10 Year Plans to End Homelessness: Do they work?

By Tim Richter & Katrina Milaney – In the year 2000, the National Alliance to End Homelessness released a report calling for communities across the U.S. to develop and implement 10 year plans to end homelessness. The shift from managing homelessness to ending it...

In homelessness, diversity does not mean complexity

When you hear the word “homelessness,” what comes to mind? If you are like most people, you probably think of the men who sleep on the hot-air grates in downtown Toronto. That is the image that so often accompanies media stories about homelessness. Several things...

Is the ‘Housing First’ Model Overrated?

Just when I think I’ve got a debate resolved in my head, new research comes along and makes me think again. I’d like to put a question to blog readers… Last year, I wrote Last year, I wrote a policy paper on the Housing First model of rapid rehousing...