• Defining and Funding the Support in Permanent Supportive Housing: Recommendations from Health Centers Serving Homeless People (2008), 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.



• The Applicability of Housing First Models to Homeless Persons with Serious Mental Illness (2007), Department of Housing and Urban Development – presents findings from an exploratory study of the Housing First approach of providing permanent supportive housing to single, homeless adults with mental illness and co-occurring substance-related disorders, and provides a basic description of several programs that represent a Housing First model.



• Denver Housing First Collaborative Cost Benefit Analysis and Program Outcomes Report (Dec. 2006)– demonstrates improved health status of chronically homeless individuals and reduced costs of emergency room care, hospitalizations, incarceration and detox during the first 2 years of the Denver Housing First Collaborative, a permanent supportive housing initiative created by the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.



• Impact of Permanent Supportive Housing on the Use of Acute Care Health Services by Homeless Adults (2006) – results of a San Francisco study which found that providing permanent supportive housing to homeless people with psychiatric and substance use disorders reduced their use of costly hospital emergency department and inpatient services.



• Family Permanent Supportive Housing-Preliminary Research on Family Characteristics, Program Models, and Outcomes (2006) – findings from 12 supportive housing programs that serve families, one of the first empirical studies to examine the effectiveness of permanent supportive housing for families and characteristics of the clients served.



• Supportive Housing Helps Break Cycle of Homelessness (Dec. 2003), HCH Clinicians’ Network – describes the broad range of housing options linked to a variety of supportive services for formerly homeless people, which have been demonstrated to reduce shelter use, emergency and inpatient care, and incarceration.

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• Financing Supportive Housing Services Sources – information about the range of financing options for the services provided to supportive housing residents, compiled by the Corporation for Supportive Housing



• Providing Health Care in Permanent Supportive Housing - presentation by John Parvensky, Director, Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, Denver, CO, at the 2007 National HCH Conference



• Housing is HIV Prevention and Health Care - findings from the National Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit Series convened by the National AIDS Housing Coalition in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health



• SSI/SSDI, SOAR and Supportive Housing: Tools in Recovery - presentation by Debi Dennis and Yvonne Perret for a CSH Hot Topics call, May 2007

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• 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.



• Medicaid, SCHIP & Homelessness - policy statement of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council: recommends comprehensive Medicaid benefits including services in permanent supportive housing.

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• Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) – CSH helps communities create permanent housing with services to prevent and end homelessness by providing high-quality advice and development expertise, by making loans and grants to supportive housing sponsors, by strengthening the supportive housing industry, and by reforming public policy to make it easier to create and operate supportive housing.



• Permanent Supportive Housing Working Group – convened by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, in collaboration with CSH, to explore ways to increase the capacity of Federally Qualified Health Centers to participate in permanent supportive housing:
       Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Boston, MA
       Central City Concern, Portland, OR
       Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, Denver, CO
       Hazard Perry County Community Ministries, Inc., Hazard, KY
       Health Care for the Homeless Network, Seattle, WA
       Heartland Health Outreach, Inc., Chicago, IL
       Homeless Outreach & Advocacy Project, Worcester, MA
       Housing and Urban Health, Dept. of Public Health, San Francisco, CA
       Institute on Homelessness and Trauma, Newton Centre, MA
       LifeLong Medical Care, Inc., Berkeley, CA
       Partnership Health Center, Missoula, MT
       Philadelphia Health Management Corp., Philadelphia, PA
       Project Renewal Health Services, New York, NY
       Puget Sound Neighborhood Health Centers, Seattle, WA
       Saint Joseph’s Mercy Care Services, Atlanta, GA
       Skid Row Homeless Health Care Initiative, Los Angeles, CA

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