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20 Innovations in 20 Days

Date Published: May 6, 2008
Publisher: United States Interagency Council on Homelessness

This collection from US Interagency Council on Homelessness offers insights into Innovative Initiatives that are preventing and ending homelessness. Included are a far-ranging set of replicable efforts focused on the common mission of eliminating homelessness with special attention to eliminating chronic homelessness in the next decade.

Selected innovations include:

  • Project Re-Connect: Achieving Successful Reentry for Ex-Prisoners through St. Louis' 10 Year Plan
  • Cost Benefit Analysis and Consumer Satisfaction: Results from Philanthropic Investment to End Chronic Homelessness in Housing First RI
  • Measuring Local Results in Ending Homelessness
    through a State Plan:
  • Washington State's Intergovernmental Partnership
    Virginia CASH Campaign (Creating Assets, Savings and Hope)


Each innovation described includes information on:

  • What is the Innovation and How Does It Work?
  • Who Benefits from the Innovation?
  • What Results are being Achieved and Reported?
  • Who is the Innovator?
  • Where Can I Learn More About the Innovation?

http://www.usich.gov/innovations/index.html