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September 24, 2007The Skid Row Collaborative 2003-2007 : Process Evaluation |
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From Urban Institute: The Skid Row Collaborative (SRC) is one of 11 projects funded in fall 2003 under the Chronic Homelessness Initiative (CHI) in fall 2003 to demonstrate the feasibility of moving chronically homeless disabled people directly into housing and helping them retain housing with health, mental health, substance abuse, and other supportive services. Most of the 11 projects have had that time extended into the projects' fourth year because slow start-ups resulted in funds remaining to be spent at the end of the three-year grant period. In addition to the demonstration's goals for the outcomes of individuals served, the CHI was also intended to bring local public agencies into the business of ending chronic homelessness by making them parties to each local demonstration. The hope was that the demonstrations would stimulate system change in the direction of commitments to create and maintain permanent supportive housing programs, which need the resources of a variety of public agencies to operate at maximum effectiveness. Federal funding for all project components except housing subsidies (through HUD's Shelter Plus Care program) received less federal money each year as the CHI grant progressed, until all funding ceased at the end of the grant period. In not being able to secure support for its continuation from most of the public agencies that were partners to the demonstration, the SRC is in very good company.
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