Download or read book Rehousing Homeless Families in Massachusetts written by Laura Humm Delgado and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, three significant events related to family homelessness converged on the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). First, the shelters for homeless families in Massachusetts were at capacity, and over 1,000 homeless families had been placed in hotels and motels across the state. Second, Article 87 of the Amendments to the Constitution transferred the Commonwealth's Emergency Assistance (EA) program to the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), thereby designating DHCD to run the emergency shelter system for homeless families and individuals. Third, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development granted Massachusetts $45 million to implement the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP), a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. With the newly acquired responsibility to run the EA program, put HPRP into practice, and rehouse the homeless families, especially those in hotels and motels, in Massachusetts, DHCD developed "the Architecture." The Architecture introduced a new policy model for how to address homelessness in Massachusetts through prevention, diversion, rehousing, and stabilization. It also provided the narrative for the HPRP Request for Responses that DHCD released July 3 1, 2009. This thesis is an analysis of how two "best practice" agencies in Massachusetts put the HPRP policy into practice using the Architecture developed by DHCD. Those two agencies are Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership (MBHP) in Boston and the Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance (CMHA) in Worcester. The agencies' practices upon which this research focuses are rehousing and stabilization programs for homeless families, including landlord outreach and support. This thesis provides an analysis of how the agencies incorporate this new HPRP policy into existing practice while coping with the challenges and dilemmas they encounter along the way.

Download or read book Rehousing Homeless Families in Massachusetts written by Roger Emanuel Herzog and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emergency Assistance EA Advocacy Guide written by Ruth Bourquin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emergency Assistance EA Advocacy Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emergency Assistance EA Advocacy Guide written by Ruth A. Bourquin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emergency Assistance EA Advocacy Guide written by Ruth Bourquin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emergency Assistance EA Advocacy Guide written by Ruth Bourquin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emergency Assistance EA Advocacy Guide a Guide to Emergency Shelter and Rehousing Services for Homeless Families with Children in Massachusetts written by Andrea Park and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Where are They Now the Rehousing of Homeless Families in New York City written by Eric A. Novak and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Massachusetts HomeBASE Program written by Ellen Elizabeth Ward and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massachusetts is the only state in the US to maintain an emergency shelter entitlement for homeless families with its own dedicated line item in the state budget. However, in the last decade that line item has increased by 134%. In fiscal year 2011, Massachusetts spent more money on homeless services while at the same time serving more families through the Emergency Assistance (EA) system than ever before. In an attempt to rein in the cost and volume of participants in the system, the state underwent a major reform that culminated in the launch of a new program, HomeBASE, on August 1st, 2011. The program adopted a housing-first approach to serving families at imminent risk of homelessness that offered financial assistance for families to secure their own housing unit rather than entering an emergency shelter. This thesis looks at the implications of the housing-first policy shift and determines whether the program was able to achieve its intended goals: to reduce the cost and volume of the EA system. I find that the costs associated with offering 12-months of rental assistance are less than half of the average cost of serving a family in EA shelter. However, the savings are partially offset by the increase in demand for assistance when offering a housing subsidy instead of emergency shelter. To understand the reasons for the increased demand, I compare families enrolled in HomeBASE to EA shelter families from previous years to determine which, if any, factors contributed to demand. I find that HomeBASE did not attract a different population of families but merely more of the same. Using this analysis I make recommendations for how the state can modify the program using targeting tools and stabilization services to achieve its intended outcomes. These recommendations are relevant for other homeless policymakers and service providers as more and more programs adopt a housing-first approach to homelessness.

Download or read book A Path from Homelessness written by Nicole C. Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Plan to End Family Homelessness written by Massachusetts. Policy Academy on Family Homelessness and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emergency Assistance EA Advocary Guide a Guide to Emergency Shelter and Rehousing Services for Homeless Familes with Children in Massachusetts written by Amy M. Karp and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homeless Families written by Raymond D. Silva and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homeless Families on Cape Cod Massachusetts written by Lee M. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Supply of Permanent Supportive Housing in Massachusetts written by Nicholas Chiumenti and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Permanent supportive housing (PSH) has become an important resource for Massachusetts service providers working to address chronic homelessness in the state. Nationally, and in the Commonwealth, the number of PSH beds available for homeless individuals and families now exceeds the amount of emergency shelter beds and other, non-permanent, housing options. While PSH is acknowledged as an important tool, there has been little research into the inventory level needed to effectively house the stateâ€TMs current chronic homeless population, and what, if any, local shortages exist. This report uses publicly available inventory and homeless population count data to estimate the number of PSH beds needed to effectively house the chronically homeless individuals and families living in Massachusetts. In addition, this report looks at the Continuum of Care service regions to examine how differences in homeless populations affect local shortages of PSH within the state. The report finds that Massachusetts has made marked progress toward increasing the stateâ€TMs PSH inventory, with at least one PSH bed available per chronically homeless individual in 2016 and 2017. There remains, however, a statewide shortage in PSH beds for chronically homeless families. The situation may vary considerably across localities, with some areas experiencing PSH shortages while neighboring areas have surpluses. Finally, using incomplete data on planned additions to the PSH inventory shows that less progress has being made at alleviating these two differences in supply. There are still more individual beds than family beds being added, with inventory additions for both types of PSH decreasing, and only a handful of Continuums of Care planning new PSH beds for the coming years.

Download or read book Access to Emergency Shelter and Resources for Families Experiencing Homelessness written by Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: