Strategies For Improving Homeless People S Access To Mainstream Benefits And Services

Author : Martha R. Burt
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781437936810

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Strategies for Improving Homeless People's Access to Mainstream Benefits and Services by Martha R. Burt Pdf

In 2000, HUD, in recognition that any solution to homelessness must emphasize housing, targeted its McKinney-Vento Act homeless competitive programs towards housing activities. This policy decision presumed that programs such as Medicaid, TANF and General Assistance could pick up the slack produced by the change. This study examines how 7 communities sought to improve homeless people¿s access to mainstream services following this shift away from funding services through the Supportive Housing Program. Provides communities with models and strategies that they can use. Highlights the limits of what even the most resourceful of communities can do to enhance service and benefit access by homeless families and individuals.

Author : Martha R. Burt,Jenneth Carpenter,Ann V. Denton,Samuel G. Hall,Kathryn A. Henderson,John A. Hornik,Garrett E. Moran,Debra J. Rog
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1376400880

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Strategies for Improving Homeless People's Access to Mainstream Benefits and Services by Martha R. Burt,Jenneth Carpenter,Ann V. Denton,Samuel G. Hall,Kathryn A. Henderson,John A. Hornik,Garrett E. Moran,Debra J. Rog Pdf

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been funding transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and related supportive services projects for homeless people since 1988, under the authority granted by the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 and its subsequent modifications. When HUD began funding these projects under its Supportive Housing Program (SHP) as competitive grants, and later (starting in 1996) through the Continuum of Care (CoC) process, it gave applicants discretion to use HUD homeless funds for whatever mix of eligible activities they preferred. As a result, by 2000, nearly 60 percent of HUD homeless funds were being used by communities for services such as daycare and drug treatment, while the remaining funds were used for housing.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on an Evaluation of Permanent Supportive Housing Programs for Homeless Individuals
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309477079

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Permanent Supportive Housing by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on an Evaluation of Permanent Supportive Housing Programs for Homeless Individuals Pdf

Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuations in the economy and changes in the demographics of and attitudes toward poor and disenfranchised citizens. In recent decades, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the philanthropic community have worked hard to develop and implement programs to solve the challenges of homelessness, and progress has been made. However, much more remains to be done. Importantly, the results of various efforts, and especially the efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans in recent years, have shown that the problem of homelessness can be successfully addressed. Although a number of programs have been developed to meet the needs of persons experiencing homelessness, this report focuses on one particular type of intervention: permanent supportive housing (PSH). Permanent Supportive Housing focuses on the impact of PSH on health care outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. The report also addresses policy and program barriers that affect the ability to bring the PSH and other housing models to scale to address housing and health care needs.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Homeless persons
ISBN : UCBK:C069740204

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Homelessness by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : Linda Gibbs,Jay Bainbridge,Muzzy Rosenblatt,Tamiru Mammo
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520344662

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How Ten Global Cities Take On Homelessness by Linda Gibbs,Jay Bainbridge,Muzzy Rosenblatt,Tamiru Mammo Pdf

Creative solutions for global cities addressing their urgent homeless crises. This book takes on perhaps the most formidable issue facing metropolitan areas today: the large numbers of people experiencing homelessnes within cities. Four dedicated experts with first-hand experience profile ten cities—Bogota, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Houston, Nashville, New York City, Baltimore, Edmonton, Paris, and Athens—to explore ideas, strategies, successes, and failures. Together they bring an array of government, nonprofit, and academic perspectives to offer a truly global perspective. The authors answer essential questions about the nature and causes of homelessness and analyze how cities have used innovation and local political coordination to address this pervasive problem. Ten Global Cities will be an invaluable resource not only for students of policy and social work but for municipal, regional, and national policymakers; nonprofit service providers; community advocates and activists; and all citizens who want to collaborate for real change. These authors argue that homelessness is not an insurmountable social condition, and their examples show that cities and individuals working in coordination can lead the charge for better outcomes.

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Homelessness
ISBN : OSU:32435056181506

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Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act by United States Pdf

Author : Christopher P. Dum
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231542395

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Exiled in America by Christopher P. Dum Pdf

Residential motels have long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans—released prisoners, people with disabilities or mental illness, struggling addicts, the recently homeless, and the working poor. Cast aside by their families and mainstream society, they survive in squalid, unsafe, and demeaning circumstances that few of us can imagine. For a year, the sociologist Christopher P. Dum lived in the Boardwalk Motel to better understand its residents and the varied paths that brought them there. He witnessed moments of violence and conflict, as well as those of care and compassion. As told through the voices and experiences of motel residents, Exiled in America paints a portrait of a vibrant community whose members forged identities in response to overwhelming stigma and created meaningful lives despite crushing economic instability. In addition to chronicling daily life at the Boardwalk, Dum follows local neighborhood efforts to shut the establishment down, leading to a wider analysis of legislative attempts to sanitize shared social space. He also suggests meaningful policy changes to address the societal failures that lead to the need for motels such as the Boardwalk. The story of the Boardwalk, and the many motels like it, will concern anyone who cares about the lives of America's most vulnerable citizens.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Homeless persons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029561011

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Homelessness by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : IND:30000145265769

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Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2016 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : PURD:32754077067696

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Reauthorization of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1820 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : LOC:00092835479

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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2002: Department of Health and Human Services by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing, and Community Opportunity
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Homeless children
ISBN : MINN:31951D03526892Z

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The Homeless Children and Youth Act of 2011 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing, and Community Opportunity Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428985438

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Strategies for Reducing Chronic Street Homelessness by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Ellen Hombs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216118602

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Modern Homelessness by Mary Ellen Hombs Pdf

This in-depth examination reviews fundamental changes of the past decade that have reduced homelessness in the United States and other Western democracies. Focusing on the last decade, Modern Homelessness: A Reference Handbook examines the issue in the United States and in other nations that have adopted new strategies to address homelessness—and achieved notable results in preventing and ending it. The handbook covers the unprecedented reductions first announced in 2007 and the crucial shifts in strategy and investment, and the results that brought them about. These fundamental changes are analyzed to identify the factors that proved most effective in altering the national and local dialogue and response relative to this daunting issue. In addition to a brief history of homelessness in contemporary times, the handbook examines key developments of the past decade in research, policy, housing models, and service delivery that have been shown to decrease homelessness. These include active partnership among the governments of the United States, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, and others that moved the discussion in a new direction. The story is brought up to date with a consideration of the effects of the 2008 economic crisis.

Author : National Symposium on Homelessness Research,United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Homeless persons
ISBN : UOM:39015064772794

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Practical Lessons by National Symposium on Homelessness Research,United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development Pdf