This policy brief compares the costs of prevention and crisis responses to make the economic case for investing earlier. It is for governments, funders and decision-makers who need evidence to assess where homelessness investments can produce stronger outcomes and better value.
Want to learn more about the economics of youth homelessness prevention?
- For a specific prevention model: Read Brief 8: Upstream Canada: The Economic Case for School-Based Youth Homelessness Prevention for the economic case behind school-based early intervention.
- For what it takes to expand prevention: See Brief 6: How to Effectively Take Homelessness Prevention Innovation to Scale for the conditions needed to move effective approaches beyond individual pilots.
- See Solving Canada’s Homelessness Crisis Starts Here: Why Preventing Youth Homelessness Is Critical and How to Do it Effectively for a report synthesizing all 24 briefs and evidence on why youth homelessness prevention works, what it costs, and how to implement it.
