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This
page offers insights into Innovative Initiatives that are preventing
and ending homelessness. Here you will find a far-ranging set of replicable
efforts focused on our common mission to eliminate homelessness with
especial attention to this Administration's goal of eliminating chronic
homelessness.
Whether collaborations between the business community and homeless
providers, housing initiatives supported by managed care organizations,
new housing technologies, research that impacts our country's streets,
or borrowed service methodologies, this page offers the reader innovative
ideas that support our common objective, ending homelessness.
And we won't limit ourselves to these shores. Whenever we discover
an initiative that supports the goal, we'll make that new "technology"
available to you, wherever its origin.
The focus will, of course, be on those initiatives that have documented
outcomes that result in ending homelessness. Independent corroboration
is an important element in any such determination, as are results.
Our Last Innovation Series of the Year: 08 in 08
Eight more replicable innovations to prevent and end homelessness.
Innovation #1 |
Preventing Homelessness:
Ventura County, California Creates Prevention Fund to Further 10 Year Plan Goals |
Innovation #2 |
DC Downtown Partnership: From the streets and long-term homelessness to Housing First |
Innovation #3 |
Volunteers + Consumers + Policymakers:
Using Project Homeless Connect to "Connect"
Consumers to Policymakers Through a Unique Yearbook Initiative |
Innovation #4 |
Housing First - How Consumer Preference Shapes the Central Antidote to Homelessness |
Innovation #5 |
Listening to the Consumer: In Massachusetts, Engaging Consumers about their Mental Health Experiences Delivers Quality Research for Policymakers |
Innovation #6 |
Building Tulsa, Building Lives |
Innovation #7 |
IDignity: Restoring Dignity and Creating a Trajectory Out of Homelessness by Securing Identification for Housing, Jobs, and Hope |
Innovation #8 |
From Data to Investment to Results: Partnerships for solutions that end homelessness for people who are homeless and addicted to alcohol... |
5 (More) Innovations in 5 Days
Five ideas for creating dedicated revenue streams to prevent and end homelessness.
Innovation #1 |
Miami-Dade County Food and Beverage Tax: A Dedicated Revenue Source Invested for Results |
Innovation #2 |
Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA) Uses Redevelopment Tax Increment Housing Funds to Create Housing for People who are Chronically Homeless |
Innovation #3 |
Seattle's Housing Levy |
Innovation #4 |
Atlanta's Homeless Opportunity Bonds |
Innovation #5 |
New Jersey's Special Needs Housing Trust Fund: Traffic Fines Help Create Housing to Prevent and End Homelessness |
Presenting “20 in 20”. . .
Twenty replicable innovations that are achieving results in preventing or ending homelessness are presented below. These innovations were profiled in daily special editions of the Council's e-newsletter throughout May 2008.
Innovation #1 |
Virginia CASH Campaign (Creating Assets, Savings and Hope) |
Innovation #2 |
Reporting Results in 10-Year Plans: Sacramento’s Scorecard |
Innovation #3 |
Securing an ID for persons who are homeless - A Project Homeless Connect innovation from Norfolk and SF |
Innovation #4 |
Measuring Local Results in Ending Homelessness through a State Plan: Washington State's Intergovernmental Partnership |
Innovation #5 |
Federal-State Partnership to create the Prince Home as new permanent supported housing for homeless veterans with disabilities |
Innovation #6 |
Cost Benefit Analysis and Consumer Satisfaction: Results from Philanthropic Investment to End Chronic Homelessness in Housing First RI |
Innovation #7 |
Inter-Faith Ministries' Kansas Benefit Bank: A One- Stop Solution to Access Mainstream Resources to Prevent and End Homelessness |
Innovation #8 |
Project Re-Connect: Achieving Successful Reentry for Ex-Prisoners through St. Louis' 10 Year Plan |
Innovation #9 |
Ohio's Special Courts:
The courts as leader and partner in preventing and ending chronic homelessness |
Innovation #10 |
Denver's Parking Meter Initiative Fosters Community 10 Year Plan Engagement and Reduces Panhandling |
Innovation #11 |
Soldier On: Success in the Community through an Employment and Housing Strategy with Results for Homeless Veterans in Massachusetts |
Innovation #12 |
[Road] Map to the Future: Chicago's Homeless System Mapping Project Plans to End Homelessness |
Innovation #13 |
King County, WA Jail Initiative for Veterans: Improving outcomes, reducing recidivism, and cutting costs |
Innovation #14 |
St. Paul Police Department partners for housing solutions to chronic homelessness |
Innovation #15 |
Creating Housing, Closing Shelters, Ending Homelessness: Transforming policy and practice in one community agency in Massachusetts |
Innovation #16 |
Innovating the Innovation of Project Homeless Connect:
Video sharing and social networking "show" real results in
ending homelessness |
Innovation #17 |
Researching Risk, Ending Homelessness: A replicable strategy
targets the most vulnerable and disabled people living on the
streets |
Innovation #18 |
Put on Your Traveling Shoes: Make a pilgrimage to see what’s
working |
Innovation #19 |
Academia: How many roles can a partner play in new initiatives to prevent and end homelessness? |
Innovation #20 |
Listening to the consumer:
In San Diego, how delivering what homeless veterans wanted yielded the national innovation of Homeless Courts |
Read More Innovative Initiatives on Partnership, Prevention/Discharge Planning, Permanent Housing, Health Care, and Data and Research
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