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The Housing First Approach toEnding
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History/Cause

• Welfare Reform
• High rate of Domestic Violence
• Declining Purchasing Power of Low Income Jobs
• Decrease in Availability of Affordable Family
  Housing

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Emergency and Transitional Housing

• Emergency shelters and transitional housing are
  steps alone the path..but they are stepping
  stones. If at the end of our efforts,
  interventions and other support, the homeless are
  still homeless or at risk of another episode of
  homelessness then what have we really
  accomplished?

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Homelessness Ends

• When an individual or family is stabilized in
  permanent, affordable housing
• Whatever that permanent housing type may be and
• Whatever the support systems that must be in
  place to help them stay there

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NAEH 10 Year Plan

• In 2000, The National Alliance to End
  Homelessness produced a Ten Year Plan to End
  Homelessness in the United States.
• Within that Plan, the housing first approach
  provides the focus of services to homeless
  families.
• The emphasis of the housing first methodology
  is on the immediate return of homeless families
  to permanent housing in residential neighborhoods

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HUD Continuum of Care Model
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Outreach Intake Assessment
Traditional Housing No services
Emergency Shelter
Transitional Housing
Supportive Housing
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Modifications to the Continuum of Care
Outreach Intake Assessment
Service-Enriched Permanent Housing
Emergency Shelter
Permanent Housing With time-limited Home-Based Cas
e Management
Transitional Housing
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The Housing First Approach

• Moves homeless persons into permanent rental
  housing as quickly as possible, with the services
  traditionally provided in transitional housing
  provided after relocation into permanent rental
  housing.
• The basic goal of housing first is to break
  the cycle of homeless and prevent a recurrence.

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The Housing First Approach

• The housing first approach provides a critical
  link between the emergency and transitional
  housing systems and the community-based social
  service, educational, employment and health care
  organizations that bring about stability,
  neighborhood integration and improved health and
  welfare of families and individuals

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Premises of Housing First

• Permanent housing should be the central goal of
  our work with people experiencing homelessness.
• By providing permanent housing assistance
  immediately and up-front, we can significantly
  reduce or eliminate the time people spend in
  homelessness

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• Everyone has the right to a standard of living
  adequate
• For the health and well-being of himself and his
  family,
• Food,
• Clothing,
• HOUSING ,
• and medical care

• necessary social services,
• the right to security

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• In the event of
• unemployment,
• sickness,
• disability,
• Widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood
  in circumstances beyond his control.