Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless

Links: Supportive Housing

Million-Dollar Murray: Why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage, New Yorker 2/13/06

A Scientific Approach to Helping the Homeless, NPR interview with Malcolm Gladwell

Financing Supportive Housing Guide from the Corporation for Supportive Housing

Taking Health Care Home: Baseline Report on PSH Tenants, Programs, Policies, and Funding by Martha Burt, from the Corporation for Supportive Housing

"Family History and Experiences in Supportive Housing" a Research Report from the Urban Institute

• "The Impact of Supportive Housing for Homeless People with Severe Mental Illness on the Utilization of the Public Health, Corrections, and Emergency Shelter Systems: The New York-New York Initiative" by Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux, and Trevor Hadley, Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research, University of Pennsylvania May 2001
• In New York
• In California
• In Ohio
• In Minnesota
• California’s AB 2034 Programs: Breaking the Cycle of Chronic Homelessness
• 55.8 percent reduction in the number of days of psychiatric hospitalization
• 72.1 percent reduction in the number of days of incarceration
• 67.3 percent reduction in the number of days spent homeless
• 65.4 percent increase in the number of days of full-time employment
• 53.1 percent increase in the number of days of part-time employment
• Corporation for Supportive Housing
• Costs of Serving Homeless Individuals in Nine Cities Costs per day: supportive housing $33.45, homeless shelter $40, hospital $1,770, mental hospital $541, prison $117
  
• Housing Homeless Who Are Mentally Ill Cuts Their Emergency Costs, Study Says, Wall Street Journal
• Ending Homelessness through the Public Health System, National Alliance to End Homelessness
• Fannie Mae and National Alliance to End Homelessness Kick Off Partnership
• Housing First for Families from the National Alliance to End Homelessness
• Study Quantifies Cost for Housing Homeless Persons with Mental Illness
• "Developing the 'Support' in Supportive Housing" from Knowledgeplex

 

 

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Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless

P.O. Box 1505, Charlottesville, VA 22902

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