Resource Audience: Continuums of Care
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Data Visualization: The Evidence on Housing First
Housing First has been thoroughly studied as an effective approach to ending people’s homelessness. System leaders, advocates, policymakers, and others are encouraged to review…
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Data Snapshot: Comparing Point in Time Counts between 2019 and 2020
The 2020 Point in Time count reflected a 2.2 percent increase in overall homelessness compared to 2019. However, states and Continuums of Care (CoCs) showed significant variation in the…
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Critical Time Intervention for Rapid Re-Housing
Critical Time Intervention for Rapid Re-Housing (CTI-RRH) is a time-limited evidence-based practice that mobilizes support for vulnerable individuals during periods of transition.
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Surveying Local Homeless Service Providers (Part 3): Responses from November 2020
The latest installment of community surveys reflects the findings of a third online survey of Continuum of Care leaders. These findings reflect how homeless service providers and systems…
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Surveying Local Homeless Service Providers (Part 2): Responses from July 2020
This installment of community surveys reflects the findings of a second online survey of CoC leaders, and notes systems’ progress in areas such as access to personal protective equipment…
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Voices from the Field: COVID-19 and Recession Surveys, Interviews, and Data
The Alliance’s Homelessness Research Institute has conducted surveys with Continuums of Care (CoC) throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to assess their most pressing needs, and identify any..
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Diversion
Diversion is an intervention designed to immediately address the needs of someone who has just lost their housing and become homeless.
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Racial Equity & Coordinated Entry: Where Can Disparities Happen in the Process?
Coordinated entry is a mechanism to shift homeless systems’ response methods from project-centric to person-centric, and based on community-level standards for referrals and program entry.
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Keeping People and Pets Together
In communities around the United States, a significant number of people experiencing homelessness own pets.
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The Alliance’s Racial Equity Network Action Steps
The Alliance’s Racial Equity Network (REN) has developed action steps that communities may find useful if they find racial or ethnic disparities in their homelessness system.