Trump Says ‘Housing First’ Failed the Homeless. Here’s What the Evidence Says.

The Trump administration has sought to move away from the model, which supporters call “evidence based” but opponents ...
Davis VanguardOpinion

Opinion | Housing First Didn’t Fail — America Failed to Build Housing

The Trump administration is attempting to redistribute billions of dollars in federal homelessness aid away from Housing ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

This program gets homeless people into housing fast. Will it be one of the last?

Homeless residents still have to apply for those units. Applicants can be rejected. Yet Brilliant Corners offers landlords a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Psychology Today

'Housing First' Addresses the Revolving Door of Homelessness

This post was co-authored by Adrian Parham and Robert T. Muller, PhD. On any given night, more than 12,000 people in Toronto experience homelessness, with about three-quarters of these individuals ...
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 ...
Finance & Commerce

Housing experts share outlook for residential construction

Twin Cities housing construction is falling short of demand as interest rates, costs and regulations limit new supply heading ...