Washington state officials were already removing Housing First grant criteria weeks before the U.S. Department of Housing and ...

The notice of funding opportunity, or NOFO, for HUD’s Continuum of Care program, represents a major turning point in federal funding for homelessness services. The overhaul prioritizes funding for ...

For nearly two decades, everyone in Washington believed in Housing First. Housing First holds that homelessness is a housing problem that can be solved—note the word “solved”—by giving the housing to ...

Over the past 15 years, the Housing First approach has gained traction as an evidence-based solution to tackling homelessness in many developed countries, including Canada. The idea is simple: people ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. The Trump administration has turned its sites on something called the ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. The recent turmoil around federal behavioral health funding, ...

More than 650,000 Americans experienced homelessness on any given night last year ‒ a 12% increase since 2022. Chronic homelessness is also worsening, with over 143,000 people homeless for at least a ...

Housing First is the dominant approach to homelessness policy in America. Housing First proponents believe that permanent housing, subsidized by the government, is the only legitimate solution to ...

In Utah, we have a commitment to ending chronic homelessness utilizing something called the Housing First model. There are a lot of misconceptions about what the Housing First model is and how it ...