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
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.
The THCH initiative has been operating since 2004 in three sites with CSH offices (Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Los Angeles) and in three sites outside of the CSH footprint - Portland/Multnomah County, OR, Seattle/King County, WA, and the State of Maine. The goals of the THCH initiative, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, include new and expanded relationships among housing developers and service providers to increase the integration of housing and services, increased funding for a robust supportive housing pipeline, and policy and programmatic changes that make supportive housing more accessible to chronically homeless individuals.
