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Evaluation of the 100,000 Homes Campaign: Assessing the Campaign’s Effectiveness in Housing the Chronically and Vulnerable Homeless
Urban Institute
Year: 2015
The Urban Institute’s evaluation of the 100,000 Homes Campaign (the Campaign) found that the Campaign had a major impact on national efforts to end homelessness, despite its modest staffing and budget. Community Solutions successfully recruited nearly every major city to … Continue reading
Maslow and Mental Health Recovery: A Comparative Study of Homeless Programs for Adults with Serious Mental Illnes
Administration and Policy in Mental Health
Year: 2015
This mixed-methods study uses Maslow’s hierarchy as a theoretical lens to investigate the experiences of 63 newly enrolled clients of housing first and traditional programs for adults with serious mental illness who have experienced homelessness. Quantitative findings suggests that identifying … Continue reading
Service use before and after the provision of scatter-site Housing First for chronically homeless individuals with severe alcohol use disorders
International Journal of Drug Policy
Year: 2015
Based on an increasing evidence base, the U.S. Federal Government has endorsed permanent supportive housing using a Housing First (HF) approach as the “clear solution” to chronic homelessness (U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, 2010, p. 18). Canada and Europe have … Continue reading
Examining mortality among formerly homeless adults enrolled in Housing First: An observational study
BMC Public Health
Year: 2015
Adults who experience prolonged homelessness have mortality rates 3 to 4 times that of the general population. Housing First (HF) is an evidence-based practice that effectively ends chronic homelessness, yet there has been virtually no research on premature mortality among … Continue reading
Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives
Oxford University Press
Year: 2015
Little more than two decades ago, the “Housing First” (HF) approach pioneered by Pathways to Housing, Inc. was a small but determined challenge to the burgeoning yet ineffective service system for homeless persons. Today, the success of HF has brought … Continue reading
Predictors of Homelessness Among Families and Single Adults After Exit from Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Programs: Evidence from the Department of Veterans Affairs Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program
Housing Policy Debate
Year: 2015
This article assesses the extent and predictors of homelessness among veterans (both veterans in families with children and single adults veterans) exiting the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program, which is a nationwide homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing program … Continue reading
Childhood Adversity, Adult Homelessness and the Intergenerational Transmission of Risk: A Population-representative Study of Individuals in Households with Children
Children and Family Social Work
Year: 2015
This study tested for associations between childhood adversity, adult homelessness and contexts of developmental risk in households with children. Data were drawn from the 2010 Washington State Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, representative of the population of Washington State residents. … Continue reading
The 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Office of Community Planning and Development
Year: 2014
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 2013 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: 2014
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) 2013 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) Part 2 provides national estimates of homelessness in the United States. Like previous annual reports, this report is the second part in a two-part series, … Continue reading
Housing Formation and Unemployment Rates
The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
Year: 2014
This paper investigates the impact of shocks in the unemployment rate on household formation. Prior research has shown that negative economic shocks reduce household formation, but does not inform how long the declines in household formation will persist. Using time … Continue reading