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.

California
Hilton Foundation Project to End Homelessness for People with Mental Illness in Los Angeles: Changes in Homelessness, Supportive Housing, and Tenant Characteristics Since 2005

Published by Corporation for Supportive Housing
In 2005, the Hilton Foundation gave CSH a five-year grant to launch an initiative in Los Angeles County to reduce the number of long-term homeless people, with a special focus on reducing homelessness among people with serious mental illness. To promote these outcomes, CSH has been using grant money to: fund predevelopment work on various permanent supportive housing (PSH) projects, invest in building the capacity of supportive housing providers, work with public officials and other key stakeholders in the county and selected cities (Los Angeles, Long Beach, Santa Monica, and others) to stimulate increased commitment to PSH, support the Special Needs Housing Alliance, and pursue other activities with City and County of Los Angeles officials and agencies.

Putting Housing First, Making Housing Last: Housing Policy for Persons with Severe Mental Illness

Published by Fundamental Policy
Securing safe and affordable housing is a challenge for millions of Americans. For individuals with severe and persistent mental illness this challenge is even more difficult. The sad reality is that most individuals with severe and persistent mental illness live at or below the poverty line and even though many receive subsidized supports such as food stamps, health care, and disability insurance, these benefits rarely stretch far enough to cover the cost of adequate and safe housing.

Homeless Older Adults Strategic Plan

Published by The Shelter Partnership
Shelter Partnership developed this plan for homeless older adults under both a moral imperative to address the rising needs of a population that has been historically neglected, and also as a means to challenge our public systems of care and other concerned stakeholders to adopt a strategic approach to address the housing, service and health care needs of homeless older adults in an integrated fashion.

Out of Reach 2007

Published by National Low Income Housing Coalition
Despite the emphasis on homeownership and the marginalization of renters, renter households still make up fully one-third of the households in the United States — more than 36 million households. Out of Reach is a side-by-side comparison of wages and rents in every county, Metropolitan Area (MSAs/HMFAs), combined nonmetropolitan area and state in the United States.

Ohio
Rural Homeless Initiative of Southeast and Central Ohio : A National Model for Planning to End Rural Homelessness

Published by National Alliance to End Homelessness
This report details results of a collaboration between the National Alliance to End Homelessness and the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations to work with sixteen communities in Southeast and Central Ohio seeking to adopt and implement plans to end homelessness.

The Second Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress

Published by US Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Community Planning and Development
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is pleased to present this second national report to Congress on homelessness in America. The first Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) was submitted in February 2007.

North Carolina
Cost Effectiveness of Supportive Housing in Wake County, North Carolina

Published by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill School of Social Work
This report provides an assessment of the cost effectiveness of supportive housing provided by the Lennox Chase development in Wake County. Lennox Chase is a Low Income Housing Tax Credit housing complex for individuals with low incomes, many of whom were formerly homeless.This analysis identifies a number of potential benefits of supportive housing.

Taking Health Care Home Part III : Evolution of Permanent Supportive Housing in the Taking Health Care Home Communities 2004 – 2007: Tenants, Programs, Policies, and Funding at Project End

Published by Corporation for Supportive Housing
This report is the third in a series of evaluation reports highlighting the systems change efforts of the Taking Health Care Home (THCH) initiative. It describes and analyzes data from a second wave of PSH project and agency surveys. The surveys collected information on the number of PSH units available in the THCH sites; the characteristics of the tenants; the number and size of capital, operating, and services funding sources; agency collaboration; and tenant policies.