Information and publications on a variety of issues related to homelessness. The following publications are available for free:
Affordable Housing
Chronic Homelessness
Colorado Community and Interagency Council on Homelessness
Education
Hate Crimes
Health Care
Homeless Children and Families
Homeless Incidence and Trends
Point-in-Time Studies
Rural Homelessness
Veterans
Voting
A Guide to Re-entry Supportive Housing: A Three-Part Primer for Non-Profit Supportive Housing Developers, Social Service Providers and Their Government Partners.
Ball, L., Cho, R., Gary, D., Ladov, M. (2002, April). Corporation for Supportive Housing. Retrieved January 12, 2009 from: http://consensusproject.org/downloads/housing-guide.pdf
America’s Rental Housing: The Key to a Balanced National Policy.The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University (2008). Retrieved January 6, 2009 from: http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/publications/rental/rh08_americas_rental_housing/index.html
Decade of Neglect Has Weakened Federal Low-Income Housing Programs.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (2009). Retrieved March 17, 2009 from http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2691
Denver Housing First Collaborative: Cost benefit analysis and program outcomes report.
Parvensky, J. & Perlman, J. (2006). Retrieved December 20, 2008 from: http://mdhi.org/download/files/Final%20DHFC%20Cost%20Study.pdf
Developing Integrated Housing for Homeless and Low-Income Families: A Resource Guide for Developers in Colorado.
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (2005, January) Click here to read report
More Than Shelter: A Grantmaker’s Guide to Housing Programs and Policy.
Collins, J. (2006, July) Retrieved January 4, 2009 from: http://www.nfg.org/publications/housing_2006.pdf
Out of Reach 2009.
National Low-Income Housing Coalition. (2009, April).
Retrieved April 16, 2009 from http://nlihc.org/oor/oor2009/
PRICED OUT IN 2008 - The Housing Crisis for People with Disabilities.
By Emily Cooper, Henry Korman, Ann O’Hara, and Andrew Zovistoski. Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc. Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, Housing Task Force. (2009, April). Retrieved April 16, 2009 from: http://www.tacinc.org/Docs/HH/Priced%20Out%202008.pdf
The State of the Nation's Housing 2009
. Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (2009). Retrieved July 8, 2009 from: http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/publications/markets/son2009/son2009.pdf
Without Housing – Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks Massive Homeless and Policy Failures. Western Regional Advocacy Project. (n.d.) Retrieved on November 1, 2008 from: http://www.wraphome.org/index.php/tools
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Chronic Homelessness
Blueprint for Change: Ending Chronic Homelessness for Persons with Serious Mental Illnesses and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders.
Atay, J.E., Brown, D., Henderson, M.J., Manderschied, R.W. (2000) Center for Mental Health Services. Mental Health Directory, DHHS Pub.No (SMA) 01-3503. Washington, D.C.: Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, 20402. http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/SMA04-3870/default.asp
People Who Experience Long-Term Homelessness: Characteristics and Interventions.
Anderson, J., Caton, C., Wilkins, C. (2007). Retrieved on November 3, 2008 from: http://www.huduser.org/publications/pdf/p4.pdf
Acting to End Homelessness: Recommendations to Governor Ritter.
(2008, October). Click here to read report.
Status Report: Top 12 Recommendations. (2009, September). Click here to read report.
Classrooms with Revolving Doors: Recommended Practices for Elementary Teachers of At-Risk and Highly Mobile Students. Grant, L., Popp, P., Stronge, J. (n.d.). National Center for Homeless Education. Retrieved October 10, 2008 from:
http://www.serve.org/nche/downloads/eff_teach_elem.pdf
Hate, Violence, and Death on Main Street U.S.A. – A Report on Hate Crimes and Violence Against People Experiencing Homelessness 2007. National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Policy. (2008, April). Retrieved April 20, 2008 from:
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/hatecrimes/index.html
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Health Care and Public Service Use and Costs Before and After Provision of Housing for Chronically Homeless Persons With Severe Alcohol Problems. Journal of the American Medical Association (2009). Retrieved January 5, 2010 from:
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/301/13/1349
The Cost of Care: Can Coloradans Afford Health Care. Colorado Center on Law and Policy (2009). Retrieved June 24, 2009 from: http://www.cohealthinitiative.org/upload/AFFORDABILITYStudy_FINAL042809.pdf
The Positive Impacts of Affordable Housing on Health: A Research Summary. Enterprise Community Partners and the Center for Housing Policy. (2007). Retrieved January 5, 2009 from: http://www.nhc.org/pdf/chp_int_summary_hsghlth0707.pdf
Premature Mortality in Homeless Populations: A Review of the Literature. O’Connell, J., (2005, December). National Health Care for the Homeless Council. Retrieved September 1, 2008 from: http://www.nhchc.org/PrematureMortalityFinal.pdf
Primary Care Access: An Essential Building Block of Health Care Reform (2009, March). National Association of Community Health Centers. Retrieved June 24, 2009 from:http://www.nachc.com/client/documents/pressreleases/PrimaryCareAccessRPT.pdf
UNCENSORED American Family Experiences with Poverty and Homelessness. Institute for Children and Poverty. Retrived March 10, 2010 from:
http://www.icpny.org/pdf/Uncensored_Winter2010.pdf
2009 KidsCount in Colorado! Colorado Children's Campaign. Retrieved June 24, 2009 from: http://www.coloradokids.org/includes/downloads/kidscount2009forweb.pdf?PHPSESSID=635e68cc5c6fafc60ba9bc962466f249
2008 KidsCount Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-being. The Annie E. Casey Foundation. (2008). Retrieved January 5, 2009 from: http://www.kidscount.org/datacenter/databook.jsp
America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness describes the plight of America’s homeless children. The National Center on Family Homelessness. (2009). Retrieved March 16, 2009 from: http://www.homelesschildrenamerica.org/report.php
Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction Task Force 2009 Community Report. Retrieved January 25, 2010 from: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheader=application/pdf&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1251606062829&ssbinary=true
Examination of Residential Instability and Homelessness among Young Children. Institute for Children and Poverty (2009). Retrieved November 3, 2009 from: http://www.icpny.org/index.asp?CID=4&PID=83
Moving the Needle on Poverty: An Up-to-Date Look at What States are Doing to Alleviate Hardship Among Children and Families. Colorado Children’s Campaign (2008, October 1). Retrieved October 11, 2008 from: http://www.coloradokids.org/includes/downloads/movingtheneedle.pdf?PHPSESSID=8d4a98b79cd6f6cdfba748d99b1e212a
Promising Strategies to End Family Homelessness. The National Alliance to End Homelessness. National Alliance to End Homelessness and Freddie Mac (2006, June). Retrieved January 5, 2008 from: http://www.endhomelessness.org/content/article/detail/999
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A Dream Denied: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities.The National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (2006, January). Retrieved January 5, 2009 from: http://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/crimreport/report.pdf
A Guide to Counting Sheltered Homeless People. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development. (2006, October). Retrieved January 5, 2009 from: http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/library/webcast101006/guide_to_counting_sheltered.pdf
Aid to Needy Disabled (AND) Program
The Aid to Needy Disabled (AND) Program was established by the Colorado General Assembly in 1953 as an "interim assistance program" for people waiting for their federal Social Security benefits to begin.
http://www.coloradocoalition.org/!userfiles/Advocate/AND/CCH-AND_Fact_Sheet10-16-09.pdf
Creating Community Employment Pathways. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development. (2009, April). Retrieved May 5, 2009 from: http://hudhre.info/documents/CEPGuidebook.pdf
Fannie Mae: Homelessness in America: Americans’ Perceptions, Attitudes and Knowledge – General Population Survey & City Survey. Gallup, Inc. (2007, November). Retrieved January 5, 2009 from: http://www.fanniemae.com/media/pdf/GP_Citiesfinal.pdf
Foreclosure to Homelessness 2009: The Forgotten Victims of the Subprime Crisis. National Alliance to End Homelessness, the National Healthcare for the Homeless Council, the National Coalition for the Homeless, the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, the National Low Income Housing Coalition and the National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness (2009, June). Retrieved July 1, 2009 from: http://www.endhomelessness.org/content/article/detail/2409
Homelessness Counts: Changes in Homelessness from 2005-2007. National Alliance to End Homelessness. (n.d.) http://www.endhomelessness.org/content/article/detail/2158
Homelessness in Colorado: A State of Emergency.
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (2008, December). Read the Report
Hunger and Homelessness Survey: A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities, A 27-City Survey. The United States Conference of Mayors (2009, December). Retrieved January 12, 2010 from: http://www.usmayors.org/pressreleases/uploads/USCMHungercompleteWEB2009.pdf
Hunger and Homelessness Survey: A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America’s Cities, A 25-City Survey. The United States Conference of Mayors. (2008, December). Retrieved January 5, 2009 from: http://www.usmayors.org/HHSurvey2007/hhsurvey07.pdf
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008. United States Census Bureau. (2009, September). Retrieved September 10, 2009 from: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/014227.html
Number of Homeless Families Climbing Due to Recession: Recovery Package Should Include New Housing Vouchers and Other Measures to Prevent Homelessness. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. (2009, January). Retrieved January 10, 2009 from: http://www.cbpp.org/1-8-09hous.htm
The 2008 Annual Homeless Assessment Report. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development (2009, July). Retrieved July 9, 2009 from: http://www.hudhre.info/documents/4thHomelessAssessmentReport.pdf
The Suburbanization of Poverty: Trends in Metropolitan America, 2000 to 2008. Garr, E., Kneebone, E. (2010, January). The Brookings Institution. Retrieved February 15, 2010 from: http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2010/0120_poverty_kneebone.aspx
The Third Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development. (2008, July). http://hudhre.info/documents/3rdHomelessAssessmentReport.pdf
Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research. http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/homelessness/symposium07/index.htm
Two Steps Back: City and Suburban Poverty Trends 1999-2005. The Brookings Institution. (n.d.). Retrieved October 10, 2008 from: http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2006/12poverty_berube.aspx
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Denver Metropolitan Area 2009 Homeless Point-In-Time Key Findings. Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative. (2009) Retrieved September 15, 2009. http://mdhi.org/download/files/2009%20Point%20in%20Time%20Report%209-23-09.pdf
Colorado Statewide Homeless Count, Winter 2007. Colorado Community and Interagency Council on Homelessness. (2007). Retrieved September 1, 2008 from: http://www.colorado.gov/cich/Winter%20Report 20Release/Winter_2007_Statewide_PIT.pdf
Homeless Point in Time Study – City and County of Denver, March 12, 2008. The Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Supportive Housing and Homeless Programs. Retrieved February 10, 2009 from:
http://www.cdhs.state.co.us/shhp/PDFs/Point-and_timeFullReport_2008.pdf
National Action Agenda on Poverty for the Next President of the United States. The United States Conference of Mayors (2008, September). Retrieved September 15, 2008 from: http://www.usmayors.org/maf/documents/20081027-Poverty.pdf
Overlooked and Undercounted: Struggling to Make Ends Meet in Colorado. Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute. Pearce, M. (2007, March) Retrieved September 1, 2008 from: http://www.cclponline.org/ccs/documents/CCLPBooklet_FINAL.pdf
Rural America At A Glance: 2009 Edition. United States Department of Agriculture (2009, September). Retrieved September 23, 2009 from: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EIB59/
Toward Understanding Homelessness: The 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research: Rural Homelessness.Fischer, P., Fritz, N., Harris, N., Noftsinger, R., Robertson, M. (2007). Retrieved September 1, 2008 from: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/homelessness/symposium07/robertson/index.htm
Vital Mission: Ending Homelessness Among Veterans. The Homelessness Research Institute at the National Alliance to End Homelessness (2007, November). Retrieved January 5, 2009 from:
http://www.endhomelessness.org/content/article/detail/1839
Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States. The Sentencing Project. (2008, September). Retrieved October 1, 2008 from:
http://www.sentencingproject.org/Admin/Documents/publications/fd_bs_fdlawsinus.pdf
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