Resource Best Practice: Emergency Shelters and Interim Housing
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Interim Strategies For Responding To Unsheltered Homelessness
Although permanent housing paired with services and supports tailored to the household remains the only permanent solution to homelessness, there is no community in the country that has an adequate housing supply or social safety net. This, combined with insufficient shelter capacity, results in more and more people forced to sleep outside.
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Interim Strategies For Responding To Unsheltered Homelessness
Permanent housing strategies remain both an immediate and the sole long-term solution to homelessness. Whenever possible, people should be connected directly to housing from wherever they are currently residing.
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Funding Opportunities: Learn More About HUD’s Special NOFO to Address Rural Homelessness and New Stability Housing Voucher Program
Learn about an unprecedented opportunity to address rural homelessness through two funding pools offered by HUD. Local rural housing organizations can work with Continuums of Care (CoCs) and public housing agencies (PHAs) to provide emergency shelter
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Roundtable Series – Stronger Together: A Roadmap to An Effective Homeless System
This series is designed for advocates (including people with lived expertise), system leaders, funders, program managers, and direct service providers.
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Joint Transitional Housing/Rapid Re-Housing (TH/RRH): Am I Doing it Right?
The Joint Component of Transitional Housing/Rapid Rehousing was introduced as a new type of project that communities could apply for that combines the activities of a transitional housing project with those of a rapid re-housing project.
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Emergency Shelter: Practices That Work
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Emergency Shelter: Reimagining a Housing Focused Place People Want to Use
A safe, welcoming, low-barrier, and housing-focused shelter is a critical component of an effective homeless response system. Effective shelter practice requires listening to people with lived expertise and making cultural, philosophical, and operational shifts according to their feedback.
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Emergency Shelter: Rethink Your Rules to Serve More People
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Emergency Shelter Learning Series
Emergency shelters play a critical role in ending homelessness. Effective shelters should embrace a Housing First approach, offer immediate and…
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Alliance Resource Series: Using COVID-19 Federal Funding to End Homelessness
Federal relief funds to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic provide communities with an opportunity to end homelessness for more people than ever before.