Housing First is an evidence-based failure

What, then, explains the unwavering belief among Housing First evangelicals that their solution to homelessness is ...
The Hill

Homelessness isn’t helplessness, but Housing First assumes it is

Editor’s Note: This story was updated to correct a figure associated with state spending on homelessness programs. We regret the error. In a 2006 New Yorker article ...
The NationOpinion

The Tunnel Home: A Story of Housing First

In the 1990s, a group of New Yorkers helped prove the effectiveness of a bold but simple approach to homelessness. Now Trump ...
The American Conservative

The Fall of Housing First

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 ...
KJZZOpinion

CASS CEO says homeless services can still succeed as Trump attacks housing-first programs

In November, HUD announced deep cuts to permanent housing programs for people experiencing homelessness. They wanted to shift ...
Seattle Times

Housing First is our best tool among many to combat homelessness

The persistence of homelessness frustrates everyone, no matter your politics, beliefs or assumptions. However, the strategy of moving homeless people directly into housing that also provides social ...
The Heritage Foundation

The “Housing First” Approach Has Failed: Time to Reform Federal Policy and Make it Work for Homeless Americans

Christopher was a Visiting Fellow for Domestic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Policymakers must rethink the federal government’s Housing First policy, which has failed to reduce overall ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Is the Housing First model helping to end homelessness? Or does it enable drug users?

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — A generally accepted practice of providing housing to homeless people even if they continue to use drugs is being criticized as a failure because it does not mandate treatment and ...
KHON2

‘Housing First’ program making a positive difference in the lives of hundreds

HONOLULU – Three years since the city’s Department of Community Services began the Housing First program, a total of 315 vouchers have been funded, which provides housing support through rental ...
The Columbian

Can Housing First work in the face of Clark county’s fentanyl crisis? Residents say apartments are rife with drug use and crime

Heidi Leonard lives at The Pacific apartments, but some days, the 51-year-old wishes she were still homeless. In 2020, after a decade of homelessness, Leonard received a call that a one-bedroom ...
Next City

Where Housing Comes First When Solving Homelessness

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. People experiencing homelessness need stable housing. In ...
Finance & Commerce

Housing First sues Edina over tree ordinance fees

Developers say fees and escrow deposits exceed city authority Lawsuit cites $1M+ in tree replacement costs since adoption Case follows similar challenges in Dayton, Corcoran and Woodbury A ...