Resource Best Practice: Rapid Re-Housing
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Role of CoC Lead Agencies in Expanding Capacity and Improving Performance
This brief describes activities that local Continuum of Care (CoC) lead agencies, those tasked by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with developing a systemic response to homelessness, can and should take to increase capacity and improve rapid re-housing (RRH) practices and performance.
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Strategies to Secure and Expand Funds for Rapid Re-Housing
This brief is designed to help Continuums of Care (CoCs) identify successful strategies to increase resources to expand RRH.
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Coordinating Diverse Funding Streams for Rapid Re-Housing
This brief examines action steps that homeless service system leaders can adopt to improve coordination by funders and the strengths and challenges associated with these strategies.
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Creating Systems and Culture Change around Rapid Re-Housing
This brief provides guidance for communities interested or currently engaged in efforts to expand rapid re-housing. It examines strategies communities who have transformed their…
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Rapid Re-Housing
Rapid re-housing provides short-term rental assistance and services. The goals are to help people obtain housing quickly, increase self- sufficiency, and stay housed.
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Rapid Re-Housing Performance Evaluation and Improvement Toolkit
Learn how to use your program or system data on rapid re-housing to evaluate and improve services.
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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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Rapid Re-Housing Performance Benchmarks and Program Standards
Rapid re-housing is an intervention designed to help individuals and families to quickly exit homelessness, return to housing in the community, and not become homeless again in the near term.
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Recent Rapid Re-Housing Research
This data snapshot provides an overview of 2015 research into the effectiveness of rapid re-housing, including data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Short-term Impacts from the Family Options Study and the Department of Veterans Affairs Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) FY 2014 Annual Report…
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Adopting Rapid Re-Housing Statewide: The Commonwealth of Virginia
From 2010 to 2014 Virginia reduced the number of families experiencing homelessness by 25 percent. One important factor in this success was that Virginia shifted from a shelter and transitional housing-based system to one based much more on the use of a rapid re-housing approach. This paper outlines the major activities and lessons learned from…