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Housing First flips how cities fight homelessness, and the evidence behind it is hard to ignore.
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In this episode
- What Housing First actually means and how it works in practice
- Why stable housing has to come before other support services
- How individual case-work shapes the help each person receives
- What the evidence says about addressing homelessness this way
About this episode
Whether it’s medical care, addiction treatment, counseling — or whatever the issue might be that individual case-work would reveal — many people experiencing homelessness need more than stable housing. But there’s evidence that without first offering someone a stable home, all those other issues can’t be properly addressed. That is a concept called “Housing First.”
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