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27 March
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In News

By Nikita Stewart, William Neuman, and J. David Goodman Mayor Bill de Blasio embarked this month on one of the more challenging and unenviable tasks of his tenure: selling the virtues of a plan to open dozens of new homeless shelters across the city. But in doing so, the mayor has chosen to embrace a level of self-scrutiny unusual for a politician running for re-election. “We had crisis after crisis, and then it dawned onRead More →

22 March
On
In News, Policy and Advocacy

A Blog by Andy McMahon, Senior Vice President, Policy & External Affairs, CSH The word “infrastructure” normally conjures up thoughts of bricks and mortar. Investments like highways, pipelines, hospitals, schools and affordable housing development. But people, all of us, are infrastructure too. And when we examine the high return on investment (ROI) our nation receives from Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) and other federal investments in affordable and supportive housing, we cannot overlook theRead More →

22 March
On
In Uncategorised

Emergency shelters play a critical role in efforts to end homelessness. They provide people with a safe place to stay and help them quickly return to housing. The Alliance’s Center for Capacity Building has been focusing on learning about effective emergency shelter practices and working with various communities to help re-tool their systems. We spent the last few months providing technical assistance to emergency shelters all over Georgia. Our goal was to help them lowerRead More →

21 March
On
In News, Policy and Advocacy

If approved as is, the  federal budget proposal would reverse the incredible progress we have witnessed on the national level. The success we have achieved together — housing hundreds of thousands of Americans in need of a home to change the trajectory of their lives — is at risk. CSH will lead the charge and join forces with our partners to oppose any proposals that, if enacted, would kill jobs and proliferate poverty for generations toRead More →

17 March
On
In Uncategorised

Over the last year, there has been a dramatic expansion in the number of rapid re-housing (RRH) programs designed to serve youth. In 2016, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded over $15 million to RRH providers focusing on implementing the intervention for youth. And already in 2017, HUD’s Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) has awarded funding to 10 communities to build systems intended to end youth homelessness, supporting a wide rangeRead More →

15 March
On
In CFH Blog

The severe lack of affordable housing throughout New York City is a major driver of near-record homelessness. City efforts to address the affordability crisis must be expanded and accelerated to meet the unprecedented need and alleviate the suffering of over 62,600 men, women, and children languishing in shelters. On Wednesday, the Coalition for the Homeless and The Legal Aid Society submitted testimony to the New York City Council’s Committee on Housing and Buildings regarding theRead More →

15 March
On
In Uncategorised

Throughout our RRH Works campaign, we have heard about the five key strategies for advancing the intervention discussed at the Alliance’s Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) Leadership Summit held in Sept. 2016. Today we are making commitments to scale up RRH in our new document, Rapid Re-Housing Leadership Summit: What We Learned. Did you miss some of the resources during our RRH Works campaign? Here is a wrap-up of the blogs and resources we released during theRead More →

09 March
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In Uncategorised

In September 2016, the National Alliance to End Homelessness convened nearly 100 rapid re-housing (RRH) champions from around the country to develop a common vision about how we can advance RRH and discuss emerging knowledge, research and practice on the model. What we heard resoundingly is that RRH continues to be a primary solution for ending homelessness. It has been demonstrated to be effective in getting households into permanent housing and keeping them there. RampingRead More →

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