How Supportive Housing Can Keep Families Together
Publication
Nov 15, 2023
Homelessness and child welfare system involvement pose substantial challenges for families, but supportive housing can help them stay together and access secure housing.
Homelessness
Why Is It So Hard for People Experiencing Homelessness to “Just Go Get a Job?”
Publication
Nov 15, 2023
People experiencing homelessness disproportionately face systemic barriers to employment, which make finding and keeping a job neither simple nor easy.
Permanent Supportive Housing as a Solution to Homelessness: The Critical Role of Long-Term Operating Subsidies
Publication
Jun 23, 2023
This study aims to quantify the costs of operating PSH—including both the costs of managing the property and providing supportive services—and examine what the implications of insufficient funding are for properties, staff, and residents.
Permanent Supportive Housing as a Solution to Homelessness: The Critical Role of Long-Term Operating Subsidies
Publication
Jun 23, 2023
This study aims to quantify the costs of operating PSH—including both the costs of managing the property and providing supportive services—and examine what the implications of insufficient funding are for properties, staff, and residents.
Housing First Is a Promising Approach to Help Domestic Violence Survivors Attain Stability and Safety
Research
Jul 26, 2023
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a leading cause of homelessness and can harm physical and mental health and financial outcomes. But little evidence exists on how to effectively help IPV survivors obtain housing stability and safety.
Seen and Served: How Dedicated Federal Funding Supports the Identification of Students Experiencing Homelessness
Report
Feb 7, 2023
In the 2020-21 school year, more than 25 million children and youth – roughly half of all elementary and secondary students in the United States – attended schools in school districts that lacked dedicated funding to identify and support students experiencing homelessness.
Administrative Models for Medicaid Funding Services
Policy Brief
Nov 1, 2019
A Resource for Housing and Homeless Programs Considering Options for Billing for Medicaid Eligible Services---
This review of Medicaid models is designed to assist supportive housing providers and homeless service organizations consider strategies to enhance their services (and services funding)
Housing and Homelessness: Breaking Down Silos for Systems Change
Publication
Nov 17, 2022
Lessons for funders and social change leaders in search of the best ways to collaborate across sectors to end homelessness.
Policing Doesn’t End Homelessness. Supportive Housing Does.
Case study
Oct 25, 2022
Unsheltered homelessness is on the rise amid a systemic and widespread lack of affordable housing, supportive services, and livable wages.
Principles in Action Universities as Age Friendly Partners
Case study
Oct 25, 2022
According to UN-Habitat, the world needs to build 96,000 affordable homes every day to address the
global housing crisis by 2030. Yet, better utilizing existing housing stock—through options such as shared
housing—can make a significant dent in the need to build more housing.