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USICH and our federal and national partners recognize the need for communities to address the racial inequities that exist across experiences of homelessness. In order to understand the dynamics underpinning these inequities and develop local solutions, communities must collect and examine both quantitative and qualitative data.
View Tool →In this webinar, USICH, HUD, and VA review the updates to the criteria and benchmarks for ending Veteran homelessness and demonstrate the revised Master List and Benchmark Generation Tool, which can help communities gather and track data toward achieving the goal.
View Tool →This toolkit is based on the tools used to provide program support to 16 states that participated in the IAP State Medicaid-Housing Agency Partnerships Tracks between 2016 and 2018.
View Tool →This tool, developed by HUD and its partners, and updated in December 2019, helps you develop or improve your by-name list in order to meet the criteria for achieving the goal of ending Veteran homelessness. The Master List Template and Benchmark Generation Tool includes a by-name list template that you can use as-is or to identify data to include in your own by-name list.
View Tool →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.
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