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Ending Chronic Homelessness: Market Research by Root Cause

This page provides statistics, research, and data related to the issue of chronic homelessness compiled by Root Cause. It includes a social issue report, state-by-state statistics, a list of organizations working to combat chronic homelessness, and links ...

(tips/guidelines, webpage, 2012)

Populations Experiencing Homelessness: Diverse barriers to employment and how to address them

People experience homelessness for many reasons including financial insecurity, a lack of affordable housing, and difficulty accessing services such as medical care. The risk for homelessness is especially high among certain groups including low-income ...

(research/study, document (pdf), 2012)

National Alliance to End Homelessness: About Homelessness

Homelessness is a complex problem, fraught with many associated challenges and variables. But for all of its complications, the solution to homelessness is surprisingly simple – housing. This section of the National Alliance to End Homelessness website ...

(research/study, webpage, 2012)

2012 Homeless Counts Media Map

This map serves as a database of January 2012 point-in-time counts that have been reported in media reports or on Continuum of Care/government websites. Red markers indicate reports of increases and green markers indicate reports of decreases in ...

(tips/guidelines, online tool, 2012)

On the Ground with Comprehensive Community Initiatives

This publication summarizes the major programs of the 10 initiatives studied in the area of neighborhood revitalization. It discusses program issues including sources and amounts of funding as well as positive individual and neighborhood impacts. This ...

(case/model, text, 2000)

Raise the Roof: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 8

This 8th issue of Beyond Profit Magainze takes on social enterprise in the areas of urbanization, population and housing. ...

(essay/opinion, text, 2011)

Getting to the Root Cause of Homelessness

This article from Community Solutions examines the root causes of homelessness, provides suggestions on how this complicated social problem can be addressed at its root cause, and highlights the successes of a community project that has taken a root cause ...

(essay/opinion, webpage, 2011)

Orascom Housing Communities

Egypt suffers from an extreme shortage of low-income housing. There is a back-log of these units reaching 1.2 million with an annual increase of at least 150,000 units. Orascom Hotels and Development (OHD), a developer of high-end housing communities, ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Moladi: An Affordable Housing Solution for the Poor?

Moladi utilizes a unique plastic injection molded technology to produce cast-in-place mortar structures. The process allows unskilled laborers to use indigenous materials to quickly and cheaply construct high standard permanent buildings that are ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Appropriate Development, Architecture and Planning Technologies (ADAPT)

This case study looks at the urban planning strategies used by a local architecture consultancy firm called ADAPT (Appropriate Development, Architecture and Planning Technologies). It examines how they meet the opportunities of building, upgrading and ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Social Entrepreneurs Ireland

A brief introduction to some of the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland 2010 Finalists. ...

(caselet/profile, video, 2010)

Preventing Veteran Homelessness

Nearly 154,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. Another half million are at risk of homelessness because rent consumes more than half their income. In his run for the White House, President Obama pledged to deliver on a zero-tolerance policy for ...

(essay/opinion, audio, 2009)

Preventing and Ending Homelessness-Next Steps

Across the country, communities are working to end homelessness by investing in Housing First approaches that help families and single adults get back into permanent housing. Until recently, many of these communities were reducing homelessness. Today, the ...

(research/study, text, 2009)

Can Public Housing Overcome Its History of Racial Discrimination and Segregation?

The Urban Institute Press hosts a panel discussion about a new book -- Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation -- that explores the aftermath of racial discrimination and segregation and its implications for poor families and their children. Can ...

(essay/opinion, audio, 2009)

Community Revitalization in the United States and the United Kingdom

The flow of ideas between the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) includes approaches to housing policy, as the public sectors in both countries have turned toward the private sector to help provide affordable housing and support redevelopment ...

(research/study, text, 2009)

Creating alternative futures for youth (Uncommon Heroes: Dorothy Stoneman)

After graduating from Harvard, Dorothy Stoneman joined the civil rights movement and lived in Harlem for 20 years. Seeing abandoned buildings, homeless people and idle youths moved her to start YouthBuild to create a positive future for low-income young ...

(caselet/profile, video, 2009)

Architecture for Humanity

Cameron Sinclair was 23 when he founded Architecture for Humanity, a non-profit charity that puts architects and designers to work on disaster relief. He talks with To the Best of our Knowledge about his philosophy of 'Design like you give a ...

(caselet/profile, audio, 2009)

India: "Design Like You Give A Damn" (Building sustainable communities, not trophy homes)

In the aftermath of 2004's devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, FRONTLINE/World reporter Signeli Agnew travels to Tamil Nadu in Southern India to see the work of a new movement of architects looking to help solve humanitarian problems through innovative ...

(caselet/profile, video, 2008)

Microfranchising at the Base of the Pyramid

This paper explains the whys and hows of microfranchising in low-income markets and builds on the efforts of Acumen Fund. ...

(case/model, text, 2008)

Keeping Up the Good Work: A Practitioner’s Guidebook for Building a Job Retention Culture for People Who Experience Homelessness

This guidebook offers tactical tips and tools on how to increase job retention for people who have experienced homelessness. ...

(toolkit/manual, text, 2008)