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From Skid Row to the Statehouse: How Nonprofit Homeless Service Providers Overcome Barriers to Policy Advocacy Involvement
Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2014
Human service nonprofits are thought to be critical players in advocating on behalf of marginalized communities and improved service delivery mechanisms. However, as human service nonprofits are organized primarily to provide services, not to conduct advocacy, their managers face substantial … Continue reading
Innovations in NYC Health & Human Services Policy: Street Homelessness and Supportive Housing
Urban Institute
Year: 2014
Under the Bloomberg administration, New York City has become a national model for how to reduce unsheltered and chronic homelessness. This policy brief—based on interviews with city officials, service providers, and national experts, as well as a review of public … Continue reading
Introducing Housing First in a Rural Service System: A Multistakeholder Perspective
Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice
Year: 2014
Housing First (HF) represents a fundamental shift in thinking about how to address chronic homelessness that has taken place during the past two decades. Whether and how the logic of HF fits in rural systems of care has not been … Continue reading
The Relationship between Community Investment in Permanent Supportive Housing and Chronic Homelessness
Social Service Review
Year: 2014
In recent years, permanent supportive housing (PSH) has emerged as the preferred intervention for addressing chronic homelessness in the United States. However, almost all prior studies examining the effectiveness of PSH have been conducted at the individual level, with only … Continue reading
Getting Home: Outcomes from Housing High Cost Homeless Hospital Patients
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2013
This study evaluates outcomes from April 2011 to May 2013 for 163 hospital patients screened by the 10th Decile Project in Los Angeles, which works with hospitals to identify the 10 percent of homeless patients with the highest public and … Continue reading
The 2013 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: 2013
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 2012 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: 2013
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2012 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR). AHAR provides a national estimate of homelessness and presents a comprehensive understanding of who uses local shelter systems and how these systems are used. HUD has … Continue reading
What happens to household formation in a recession?
Journal of Urban Economics
Year: 2013
While many studies have investigated the determinants of housing demand, very few studies have focused on how economic conditions affect the formation of potential households directly. Potential households may choose to delay entry into the housing market by remaining with … Continue reading
Transitioning from Homelessness: A “Fresh-Start” Event
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
Year: 2013
Permanent supportive housing (PSH) has been recognized as central to the goal of ending chronic homelessness. This qualitative study considers the positive and negative expectations of 31 men and women in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles who are … Continue reading
The Beliefs of Homeless Service Managers About Policy Advocacy: Definitions, Legal Understanding, and Motivations to Participate
Administration in Social Work
Year: 2013
Policy advocacy involvement by human service providers is important to help protect vital services and government funding streams, but for many organizations participation is limited. Meanwhile, scholars know little about managers’ beliefs about advocacy, compromising our ability to create effective … Continue reading