For nearly two decades, everyone in Washington believed in Housing First. Housing First holds that homelessness is a housing problem that can be solved—note the word “solved”—by giving the housing to ...
Over the past 15 years, the Housing First approach has gained traction as an evidence-based solution to tackling homelessness in many developed countries, including Canada. The idea is simple: people ...
Federal officials announced the release of a new “Treatment First” toolkit that they said is meant to change the government’s ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. The Trump administration has turned its sites on something called the ...
This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. The recent turmoil around federal behavioral health funding, ...
Housing First is the dominant approach to homelessness policy in America. Housing First proponents believe that permanent housing, subsidized by the government, is the only legitimate solution to ...
This post was co-authored by Adrian Parham and Robert T. Muller, PhD. On any given night, more than 12,000 people in Toronto experience homelessness, with about three-quarters of these individuals ...
Canadians spend big money dealing with the consequences of homelessness, but the money spent could be far more effective. According to a new McGill-led analysis, housing homeless people with severe ...