Washington state officials were already removing Housing First grant criteria weeks before the U.S. Department of Housing and ...

The notice of funding opportunity, or NOFO, for HUD’s Continuum of Care program, represents a major turning point in federal funding for homelessness services. The overhaul prioritizes funding for ...

Over the past 15 years, the Housing First approach has gained traction as an evidence-based solution to tackling homelessness in many developed countries, including Canada. The idea is simple: people ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. The Trump administration has turned its sites on something called the ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. The recent turmoil around federal behavioral health funding, ...

Housing First is the dominant approach to homelessness policy in America. Housing First proponents believe that permanent housing, subsidized by the government, is the only legitimate solution to ...

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 ...