Photo Credit:  KRDO.com

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​Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:  "People with disabilities who lived in supportive housing after release from jail or prison were 61 percent less likely to be re-incarcerated one year later than those not offered supportive housing"

Colorado has been a leader in Supportive Housing as have other States and for that matter Municipalities----BUT for most people in their systems --- it is NOT CLEAR these governmental subdivisions are LEADERS because the SUPPORTIVE HOUSING & INTENSIVE SERVICES are so FAR FROM SCALE.

One Idea  

A bipartisan housing group, commission ---  to formulate with stakeholders a housing plan for people with disabilities that has measurable goals, reasonable time Frames, & ProposeS Funding to support the Plan

Housing & Homelessness Index

Housing

• CMS -- Coverage of Housing-Related Activities -- June 26, 2015
• ​CO Housing, Scale & Minnesota Court-Ordered Measurable Housing Goals
• Housing
• Denver Data Shows That Housing Chronically Homeless People Saves Money & Lives
• Phoenix Arizona--- 'HOUSING IS HEALTH CARE':   IT'S 30% CHEAPER TO PROVIDE HOUSING TO PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
• ​A CONUNDRUM FOR THE STATES -- A NIGHTMARE FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS:              THE ADA & OLMSTEAD REQUIRE STATES TO PROVIDE HOUSING IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO AVOID UNNECESSARY INSTITUTIONALIZATION; BUT HOUSING IS NOT A FEDERAL ENTITLEMENT LIKE MEDICAID
• Denver’s new apartment building caters to homeless who have been traumatized after years on the streets. (Denver Post)
• Housing First
• NEW JERSEY'S SPECIAL NEEDS HOUSING TRUST FUND

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D News
"The Surprising Way People Become Homeless"
[Brain Injury]

​Huffington Post:  "The Disturbing Link Between Brain Injury & Homelessness"

• HUD Guidance on Housing & Criminal Records

• REASONABLE HOUSING WAIT 60 DAYS -- ACCORDING TO NEW NOTICE FROM HUD
  -- WHAT ARE THE OLMSTEAD RAMIFICATIONS?

• Waking Rip Van Winkle: Why Developments in the Last 20 Years Should Teach the Mental Health System Not to Use Housing as a Tool of Coercion    (Bazelon)


• Housing as Healthcare
• LA:  10,000 Units of Housing Linked to Public Health System
• More Resources on Supportive Housing

US Inter-Agency Council on Homelessness

• Aligning Hearts, Heads, & Budgets to End Chronic Homelessness in 2017

Housing & Criminal Convictions -- Resources

• Colorado Legal Services
• HUD Guidance on Housing & Criminal Records
• SonRise Properties

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Housing Resources from Colorado Legal Services (CLS)

• CLS -- Eviction
• CLS -- Homelessness
• CLS -- Public Housing
• CLS -- Subsidized Housing
• CLS -- Landlord/Tenant/Renting
• CLS -- Housing Discrimination
• CLS -- Section 8 Vouchers

Housing Trust Fund Resources

• National Housing Trust Fund
• Housing Trust Fund Project​
• Supportive Housing for People with Mental Illness (National Governor's Association Center for Best Practices)  "New Jersey established a $200 million special needs trust fund that creates a capital pool for supportive housing which prioritizes housing for people with mental illnesses." -- p. 5
• Resources listed above also listed on this Orchid page available for sharing Housing Trusts

New York City's Right to Shelter

The "Right to Shelter" helped New York overcome its homeless overcrowding problem.

​Could it work for LA?

NYC:

​Governed by a unique right to shelter mandate, New York City provides temporary emergency shelter to every man, woman, and child who is eligible for services, every night.

​This policy sets New York apart from municipalities across the nation−many of which turn homeless individuals and families away once shelters have filled up or simply put their names on a waiting list.

Olmstead Housing
​Data Dashboard

Hi Val, 
Quick update: don't think I mentioned this but I have been staying at the park in [deleted], Colorado since October.  I am in no condition most of the time to drag myself to the library to correspond, but I do get here once in a while.  I was telling one of my fellow park residents about Orchid the other day and just wanted to say again thanks for standing in solidarity with some of Colorado's Least Wanted...Happy 2017!  Feel free to get in touch via e-mail if there's anything I can do or should know...blessings!

Received January 17, 2017

Living Big In A Tiny House​

Jay Shafer's Stunning $5,000 Tiny Home

[Jay Shafer is the "Godfather" of the Tiny Home Movement & he was formerly homeless.]

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A Man Sleeps Under a Tarp Photo Credit: Kevin J. Beatty/Denverite

171 Homeless People Died in Denver in 2016
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The 171 homeless people who died in 2016 “are the highest numbers that we’ve seen,” said Cathy Alderman of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.

How Finland Solved Its Homeless Crisis while Numbers Increase Across Europe

​1 News (New Zealand Public Broadcast Service) (2018)

What's The SCOOP?

• ​The State says they have been following the activity with social impact bonds
• Upon our inquiry, the State is internally meeting with:
  • Alison George -- Director of the Division of Housing under the CO Dept. of Local Affairs,
  • The CO Dept. of Heath Care Policy & Financing [in part Denver used social impact bonds to fund assertive community treatment],
  • The CO Office of State Planning & Budgeting [OSPB], and 
  • City & County of Denver Staff [Denver successfully used social impact bonds to fund Housing & ACT]
• In our original e-mail to the State we included Cathy Alderman, Vice President of Communication & Policy Policy with the the CO Coalition for the Homeless, Moe Keller, Director of Advocacy for Mental Health Colorado & Julie Reiskin, Executive Director of the CO Cross Disability Coalition..
• ​We are anticipating our next update from the State on or before March. 15, 2019.

Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority