Permanent Supportive Housing

NHCHC Publications

• NEW: Policy and Practice Brief: Clinical Challenges in Permanent Supportive Housing. This brief highlights issues faced by clinicians in the field in providing direct services and makes policy and practice recommendations to help strengthen this growing model of care.  The brief is also directed at administrators and policymakers so they may better understand these challenges and work to reduce common barriers. After reading the brief, please complete a brief evaluation here.
• Defining and Funding the Support in Permanent Supportive Housing: Recommendations from Health Centers Serving Homeless People (2008), prepared by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council for the Corporation for Supportive Housing – describes the involvement of Federally Qualified Health Centers in permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless people with disabling conditions; specifies PSH services and service models most likely to promote long-term stability, recovery and improved health; and proposes more adequate and reliable funding mechanisms to sustain these services. To read the full report, click here.

Other Resources

• Permanent Supportive Housing Tool Kit, 2010, developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), this tool kit guides communities in developing a supportive housing program using a scattered site model.
• Cost Savings with Permanent Supportive Housing, Interactive tool developed by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, March 2010
• Tool Kit for Developing and Operating Supportive Housing, compiled by the Corporation for Supportive Housing, this tool kit covers everything from financing supportive housing to the provision of supportive services.
• USICH – HHS/CMCS Listening Session with Supportive Housing Providers using Integrated Care Models | October 21, 2010
• Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Individuals: Literature Synthesis and Environmental Scan, January 6, 2011, U.S Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

Policy Positions

• Housing and Homelessness – policy statement of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council: recommends permanent supportive housing (PSH) to provide our most vulnerable neighbors with secure housing and sufficient supportive services.