Rapid Re-Housing for Homeless Populations: Program and Community Strategies for Recruiting Private-Market Landlords & Overcoming Housing Barriers

This practice brief discusses housing barriers commonly faced by homeless households and highlights promising and successful techniques, tools, and policies agencies and communities across the country are utilizing to build partnerships with landlords and overcome these barriers. Communities wishing to develop new, or strengthen existing, rapid re-housing initiatives can look to these strategies as models for adaption, recognizing that replication is not realistic nor even desirable, given that conditions, needs, resources, and opportunities vary from one community to another.

Publication Date: 
2010
Location: 
USA