Trump Says ‘Housing First’ Failed the Homeless. Here’s What the Evidence Says.

The Trump administration has sought to move away from the model, which supporters call “evidence based” but opponents ...
The Hill

Homelessness isn’t helplessness, but Housing First assumes it is

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 ...
The American Conservative

The Fall of Housing First

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 ...
Seattle Times

Housing First is our best tool among many to combat homelessness

The persistence of homelessness frustrates everyone, no matter your politics, beliefs or assumptions. However, the strategy of moving homeless people directly into housing that also provides social ...
The Heritage Foundation

The “Housing First” Approach Has Failed: Time to Reform Federal Policy and Make it Work for Homeless Americans

Christopher was a Visiting Fellow for Domestic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Policymakers must rethink the federal government’s Housing First policy, which has failed to reduce overall ...
Forbes

Trump Targets Housing First Strategy

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 ...
KHON2

‘Housing First’ program making a positive difference in the lives of hundreds

HONOLULU – Three years since the city’s Department of Community Services began the Housing First program, a total of 315 vouchers have been funded, which provides housing support through rental ...
The Columbian

Can Housing First work in the face of Clark county’s fentanyl crisis? Residents say apartments are rife with drug use and crime

Heidi Leonard lives at The Pacific apartments, but some days, the 51-year-old wishes she were still homeless. In 2020, after a decade of homelessness, Leonard received a call that a one-bedroom ...
Finance & Commerce

Housing First sues Edina over tree ordinance fees

Developers say fees and escrow deposits exceed city authority Lawsuit cites $1M+ in tree replacement costs since adoption Case follows similar challenges in Dayton, Corcoran and Woodbury A ...
Psychology Today

'Housing First' Addresses the Revolving Door of Homelessness

This post was co-authored by Adrian Parham and Robert T. Muller, PhD. On any given night, more than 12,000 people in Toronto experience homelessness, with about three-quarters of these individuals ...
Eugene Weekly

Housing First?

Walk through downtown Eugene and you’ll see shops, restaurants, bars, kids on bikes, artists, business people, random pedestrians … and part of this quirky city scene is an assortment of panhandlers, ...