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2016 Advocates Guide
The Advocates’ Guide: An Educational Primer on Federal Programs and Resources Related to Affordable Housing and Community Development, is a guide to affordable housing with useful resources and practical know-how written by leading experts in the affordable housing and community development field with a singular purpose—to educate...
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Gender, Coping Strategies, Homelessness Stressors, and Income Generation Among Homeless Young Adults in Three Cities
Kristin M.Ferguson
Kimberly Bender
Sanna J.Thompson
This study examines gender differences among homeless young adults coping strategies and homelessness stressors as they relate to legal (e.g., full-time employment, selling personal possessions, selling blood/plasma) and illegal economic activity (e.g., selling drugs, theft, prostitution).
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North America
Rapid Re-Housing in the City of Chicago: 2014 to 2017
This report presents a comprehensive review of Rapid Re-housing model (RRH). RRH has emerged as one of the major and cost-effective strategies for addressing homelessness in the United States. Federal agencies have demonstrated support for RRH in meaningful ways: two federally funded programs, the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-...
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North America
Homelessness Prevention: Key Principles and Best Practices
This memo discusses key principles and best practices for homelessness prevention, with an emphasis on developments following the expiration of the federal Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP), which ended in September 2012.
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Systems Work Better Together: Strengthening Public Workforce & Homeless Service Systems Collaboration
Tara Maguire
Caitlin C. Schnur
Chris Warland
Melissa Young
Melissa Young
Drawing from in-depth interviews with public workforce and homeless service systems leaders and the work of our five Connections Project sites, this paper identifies common barriers to public workforce and homeless service systems collaboration and recommends how to address these barriers in order to help ensure that homeless and...
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Understanding the Success of Chicago’s Ending Veteran Homelessness Initiative
All Chicago
The Ending Veteran Homelessness Initiative (EVHI) is an effort by local, regional, and federal partners to end and prevent homelessness among veterans in the city of Chicago through a coordinated, data-driven process. The initiative built off the momentum of multiple national efforts, including 25 Cities, Built for Zero, and the Mayor’s...
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Indianapolis Community Plan to End Homelessness
Coalition for Homelessness Intervention & Prevention
The Indianapolis Community Plan to End Homelessness: 2018 - 2023 is a five-year plan that includes a set of long-term solutions providing the types of systemic reforms necessary to take a truly collaborative approach to end homelessness in our community and serve as a catalyst to developing real solutions for this urgent need.  The goal...
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North America
Youth Callaboration Toolkit
True Colors Fund
Whenever decisions are being made that impact young people, it’s important that youth are at the table and have equitable decision-making responsibilities. This can look a number of different ways: working with young people to establish a youth leadership body, including one or more youth representatives on a board of directors, and...
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A Place of Refuge: A monitor of homelessness among destitute asylum seekers - A proposal for action
Housing4All
This research, which involved interviews with 36 destitute asylum seekers, was carried out by the newly formed Housing4All campaign group supported by PPR. Destitute asylum seekers are those whose application for asylum in the UK has been refused and are often in the position of gathering further information for an appeal or a fresh...
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Europe
Analysis of Risk Communication Strategies and Approaches with At-Risk Populations to Enhance Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery (Working Paper)
Lisa S. Meredith
Lisa R. Shugarman
Anita Chandra
Stephanie L. Taylor
Stefanie Stern
Ellen Burke Beckjord
Andrew M. Parker
Terri Tanielian
Communication is a critical component of helping individuals prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. However, there is limited knowledge about how to best communicate with at-risk populations in emergencies. To inform this gap, RAND researchers, under contract by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of...
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