We can end homelessness with coordinated, strategic investments – both public and private – in effective solutions. The key is housing combined with the right supports for people who are or may become homeless. Housing-based solutions focus on moving people who are homeless into affordable rental housing and providing them with supports they need to remain there.
The traditional approach to homelessness focused on counseling and treating people with mental illnesses or those recovering from substance abuse while they lived in emergency shelters or on the streets. We now know that people experiencing homelessness need a stable living environment before they can benefit fully from support services and begin to achieve self-sufficiency.
Related Blog Posts
- 5/7/2014 - We Can Honor This Mother’s Day by Restoring Housing Vouchers - Anne Miskey, Funders Together to End Homelessness
- 4/30/2014 - Housing-based Solutions Can End Homelessness - Funders Together to End Homelessness
- 4/17/2014 - Understanding the Connections Between Family Homelessness and TANF: Tips for Funders - Funders Together to End Homelessness
- 3/11/2014 - What We’ve Learned about What Works to End Chronic Homelessness - Beth Sandor, Community Solutions
- 2/24/2014 - Making Public Housing Work for Families (Part 3 of 3) - Nancy von Euler, Fairfield County Community Foundation
- 2/18/2014 - Making Public Housing Work for Families (Part 2 of 3) - Nancy von Euler, Fairfield County Community Foundation
- 2/11/2014 - Making Public Housing Work for Families (Part 1 of 3) - Nancy von Euler, Fairfield County Community Foundation
- 11/25/2013 – Supporting Solutions to Prevent and End Homelessness - Janice Elliott, Melville Charitable Trust
- 10/7/2013 – Housing is Health Care: Outcomes from Housing High Cost Homeless Hospital Patients - Bill Pitkin, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
- 9/26/2013 - Living with the Consequences: Sequestration’s Impact on the Houston Housing Authority - Tory Gunsolley, Houston Housing Authority
- 9/23/2013 - Homelessness Requires Housing and Services, Not Jail - Bobbie Ibarra, Miami Coalition for the Homeless
- 9/19/2013 - Veterans’ Housing First Program - Hannah Zollman, Pathways to Housing DC
- 9/9/2013 - Housing Trust Funds: A Step After Housing First - Funders Together to End Homelessness
- 8/13/2013 – Insidious Impacts: Sequestration’s Effects on the Most Vulnerable Families - Aimee Hendrigan, Melville Charitable Trust
- 8/6/2013 - Housing is Healthcare - Katie McKillin, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- 8/1/2013 - Post-Conference Guest Blog: Top 3 Things I Took Away from This Summer’s Conference - Iain De Jong, OrgCode
- 4/16/2013 - Thinking More Broadly About a Place to Call Home - David Wertheimer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- 2/22/2013 - Visiting Seattle: The Success of Funders Together [Video] - Funders Together to End Homelessness
- 2/1/2013 - Looking Ahead: A Vision for Ending Family Homelessness - David Wertheimer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- 1/3/2012 - The Global Classroom: A View of Homelessness from “Down Under” - Martha Toll, Butler Family Fund, and David Wertheimer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- 11/16/2012 - A Canadian Perspective on Ending Homelessness [Video] - Kayleigh Meyers, Calgary Homeless Foundation
- 11/6/2012 - Lessons from 200 Smart Thinkers [Video] - David Wertheimer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- 8/8/2012 – Ending Family Homelessness Requires Changes in the Ways We Do Business - David Wertheimer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- 6/27/2012 - In Ohio, Medicaid is a Life Changer for People Experiencing Homelessness - Terri Donlin Huesman, Osteopathic Heritage Foundation, and Karen Twinem, National Church Residences
- 6/20/2012 - Housing Development Correlates to Homelessness Reduction in Tulsa - Bill Major, Zarrow Family Foundations
- 5/3/2012 - Opening Doors to End Homelessness in Connecticut - Ann Woodward, Melville Charitable Trust
- 4/25/2012 - Resource Roundup: Spring 2012 - Funders Together to End Homelessness
- 2/16/2012 - You Can Help to End Veterans Homelessness - Anne Miskey, Funders Together to End Homelessness
- 1/9/2012 - Lessons Learned in Ending Chronic Homelessness - Bill Pitkin, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
- 10/21/2011 - How Philanthropy Can Help End Homelessness - Barbara Poppe, US Interagency Council on Homelessness
- 7/12/2011 - Rhode Island: Leading the Way toward Ending Homelessness - Deborah De Santis, Corporation for Supportive Housing
- 4/14/2011 - Can Foundations Eradicate Homelessness? - Anne Miskey, Funders Together to End Homelessness
- 3/11/2011 - Facilitating Philanthropy’s Response to Homelessness - Anne Miskey, Funders Together to End Homelessness
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