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Strategies for Preventing Homelessness

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The Strategies for Preventing Homelessness report is now
available. HUD commissioned this exploratory study to
identify and document communities that have implemented
effective and well-targeted community-wide homelessness
prevention strategies and have data to illustrate their
effectiveness. This report documents the prevention
approaches in six communities with the hope that other
communities might learn how to carry out similar efforts.

The study identified a number of promising prevention
activities that could be used alone or in combination as
part of a coherent community-wide strategy. The promising
prevention activities include:

1) Supportive services coupled with permanent housing,
particularly when combined with effective discharge
from institutions (especially mental hospitals);
2) Mediation in Housing Courts;
3) Cash assistance for rent or mortgage arrears; and
4) Rapid exit from shelters.

The report is available as a free download at
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publications/homeless/prevent_homelessness.html
or in print for a nominal fee by calling HUD USER at
1-800-245-2691, Option 1.

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