Issue Areas: Housing and Homelessness
 
Compounding Stress: The Timing and Duration Effects of Homelessness on Children's Health

New research from Children's HealthWatch illustrates there is no safe level of homelessness. The timing (pre-natal, post-natal) and duration of homelessness (more or less than six months) compounds the risk of harmful child health outcomes. The... + More

 
Opportunity Youth Employment Program Case Study: Daybreak

This resource is a case study on Daybreak, a program that offers emergency shelter, street outreach, housing, education, mental health, and employment services -- including transitional jobs (TJ) within a social enterprise setting -- to help youth... + More

 
Opportunity Youth Employment Program Case Study: Larkin Street

This resource is a case study on Larkin Street, a program that includes housing and medical care along with education, employment, and career services via their Larkin Street Academy. Larkin Street Academy "meets youth where they are" by... + More

 
Home Not Found: The Cost of Homelessness In Silicon Valley

This report analyzes comprehensive cross-sector information about the entire population of residents who experienced homelessness in Santa Clara County at any point during a six year period -- a total of 104,206 individuals. This information... + More

 
Preserving, Protecting, and Expanding Affordable Housing: A Policy Toolkit for Public Health

Resurgent interest in urban living is helping to revive neighborhoods in numerous American cities, stabilizing populations and sometimes beginning to reverse previous declines. One consequence of the influx of residents is new public and private... + More

 
The Facts Behind the Faces: A Fact Sheet from the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (2015)

Provides national, state, and local statistics and data about affordable housing, family status of homeless households, living wage jobs, tax inequality, un- and under-employment, the poverty rate, and other exacerbating factors that feed into and... + More

 
2013 Minnesota Baseline Housing Measures

McKnight's annually updated report on progress toward goals as established in our affordable housing evaluation framework. + More

 
On Solid Ground: Building Opportunity, Preventing Homelessness

This report documents the impact of the Commonwealth's housing shortage on families with extremely low incomes, and outlines the critical components of a preventative approach to family homelessness. The report makes the following recommendations to... + More

 
Eviction Prevention Programming (EPP): Best Practices Review Feb 2015

There is no question that eviction is bad news for renters. Forced moves put individuals and families at risk in so many ways: They have a more difficult time being accepted as tenants elsewhere; they frequently are disconnected from social-support... + More

 
The Long Road from C.J. Peete to Harmony Oaks

This report summarizes how McCormack Baron Salazar, a development firm, and its nonprofit subsidiary, Urban Strategies, involved residents in an 18-month redevelopment of New Orleans' C.J. Peete public housing complex after Hurricane Katrina. The... + More