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The most comprehensive count of the homeless in Los Angeles. Applied Survey Research (ASR)conducted the survey, which showed an estimated 1 out of 110 people in LA County is homeless on any night and 1 out of 40 will experience homelessness annually. California's homeless population (195,637 at the time of this report) is the highest in the nation, more than double Flordia (68,369). Fourty-six percent of California's total homeless population is...
Publication Date: 1905
The most comprehensive count of the homeless in Los Angeles. Applied Survey Research (ASR)conducted the survey, which showed an estimated 1 out of 110 people in LA County is homeless on any night and 1 out of 40 will experience homelessness annually. California's homeless population (195,637 at the time of this report) is the highest in the nation, more than double Flordia (68,369). Fourty-six percent of California's total homeless population is...
Author(s): Annetta Smith, Denise Smith
Publication Date: 2001
This report presents tabulations on people enumerated at emergency and transitional shelters – that is, at emergency shelters for people experiencing homelessness; shelters for children who are runaways, neglected, or without conventional housing; transitional shelters for people without conventional housing; and hotels and motels used to provide shelter for people without conventional housing. It does not include people enumerated at shel...
Author(s): Patricia Post
Publication Date: 2007
This guide was written to assure that individuals with substance use disorders and co-occurring impairments that meet Social Security disability criteria receive Federal disability assistance under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program or the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. The guide focuses on the complex issues involved in documenting impairments that co-occur with substance use disorders — particularly for homele...
The Center for Self-Help Research brings together consumers, mental health service providers, and researchers to study aspects of consumer-directed, self-help mental health and its relationship to the public mental health system. Its major current project is an outcome study of participants who are homeless and mentally disabled in self-help agencies and professionally provided mental health services. The Center disseminates its findings through...
Author(s): Carol Mowbray, Elizabeth Robinson, Mark Holter
Publication Date: 2002
Interest in involvement of consumers in mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation services delivery has expanded in recent years, encompassing self-help approaches,consumers employed as providers in formal agencies, and consumers operating their own services. This study reports results from in-depth phone surveys conducted with 32 consumer drop-in centers in Michigan. Results indicate that centers operate in many ways like other human serv...
Publication Date: 2000
The 2000 Family Housing Collaborative Evaluation assesses the performance of all three providers in CSB’s Family Housing Collaborative. It examines program performance for the twelve-month period from July 1, 1999 to June 30, 2000. The evaluation is based on information collected from on-site interviews with staff, client data from CSB’s Management Information System and review of financial records. (Authors)
Publication Date: 2003
This Guide offers information related to benefits you may be eligible for and your rights and responsibilities, not legal advice. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information and to clearly explain your options. This guide is not intended, however, to provide legal advice on the application of federal, state or local laws to your individual circumstances. Please refer to the contacts listed in the Guide for additional info...
Author(s): Pat Morgan
Publication Date: 2002
In 2001, Memphis and Shelby County served over 7,000 people in emergency shelters and transitional housing. An additional 9,000 people were turned away, mostly because lack of space. This plan suggests maximizing use of mainstream programs, increasing efficiency and coordination of service delivery among service provider organizations; filling gaps in services and housing options for individuals with mental illness and/or chemical dependenc...
Publication Date: 2006
This 2-page brochure describes Housing Stability Plus (HSP), a rental subsidy program instituted by New York's Department of Homeless Services (DHS) in December 2004, HSP is supposed to help homeless families achieve success in finding and staying in permanent housing. However, the authors feel that HSP is a shelter allowance supplement for homeless families receiving public assistance (PA). The supplement has a five-year time limit and is reduc...
Publication Date: 2004
A 4-page synopsis of A Shelter is Not a Home Or Is It? Lessons Learned from Family Homelessness in New York City, e story of family homelessness in New York City while highlighting what has been learned over the last twenty years. Through the exploration of the evolution of New York City's shelter system, this book discusses the permanency of shelters on the poverty landscape. The authors suggest that shelters are a surrogate for traditional low-...
Author(s): Craig Helmstetter, Shelly Hentricks, Laura McLain
Publication Date: 2004
This is the thirteenth annual report about the use of emergency shelters, transitional housing, and battered women’s shelters in Ramsey County. Emergency shelters and transitional housing programs participate in the project by providing client-level data that allows us to unduplicate the number of people served, track returns to shelter and total nights in shelter, and examine the flow between emergency shelter and transitional housing. Battered...
Author(s): Michael Camasso, Radha Jagannathan, Carole Walker
Publication Date: 2004
In this article we examine the impact of New Jersey’s Transitional Housing Demonstration Program (THDP) on families receiving public assistance in need of some form of permanent housing. We test the demonstration’s overall program logic that posits a causal linkage between organizational structure, participation in life skills activities, successful graduation from the program, and positive housing outcomes. Using a sample of 777 AFDC recipients...
Author(s): Craig Helmstetter
Home ownership in the Twin Cities is among the highest in the nation. The picture looks rosy. But is it? This report explains some of the challenges in the Twin Cities housing and rental market that are keeping people from finding housing they can afford, with implications for other areas in the country. The paper begins with one page summary of some key affordable housing statistics before providing some narrative discussion of trends and i...
Publication Date: 2006
Part II of Best Practices for Effecting the Rehabilitation of Affordable Housing, analyzes key rehab resources and barriers, and case studies of state and local efforts to overcome major regulatory impediments. See also <a href=http://www.familyhomelessness.org/CWIS/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=23... I: </a> for a complete description.
Publication Date: 2006
Part I: The rehabilitation of affordable housing faces many institutional and regulatory barriers. Because the existing stock varies so much in condition, age, and construction methods, the rehab process is far less predictable and in many ways more challenging than new construction. Nevertheless, the rehabilitation of the country's aging stock is a major resource for meeting the Nation's affordable housing needs. Despite the demonstrated benefit...
Publication Date: 2005
Evaluation of SAFAH was completed in September 1993 by the Urban Institute's Center for Public Finance and Housing. Information used in the analysis was drawn from grant applications, discussions with grantee staff, and onsite interviews at 21 SAFAH-funded projects. The analysis covered only the first two funding rounds of FY87 and FY90; Congress did not appropriate funds for FY88 or FY89. Grants from subsequent rounds in FY91 and FY92 were not i...
Publication Date: 2000
Develop methods for building broad-based coalitions that are vital to an effective change process. The more stakeholders are involved in building and affirming the need for change, the more momentum the change process will gather and the greater its impact. Learn how to integrate systems by stimulating dialogue among multiple parties to identify local problems and craft recommendations for creative solutions. (Authors)
Author(s): Jennifer Garner
Publication Date: 1999
A starting point for local rural organizations interested in learning to develop housing for low-income persons. Provides a basic overview of the housing development process, giving the reader the understanding necessary to move on to more detailed development information. (36 pages)
Author(s): Martha Burt, Dave Pollak, Abby Sosland, Kelly Mikelson, Elizabeth Drapa, Kristy Greenwalt, Patrick Sharkey, Aaron Grahm, Martin Abravanel, Robin Smith
Publication Date: 2002
In 2000, HUD contracted with the Urban Institute and its subcontractor, ICF Consulting, Inc. to conduct an assessment of the Continuum of Care approach. This study examined 25 Continuums of Care in all regions of the country. At the outset of the study, the Department was unsure whether the Continuum of Care concept had achieved detectable results in fostering a coordinated response to homelessness. For this reason, the study intentionally ident...