Success is Not an Accident
When the movement started towards communities developing 10 Year Plans to End Homelessness, I was skeptical. Not because I didn’t think having Plans was a good idea. They harnessed a lot of great...
View ArticleWellness and Recovery in Housing Support – Part 4 of 4
In Part Four of this blog series on Wellness and Recovery, I focus on what we would expect people in housing that are experiencing recovery to say they are seeking from their housing support worker,...
View ArticleWhen to Let Clients Go
In this blog I want to explore the transition of clients from being part of the active caseload in a time-limited housing support program to the point where they no longer need their housing case...
View ArticleWhat Does it Mean when Government Endorses a Housing First Approach?
More and more I am seeing different orders of government – municipalities, states, provinces, federal – slip the words “housing first” or “Housing First” into their documents, policy briefs and...
View Article2013 National Alliance to End Homelessness Conference: The Top 3 Things I...
Every summer, for almost a decade now, the Conference on Ending Homelessness put together by the National Alliance to End Homelessness in Washington, DC has been a highlight for me. It has become a...
View ArticleWhy People Don’t Believe the Facts
A few months back I lamented on my Facebook page that I was frustrated that I could have a room full of people and walk through the data and evidence supporting a Housing First approach, and people...
View ArticleThe Tallest Blade of Grass is the First to be Cut by the Lawnmower
(Thanks to B for inspiring this blog. Also, as an aside, if you love the Tallest Blade expression, I recommend getting the demotivational poster from despair.com…which is a spin on the Russian proverb...
View ArticleWaiting Lists to Nowhere for the “Un-houseable”: How Not to Do Coordinated...
Assessing for the sake of assessing sucks. That isn’t coordinated access. That is a bureaucratic response (and not just government) to the issue that solves nothing. Recently I was in a community that...
View ArticleWhat Makes Good Street Outreach in the Era of Coordinated Entry?
Once upon a time, a person curled up like a question mark on the sidewalk resulted in our best guess of what should be done. With coordinated entry come opportunities to use data in different ways to...
View ArticleDoes Rapid ReHousing Work? Well, it depends.
Seems there is no shortage of conversation and commentary about how rapid rehousing does not work, these days. NPR did a story on it. The Family Options Study findings from HUD paint a not-so-pretty...
View ArticleIt Ain’t Housing Only (For F Sake)
As you read this blog instalment this week, it is important you remember there is almost always a lag between when I write the blog and when it is posted. I especially do not want people to think I am...
View ArticleDisruption
All disruptors are innovators, but not all innovators are disruptors. The disruption comes when an innovative idea, product or way of performing an action completely changes how an industry works....
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