Resource Best Practice: Emergency Shelters and Interim Housing
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Key Takeaways: The Role of Emergency Shelter in Diversion
To effectively respond to homelessness, communities should be able to help residents maintain or regain housing without having to enter emergency shelter.
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Emergency Shelters Are Serving an Increasingly Vulnerable Population
Emergency shelters play a critical role in a community’s homelessness response system: they provide an immediate place to stay while people reconnect with housing. Shelters work best when…
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Crisis Response
The goals of an effective crisis response system are to identify those experiencing homelessness, prevent homelessness when possible, connect people with housing quickly and provide services when needed.
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Transitional Housing Conversion: A Building Owner’s Toolkit
Many communities around the country are repurposing or reallocating their transitional housing projects to create new rapid re-housing subsidies and permanent housing units.
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Promising Strategy: DeKalb Kids Home Collaborative
This paper provides an overview of the DeKalb Kids Home Collaborative, which is an example of a successful partnership forged between homeless service providers, the school system, and an employment service provider. The partnership emerged after school leaders and homeless service providers came together to help a mother and son struggling with homelessness. Their collaborative…
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Retooling Transitional Housing Checklist
This checklist provides a timeline and conceptual plan for transitional housing providers seeking to retool their programs.
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Retooling Transitional Housing Success Stories
Kay Moshier McDivitt answers a common question we receive about retooling transitional housing programs: “What are some real-world examples of programs that have successfully retooled?” In…
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Recommendations for Effective Implementation of the HEARTH Act Continuum of Care Regulations
The purpose of this document is to help Continuums take advantage of opportunities in the interim Continuum of Care regulations to further the use of national best practices in their communities. The Alliance’s recommendations focus on coordinated assessment, transitional housing, rapid re-housing, and governance and performance measurement. This brief also contains many links to other…
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Changes in the HUD Definition of “Homeless”
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued a final regulation to implement changes to the definition of homelessness contained in the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act. The new definition is outlined here.