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Prioritizing Which Homeless People Get Housing Using Predictive Algorithms
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2017
We present a predictive model for identifying homeless persons likely to have high future costs for public services. It was developed by linking administrative records from 2007 through 2012 for seven Santa Clara County agencies and identifying 38 demographic, clinical … Continue reading
LA’s homeless can vote, but can they get to the polls to support a vital bond measure in November?
Los Angeles Times
Year: 2016
Los Angeles will vote on a $1.2 billion bond to fund housing and other facilities to alleviate homelessness in November. It will need approval by two-thirds of city voters to pass. No one has more riding on the outcome than … Continue reading
Permanent Supportive Housing in Washington, DC
National Coalition for the Homeless
Year: 2016
Homelessness in the nation’s capital remains stubbornly persistent. Each night, thousands of Washingtonians bed down in shelters and on heat grates, close neighbors to the White House. While it is a jarring sight to see so many people living in … Continue reading
The 2015 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress Part 2: Estimates of Homelessness in the United States
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Office of Community Planning and Development
Year: 2016
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) 2015 Annual Homeless Assessment (AHAR) Part 2. The AHAR provides national estimates of homelessness in the United States. As with previous annual reports, this is the second part in a two-part … Continue reading
The 2016 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Year: 2016
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) releases the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (AHAR) in two parts. Part 1 provides Point-in-Time (PIT) estimates, offering a snapshot of homelessness—both sheltered and unsheltered— on a single night. The one-night … Continue reading
The 2016 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress Part 2: Estimates of Homelessness in the United States
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Year: 2016
In 2001, the U.S. Congress required that HUD fund communities to implement information systems to track the use of homelessness services, with the understanding that ending homelessness requires knowledge about the size of the problem and the way in which … Continue reading
Feasibility of a computer‑assisted social network motivational interviewing intervention for substance use and HIV risk behaviors for housing first residents
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
Year: 2016
Social networks play positive and negative roles in the lives of homeless people influencing their alcohol and/or other drug (AOD) and HIV risk behaviors. This study is the first of its kind that has developed, with input from Housing First staff … Continue reading
Integrated Primary Care in Assertive Community Treatment
Psychiatric Services in Advance
Year: 2016
Assertive community treatment (ACT) has the potential to serve as a medical home for adults with serious mental illness, a population that experiences some of the most significant health disparities in the United States. Using site visit methodology, the authors … Continue reading
Pilot Test of an Adapted, Evidence-Based HIV Sexual Risk Reduction Intervention for Homeless Women
Society for Research Prevention
Year: 2016
Women experiencing homelessness are at heightened risk for HIV, yet risk reduction interventions specifically designed for this population are lacking. This study reports on a pilot efficacy trial of a brief evidence-based intervention, Sister To Sister (STS), that we specifically … Continue reading
Risk behavior and access to HIV/AIDS prevention services in a community sample of homeless persons entering permanent supportive housing
AIDS Care
Year: 2016
Homeless persons suffer disproportionately high rates of HIV infection, and moving into permanent supportive housing (PSH) can provide a stable base from which to access needed prevention services. However, little is known about HIV risk or prevention behavior during this … Continue reading