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To end homelessness, every community needs to be able to implement a systemic response that ensures homelessness is prevented whenever possible, or, if it can’t be prevented, it is a rare, brief, and one-time experience. And that response must endure for the long term.
View Tool →In “Exploring Home, Together,” Communications Specialist Veronica Mills and the USICH team walk through the objectives in the federal plan to prevent and end homelessness one by one.
View Tool →To improve housing outcomes, communities are making a fundamental shift to Housing First approaches. Effective Housing First approaches, developed in response to strong evidence, include: prioritizing people experiencing homelessness for new and existing affordable housing; providing rapid re-housing to families and individuals; and providing supportive housing opportunities to people with the most intense needs.
View Tool →This YHDP team in Nashville, TN, shares current and planned efforts to build an alternative response as part of their coordinated community plan.
View Tool →Per HUD's website, this NOFA has been postponed.
View Tool →To end chronic homelessness among people with disabilities, we must work together across the public and private sectors to expand the supply of supportive housing opportunities for people with the most intensive needs and connect individuals to the health and behavioral health supports necessary for promoting their housing stability. These case studies were developed to highlight innovative community partnerships between the homelessness services system and health systems.
View Tool →These resources can help homelessness services systems prepare for disasters and respond and recover after they happen.
View Tool →USICH staff provide a high-level overview of HUD’s FY 2019 CoC Program NOFA, including policy priorities, scoring, and key changes from the FY 2018 NOFA.
View Tool →Housing problem-solving approaches support the effective implementation of homelessness prevention, diversion, and rapid exit strategies – strategies that should be a part of every coordinated entry process and are offered as potential housing pathways for all populations.
Make sure to also read Prevention, Diversion, and Rapid Exit.
View Tool →This document clarifies the terms prevention, diversion, and rapid exit, explains how they differ from each other, and offers considerations for implementation.
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