Addressing Foreclosures : A Great American Dream Stabilization Program

Published by Copyright 2008 Center for American Progress
In this paper, the Center for American Progress proposes the establishment of a Great American Dream Neighborhood Stabilization, or GARDNS Fund to provide money quickly and efficiently to local non-profit organizations or municipalities to purchase foreclosed properties and offer them for sale to qualified low- and moderate-income families on affordable terms. Proceeds from the sale would be used to purchase additional properties, thus multiplying the purchasing power provided by this new fund.

Analyzing HMIS Data: What Can it Tell You?

Published by National Alliance to End Homelessness
This workshop at the 2008 National Conference on Ending Homelessness described how to use HMIS to answer important questions about the characteristics of homeless people, patterns of homelessness, and ways to allocate resources more effectively within a community.

Preserving the Dream : Understanding and Addressing the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

Published by Neighborhood Funders Group
This briefing paper explores how the current subprime mortgage crisis developed, highlights strategies that some communities are using to mitigate its negative impacts, reviews recent federal proposals to address the situation and discusses possible intervention strategies that foundations can pursue to address the crisis.

Special Report: Responding to Mental Illness in America

Published by The American Prospect
This broad selection of articles on the current state of mental health care in America provides an analysis of existing challenges and suggestions for model programs for the nation's mentally ill.

America's Rental Housing: The Key to a Balanced National Policy

Published by Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University
The damage from today’s mortgage foreclosure crisis reaches deep into the rental market. With affordability already a long-standing problem, the current housing debacle not only adds to the number of households competing for low-cost rentals and threatens current renters with eviction from their homes, but also increases the costs of financing rental housing construction and preservation.

Washington D.C.
Summary Report of the Urban Institute's Assessment of the District of Columbia's Public Homeless Assistance System

Published by Copyright 2008 Urban Institute
This final report for the Urban Institutes's contract to assess the District of Columbia's homeless assistance system summarizes findings and presents major recommendations including the need to move chronically homeless people from shelters and streets into permanent supportive housing with appropriate supportive services.

Assessing the Economic Costs of Serious Mental Illness

Published by The American Journal of Psychiatry
It goes without saying that the excess costs of untreated or poorly treated mental illness in the disability system, in prisons, and on the streets are part of the mental health care crisis. We are spending too much on mental illness in all the wrong places. And the consequences for consumers are worse than the costs for taxpayers.

Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategies in Hot Housing Markets

Published by Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
This paper inventories strategies for maintaining affordable housing toward perpetuity in hot markets in an increasing number of locales. Long-term affordable housing strategies answer the call to make affordable housing resources last longer as federal funding for affordable housing diminishes, rental affordability programs expire, and owners prematurely buy their way out of affordable mortgages.

CSH Announces 2008-2012 Strategic Plan

Published by Corporation for Supportive Housing
In January 2008, CSH launched our new Strategic Plan built on the solid foundation of our commitment to help communities create 150,000 new supportive housing units nationwide by 2012. This bold goal continues to serve as a call to action for CSH and our partners.

Illinois
New AIDS Foundation Chicago Study Shows Cost and Health Benefits of Supportive Housing

Published by AIDS Foundation Chicago
The Chicago Housing for Health Partnership (CHHP) is a “hospital-to-housing” effort that identifies chronically ill homeless individuals at hospitals, moves them to permanent supportive housing, and provides them with intensive case management services so that they can maintain their health and secure long-term housing stability.