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The 2014 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: 2015
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) Part 2. The AHAR provides national estimates of homelessness in the United States. Like previous annual reports, this report is the second part in a … Continue reading
Homeless Services Continuums of Care: A Report of Research Findings
The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Year: 2015
Starting in the mid-1990s, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) began incentivizing collaboration among homeless services providers in order to improve service coordination and help local areas develop a community-wide approach to meeting the needs of … Continue reading
Permanent Supportive Housing for Homeless Families Initative: Evaluation Findings
Harder+Company
Year: 2015
First 5 LA contracted with Harder+Company Community Research (Harder+Company) in July 2014 to conduct a nine-month formative evaluation of the Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) for Homeless Families Initiative. The evaluation included programmatic efforts that had been implemented through late 2014. … Continue reading
All Alone: Antecedents of Chronic Homelessness
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2015
The pathways into homelessness have been described through anecdotal stories but are seldom explored using public agency data for a large population over an extended time. This study aims to help overcome that deficit and provide a more definitive portrait … Continue reading
Homelessness Prevention Study: Prevention Programs Funded by the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research
Year: 2015
Launched in 2009 to help American families survive a deep recession, the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP) enabled the first ever large-scale implementation of homelessness prevention programs. HPRP distributed $1.5 billion in grant funding to 535 states, counties, … Continue reading
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