Resources
National Partnerships
The Partnership to End Long Term Homelessness website features a searchable knowledge center of case studies, best practices, data and trends in the field of chronic homelessness. Specific strategies featured include supportive housing, prevention, and the systems changes needed to bring about the end of chronic homelessness. Other timely topic areas include homelessness in post-Katrina New Orleans; housing for individuals with AIDS, mental illness, and substance abuse; and other related topics.
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State Campaigns
The goal of the Reaching Home Campaign in Connecticut is to create 10,000 new units of supportive housing in Connecticut in 10 years. Connecticut, supportive housing has enjoyed both community and political support in the last decade. The Campaign seeks to broaden this base of support in order to achieve the ambitious goal of ending homelessness as we know it. The Reaching Home Campaign has produced a powerful video that is used throughout Connecticut and nationally, to demonstrate how homelessness can be ended through the development of supportive housing.
Reports, Publications, Articles
National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH)
Alliance Online News
NAEH publishes this weekly email newsletter which provides information and links about new developments in federal programs and policy, various research and analysis publications, best practices in the field, nonprofit resources, and upcoming national and regional conferences related to the issue of homelessness.
National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC)
Memo to Members
NLIHC closely monitors public policy on low-income housing and publishes a weekly Memo to Members including the latest developments from Capitol Hill and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Memos also include facts related to poverty and housing, resource listings and announcements of upcoming events.
Out of Reach
Out of Reach provides critical information to policy makers and advocates regarding the lack of affordable, decent housing. The report contains income and rental housing cost data for the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. It provides data on what renters must earn to keep their housing costs at 30 percent of their income, the general standard for affordability established by Congress and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC)
Opening Doors
A joint effort by TAC and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Housing Task Force, this free newsletter is designed to provide important information on affordable housing issues to people with disabilities, their families, advocates, and service providers across the United States.
Priced Out
A series of housing policy reports published as a joint effort by TAC and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Housing Task Force. These reports document the housing crisis faced by people with disabilities as a result of severe lack of income, increasing rental costs, and limited SSI benefits.
Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)
CSH supports the development of permanent housing opportunities linked to comprehensive services for persons who face persistent mental health issues, substance abuse, and other chronic health challenges, and are at risk of homelessness. They frequently publish reports, studies, and manuals aimed at helping nonprofits and government develop new and better ways to meet the health, housing and employment needs of those at the fringes of society.
Partnership for Strong Communities
Housing News Digest
Housing News Digest is a compilation of links to news articles from Connecticut’s major daily newspapers covering homelessness, affordable housing, supportive housing and other relevant issues.
Housing Policy Briefs
Housing Policy Briefs reports on and analyzes the impacts of federal and state housing policy developments in Connecticut.
Connecticut Voices for Children
Connecticut Voices for Children regularly generates publications on state legislation and policies that affect Connecticut’s children and families. They publish a wide array of reports on topics including: education, family economic security, health and mental health, and state tax and budget.