Resource Details

Rebuilding Systems: Adapting Housing Assessments to Prioritize Health, Equity, and Belonging

Year Developed: 2022

Resource Type: Publication.

Primary Audience: Enabling Staff Outreach Staff
Secondary Audience: Administrative Staff Board of Directors C-Suite (CEOs, CFOs, CIO, COOs, CMOs, etc.) Clinicians PCAs

Language(s): English

Developed by: National Health Care for the Homeless Council (See other resources developed by this organization).

Resource Summary: This document is designed to provide a framework communities can use to create equity within their CE process. There is no one tool that can accommodate the unique resources of all communities but applying this guidance will help achieve equity in the process.

Resource Details: The CE system develops an order of who should receive housing first based on a series of “vulnerabilities” that a person or family might have. Lack of affordable housing has necessitated this ranking system. HUD provides guidance3 on the types of risks that a community may choose to consider for prioritization, and may include specific illness, risk of victimization, frequency of use of emergency services, or continued risk of homelessness. This document is designed to provide a framework communities can use to create equity within their CE process. There is no one tool that can accommodate the unique resources of all communities but applying this guidance will help achieve equity in the process.

Resource Topic: Quality, , Special and Vulnerable Populations, Health Equity

Resource Subtopic: , Community, Health, and Housing Partnerships, Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), Quality Improvement.

Keywords: Blacks/African Americans, Case Studies, Evaluation, Hispanic Americans/Latinos, Latinas, Housing, Implementation Tools, Legal Issues, Medical Legal Partnerships (MLPs), Patient Demographics, Persons Experiencing Homelessness, Research.