year, a reduction of more than 50%. The webinar will explore factors that help explain these changes in asthma, including the critical role of neighborhood-related stress, and describes future direction and pilot programs.
The publication can be found in the Journal of the American Medical Association here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2804823
Topics: Asthma, Healthy homes, Housing, Mental health, Mobility
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter
on Sep 13, 2023
Housing Is Working Group: Insights from the Mobility Asthma Project
Webinar
Sep 12, 2023
This webinar will describe new research that shows children whose families participated in a program that helped them move from distressed neighborhoods to areas with lower rates of poverty experienced significant improvements in severe asthma episodes.
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Community:
Aug 8, 2023
Building and maintaining effective community partnerships is a critical component of health center management and community involvement. Local partners help integrate important stakeholders into organizational processes and empower health centers to better understand and care for the communities they serve. But can health centers design and evaluate their partnerships? In this webinar, we reviewed tools and procedures for designing, evaluating, and strengthening community partnerships with a focus on pragmatic, practical and innovative solutions.
Topics: Health, Housing, Partnerships
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter
on Aug 8, 2023
Building Value and ROI in Housing and Health Partnerships
Webinar
Aug 8, 2023
Building and maintaining effective community partnerships is a critical component of health center management and community involvement.
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May 24, 2023
The unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement represents the largest nationwide coverage transition since the Affordable Care Act, with significant health equity implications. As states restart eligibility redeterminations, millions of Medicaid enrollees will be at risk of losing their coverage with some portion exiting because they are no longer eligible, some losing coverage due to administrative challenges despite continued eligibility, and some transitioning to another source of coverage. Given the intense focus on coverage transitions during the unwinding, some states have initiated plans to publish a data dashboard to monitor progress. Data dashboards are useful for publishing dynamic data that is in high demand. They allow states to make proactive decisions about what data to release and on what schedule and then organize that data in an easy-to-digest visual format that facilitates the interpretation of key trends and patterns at a glance.
Topics: Affordable Care Act, Data sharing, Medicaid / Medicare
Shared by Sandra Ware
on May 25, 2023
State Dashboards to Monitor the Unwinding of the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement
Infographics
May 24, 2023
The unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement represents the largest nationwide coverage transition since the Affordable Care Act, with significant health equity implications.
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Community:
Apr 26, 2023
Partnerships across housing, transportation, aging and disability, and health are essential to ensure housing stability. Transportation is necessary for community living. With transportation assistance, many older adults and people with disabilities can shop for groceries, get to medical appointments, stay connected and engaged, and otherwise access everyday locations and participate in their community.
Partnering to help people connect to transportation options is therefore a critical component of making community living possible.
This webinar:
Highlights effective pathways for creating cross-sector collaborations with public transportation as a key partner to improve housing stability.
Builds awareness of technical assistance resources to strengthen partnership development, including an online tool that identifies possible community transportation partners.
Answers participants’ questions about forming effective cross-sector partnerships to address housing stability through transportation access.
Topics: Transportation
Shared by Malcolm Guy
on Apr 26, 2023
The Role of Transportation in Cross-Sector Collaborations to Improve Housing Stability
Webinar
Apr 26, 2023
Partnerships across housing, transportation, aging and disability, and health are essential to ensure housing stability. Transportation is necessary for community living.
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Apr 13, 2023
Please join us for a time to hear from PHA leaders and industry professionals on key cross-sector topics of interest. This month will focus on strategies for working with your health department including presentations from those in the field and tips from your fellow PHAs already doing the work.
Topics: Health, Housing Is Working Group, Medicaid / Medicare, Partnerships
Shared by Sandra Ware
on Apr 13, 2023
HousingIs Working Group Webinar: How to Work with Your Health Department
Webinar
Apr 13, 2023
Please join us for a time to hear from PHA leaders and industry professionals on key cross-sector topics of interest. This month will focus on strategies for working with your health department including presentations from those in the field and tips from your fellow PHAs already doing the work.
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Apr 11, 2023
CLPHA and the U.S. Department of Energy hosted a webinar to provide PHAs with an overview of climate resiliency funds now available through the Office of State and Community Energy Programs. Dr. Henry McKoy joined the webinar and gave details on applying for various environmental resiliency funds now available.
Topics: Environmental Resiliency/Climate Change, Green, Sustainability
Shared by Malcolm Guy
on Apr 11, 2023
Climate Resiliency Funding from the Dept. of Energy
Webinar
Apr 11, 2023
CLPHA and the U.S. Department of Energy hosted a webinar to provide PHAs with an overview of climate resiliency funds now available through the Office of State and Community Energy Programs. Dr.
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Community:
Nov 8, 2022
On October 13, 2022, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra extended the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, effective through January 11, 2023. While when the Public Health Emergency will end is still unknown, when it does, state Medicaid and CHIP plans will begin reassessing the eligibility of all recipients to confirm they still meet the eligibility requirements (“redetermination”).
At the Housing Is Working Group webinar on November 8, 2022, we heard from UnitedHealthcare about the important actions needed to ensure individuals retain their Medicaid enrollment and how PHA staff can support residents in this process. This presentation is plan agnostic and the goal is to ensure Americans retain their Medicaid coverage regardless of the healthcare plan that serves them. This webinar is open to all interested attendees!
Topics: Health, Housing Is Working Group, Medicaid / Medicare
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter
on Nov 8, 2022
Housing Is Working Group: Medicaid Redetermination at the End of the COVID PHE
Webinar
Nov 8, 2022
On October 13, 2022, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra extended the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, effective through January 11, 2023.
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Sep 13, 2022
View this webinar to learn more about actions public housing authorities can take to promote environmental resiliency in their communities. We first heard from Natalie Hildt Treat, senior policy advisor for Building Electrification Initiative at Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM). Treat discussed NESCAUM’s efforts in the field of environmental resiliency, including her work helping states harness the power of clean, efficient electric building technologies to meet their climate and air quality goals. Next, we heard a case study about how the Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers (MHACY) has worked with their partner, Groundwork Hudson Valley, to incorporate environmental resiliency into their neighborhoods. Wilson Kimball, president and CEO of MHACY, and Brigitte Griswold, executive director of Groundwork Hudson Valley, shared how their partnership has leveraged data to understand the most vulnerable areas in their communities and address flooding and urban heat concerns.
Topics: Energy, Environmental Resiliency/Climate Change, Green, Healthy homes, Housing Is Working Group, Sustainability
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter
on Sep 14, 2022
Housing Is Environmental Resiliency Webinar
Webinar
Sep 13, 2022
View this webinar to learn more about actions public housing authorities can take to promote environmental resiliency in their communities.
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Feb 8, 2022
The Housing Is team will be joined by staff from the Department of Education and Department of Housing and Urban Development to discuss evaluation considerations and best practices when evaluating multi-sector, community-based interventions such as the Promise and Choice Neighborhoods Initiatives. They will examine how they chose outcomes to track and how they set goals for the Promise and Choice Neighborhood Initiatives. They will also reflect on evaluation design considerations for these multifaceted programs.
Topics: Data sharing, Education, Metrics
Shared by Stephanie Gray
on Apr 18, 2022
Webinar Recording: Evaluation and Metrics, Lessons Learned from Promise and Choice Neighborhoods.
Webinar
Feb 8, 2022
The Housing Is team will be joined by staff from the Department of Education and Department of Housing and Urban Development to discuss evaluation considerations and best practices when evaluating multi-sector, community-based interventions such as the Promise and Choice Neighborhoods Initiatives.
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Jan 6, 2020
Scope of Practice article on the American Medical Association's website
Topics: Cost effectiveness, Health
Shared by Camille Anoll-Hunter
on Aug 26, 2021
How community health workers can help improve outcomes, cut costs
News Article
Jan 6, 2020
Scope of Practice article on the American Medical Association's website
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Jul 30, 2021
This webinar encouraged HUD staff and stakeholders to learn how public health data sharing agreements can better inform on-the-ground vaccine efforts.
Topics: COVID-19, Data sharing, Health
Shared by Kirsten Greenwell
on Jul 30, 2021
Cracking the Code: How Public Health Data Can Boost your Vaccine Efforts
Webinar
Jul 30, 2021
This webinar encouraged HUD staff and stakeholders to learn how public health data sharing agreements can better inform on-the-ground vaccine efforts.
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Community: Youth
Feb 1, 2018
Chicago’s troubling homicide rate could be significantly reduced through a massive increase in state spending for Chicago schools. That's just one of the proposals floated Monday by a prominent University of Chicago economist Jens Ludwig. With a substantial commitment, he says homicides could be reduced by nearly 60 percent. Illinois is dead last when it comes to the percentage of education dollars provided by the state to its cities. Ludwig believes adding $1.7 billion dollars would not only bring Illinois up to the national average, but could substantially reduce gun violence as well. Given the social science evidence on the link between high school graduation and gun violence, that would be about a 30 percent decrease in the homicide rates in the city of Chicago for something that has absolutely nothing to do with the city of Chicago policies.
Topics: Child welfare, Community development, Education, Funding, Legislation & Policy, Preventative care, Youth
Shared by Housing Is
on Oct 15, 2020
Economist: Giving more money to Chicago schools could significantly reduce violence
News Article
Feb 1, 2018
Chicago’s troubling homicide rate could be significantly reduced through a massive increase in state spending for Chicago schools. That's just one of the proposals floated Monday by a prominent University of Chicago economist Jens Ludwig.
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Community: Youth
Jun 29, 2017
One Summer Chicago Plus is a jobs program designed to reduce violence and prepare youth living in some of the city’s highest-violence neighborhoods for the labor market. This study was carried out over the summer of 2013 in partnership with the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services. It found that the program, which provided a six-week, minimum-wage job for 25 hours a week, reduced the number of violent-crime arrests for participants by 33 percent over the subsequent year. The One Summer Chicago Plus 2013 study—accompanied by a long-term follow-up of the 2012 program—closely examines the two to three years following the six-week program and finds that the reduction in violent-crime arrests is not driven simply by keeping participants off the streets during the summer. In fact, the decline in violence remains significant when the summer is ignored entirely.
Researchers did find, however, that the program had no significant impacts on schooling outcomes or engagement, nor did it have a positive impact on formal labor sector employment for all of the participants after the fact. The authors do note that it is possible that significant labor market effects will develop past the three-year window examined in the study.
Topics: Child welfare, Community development, Criminal justice, Out-of-school time, Partnerships, Preventative care, Safety, Youth
Shared by Housing Is
on Oct 15, 2020
Chicago jobs program reduces youth violence, Urban Labs study shows
News Article
Jun 29, 2017
One Summer Chicago Plus is a jobs program designed to reduce violence and prepare youth living in some of the city’s highest-violence neighborhoods for the labor market. This study was carried out over the summer of 2013 in partnership with the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services.
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Feb 12, 2020
A discussion with attorney Alex Elson from the National Student Legal Defense Network and director of FAIL STATE, Alex Shebanow, to talk about predatory for-profit institutions and how that affects low income residents.
About the film:
Over five years in the making, FAIL STATE investigates the for-profit college industry and the decades-long reports of student loan abuse within the sector. The film’s central thesis: aided by a cabal of politicians, nationwide disinvestment in public colleges and universities, and an unscrupulous desire to maximize profits at all costs, for-profit colleges have exploited millions of low-income and minority students, leaving them with worthless degrees and drowning in student loan debt. With echoes of the subprime mortgage crisis, director Alexander Shebanow traces the rise of the for-profit college industry in American higher education and uncovers a story that the Los Angeles Times calls “truly eye-opening and crucial.” The film premiered to sold-out shows at DOC NYC, SXSW EDU, Cleveland International, and debuted on STARZ in December 2018. Director Alexander Shebanow and Executive Producer Dan Rather were awarded the 2019 William Randolph Hearst Award for Outstanding Professional Media Service for their work on FAIL STATE.
Topics: Advocacy, CLPHA, Education, Housing Is Working Group, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Post-secondary
Shared by Abra Lyons-Warren
on Feb 12, 2020
CLPHA Education Working Group: Predatory PostSecondary Institutions Webinar
Webinar
Feb 12, 2020
A discussion with attorney Alex Elson from the National Student Legal Defense Network and director of FAIL STATE, Alex Shebanow, to talk about predatory for-profit institutions and how that affects low income residents.
About the film:
Over five years in the making, FAIL STATE investigates the fo
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Community:
Jun 12, 2019
About half of the student body at one Ohio elementary school has witnessed drug use at home. Educators spend time every day teaching the children how to cope.
Topics: Child welfare, Early childhood, Education, Health, Substance abuse, Youth
Shared by Housing Is
on Jun 13, 2019
Inside the Elementary School Where Drug Addiction Sets the Curriculum
News Article
Jun 12, 2019
About half of the student body at one Ohio elementary school has witnessed drug use at home. Educators spend time every day teaching the children how to cope.
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Jun 10, 2019
More than a half million renters have been evicted in Los Angeles County over the past eight years, according to a new report by Public Counsel and the UCLA School of Law that calls on county supervisors to adopt permanent rent control measures.
Topics: Homelessness, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Research, West Coast
Shared by Housing Is
on Jun 13, 2019
New report underscores link between 'shocking' number of evictions, homelessness
News Article
Jun 10, 2019
More than a half million renters have been evicted in Los Angeles County over the past eight years, according to a new report by Public Counsel and the UCLA School of Law that calls on county supervisors to adopt permanent rent control measures.
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Jun 11, 2019
CLPHA’s Education Working Group convened on Tuesday, June 11 to learn about one of the Housing Authority of Kansas City’s (HAKC) newest housing communities: Pemberton Park, a subsidized apartment building that serves grandparents caring for grandchildren. Representatives from HAKC and their partners discussed the process of establishing the grand-family complex, as well as challenges and successes they experienced along the way.
Topics: Education, Family engagement, Housing, Housing Is Working Group, Low-income, Partnerships, Seniors, Youth
Shared by Housing Is
on Jun 11, 2019
CLPHA Housing Is Serving Grandfamilies with HAKC Webinar
Webinar
Jun 11, 2019
CLPHA’s Education Working Group convened on Tuesday, June 11 to learn about one of the Housing Authority of Kansas City’s (HAKC) newest housing communities: Pemberton Park, a subsidized apartment building that serves grandparents caring for grandchildren.
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Recognizing that the aging of its population will reshape housing needs, the city of Washington, DC, has fostered numerous options for older residents, including some that are intentionally multigenerational.
Topics: Early childhood, Family engagement, Housing, Low-income, Seniors, Youth
Shared by Housing Is
on Jun 11, 2019
Expanding Multigenerational Housing Options
News Article
Recognizing that the aging of its population will reshape housing needs, the city of Washington, DC, has fostered numerous options for older residents, including some that are intentionally multigenerational.