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Overview: Out of Reach documents the gap between renters’ wages and the cost of rental housing. The report provides in-depth data for each state and the online companion site provides an interactive map where users can find data by zip code. Author: National Low Income Housing Coalition Date: 2017 Download: Out of Reach 2017

A report detailing Connecticut’s efforts to end homelessness in the state.

This report shines a spotlight on why robust employment, training, and related supportive services are key to the success of rapid re-housing participants.

A detailed examination of the rental affordability crisis in our nation.

Ten key principles and policy recommendations to help ensure that a youth’s involvement with the juvenile justice system does not increase the likelihood that they will experience homelessness, and that youth experiencing homelessness receive the services and supports they need instead of being cited, arrested, charged, or incarcerated.

An in-depth report on the housing affordability crisis in each state.

A guide to using the Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8) to end chronic homelessness.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s annual report on homelessness to Congress. Contains the latest data on homelessness in the U.S.

Two members of the National Youth Forum on Homelessness are following three communities as they undertake 100-Day Challenges to end youth homelessness.

A short introduction to Rapid Re-housing, an intervention designed to help individuals and families quickly exit homelessness and return to permanent housing.

A practical step-by-step roadmap for anyone leading the organization and execution of the count of youth experiencing homelessness in their community.

In light of the planned termination of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness’s (USICH’s) in 2017, this report looks at the effectiveness of the agency and the impact on ending homelessness if this agency were no longer in operation.

A mid-point learning assessment of the Reaching Home Campaign and Opening Doors—Connecticut

Actions and strategies to end youth homelessness prepared for the new administration.

A series of papers on ending youth homelessness that capture information from practitioners in the field about the strategies they find most successful to prevent and end homelessness among youth.

Case study of the Billings Forge Complex in Hartford, CT and the partnership between the Melville Trust and the Preservation of Affordable Housing.

A look at the current trends in housing affordability by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University

A toolkit for transitional housing building owners who have decided to convert their transitional housing project to permanent housing.