Strategies for Preventing Homelessness
Strategies for Preventing Homelessness
Homelessness prevention is an essential element of any effort to end homelessness either locally or nationwide.
To close the front door of entry into homelessness, the central challenge of prevention is targeting our efforts toward those people that will become homeless without the intervention.
The study documents these approaches in six communities with the hope that other communities might learn how to carry out similar efforts.
The study identifies elements of community homelessness prevention strategies that seem to lead to reductions in the number of people who otherwise would become homeless.
Every day in the United States, families and single adults who have never been homeless lose their housing and enter a shelter or find themselves on the streets.
Compared to poor, housed children, homeless children have worse health (more asthma, upper respiratory infections, minor skin ailments, gastrointestinal ailments, parasites, and chronic physical disorders), more developmental delays, more anxiety, depression and behavior problems, poorer school attendance and performance, and other negative conditions.
