October 16 Housing First Training Agenda

Registration for the October 16 training event at Holyoke Community College has been open for a few weeks, and many have already registered.  For those of you waiting for an […]

Published in Best Practices on August 14, 2014.

New Resource on the VI-SPDAT

Community Solutions Inc. and OrgCode have just released the 2014 manual for using the VI-SPDAT, which answers some of the questions raised by the Individual Services Committee yesterday and provides […]

Published in Best Practices, Resources on August 8, 2014.

Best practices for CoCs: Rapid Rehousing

HUD is providing a weekly series of messages in advance of the CoC Program funding competition.  The messages highlight best practices and identify federal funding priorities. The second message is […]

Published in Best Practices, Continuum of Care on August 6, 2014.

Springfield is ending chronic homelessness

I’ve been thinking about the Zero:2016 campaign, and considering what it would take to get us to zero. I note that, for Springfield, that’s the goal we set in 2007 […]

Published in Best Practices on August 6, 2014.

We can do this! Zero: 2016

Announcement from Community Solutions: Zero: 2016 is a rigorous follow-on to the 100,000 Homes Campaign designed to help an elite group of communities do whatever it takes to end chronic […]

Published in Best Practices on August 3, 2014.

Best practices for CoCs: Housing First

HUD is providing a weekly series of messages in advance of the CoC Program funding competition.  The messages highlight best practices and identify federal funding priorities.  The first of these […]

Published in Best Practices, Continuum of Care on July 25, 2014.

HOT Housing is Here!

The Housing Options Tool (HOT) is now live! Many of you have seen demonstrations of the HOT over the past few months, so you know that it provides an online […]

Published in Best Practices, Coordinated Assessment on July 22, 2014.

Upcoming Webinar: HUD and USICH: Core Principles of Housing First and Rapid Re-Housing – July 22, 2014 – 1:30 PM EDT

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) are sponsoring a webinar on July 22, 2014, which will focus on the core […]

Published in Best Practices on July 21, 2014.

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