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HUD Policy Brief on Rapid Re-housing: Understanding the Impact and Potential for Health Centers - CSH

Health centers are increasingly participating in rapid re-housing, which helps individuals and families find stable housing with subsidies and services

Year Developed: 2019

Resource Type: Publication.

Primary Audience: Outreach Staff
Secondary Audience: Enabling Staff

Language(s): English

Developed by: Corporation for Supportive Housing (See other resources developed by this organization).

Resource Summary: Health centers need to understand the resources and how to access to support affordable housing for their clients. Rapid Rehousing is an effective housing intervention to quickly stabilize individuals and families to address their health and service needs.

Resource Details: Health centers are increasingly addressing the social determinants of health for their patient population through partnerships and linkages to local housing and service resources. The goal of rapid re-housing is to help individuals or families (with or without disabilities) who are experiencing homelessness, to move as quickly as possible into permanent housing and achieve stability. Health centers can play an important role in connecting these households to services.

Resource Topic: Special and Vulnerable Populations, , Promising/Best Practices

Resource Subtopic: Community, Health, and Housing Partnerships, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), Operational Feasibility, Implementation Feasibility.

Keywords: Housing, Community Engagement, Persons Experiencing Homelessness, Care Coordination , Residents of Public Housing.