Win-Win: Equipping Housing Providers to Open Doors to Housing for People With Criminal Records

For a housing provider, translating the desire to improve housing opportunity for people with records into concrete policies and practices can be a challenge. For providers who are putting out fires each and every day at their properties, slowing down to develop new approaches may be difficult. The purpose of Win-Win is to recommend a number of policies and practices—ranging from small changes to the more robust—that housing providers can adopt and adapt, in whole or in part, to increase housing opportunities for people with criminal records.

In order to create concrete recommendations, Heartland Alliance consulted with anumber of affordable housing developers and Cabrini Green Legal Aid’s Leadership Council, which brings together people with criminal records to advance social change. We also worked with experts in the field and researchers to round out our recommendations.

Publication Date: 
2019