Ending Chronic Homelessness Among People with Disabilities

Last updated on November 30, 2018

Supportive housing implemented through a Housing First approach has been shown to help people with disabilities permanently stay out of homelessness, improve their health conditions, and significantly reduce their use of costly crisis services.  

What's Driving Progress

By prioritizing people experiencing chronic homelessness for existing supportive housing, and by creating opportunities to bring new units online, communities have made many more units available for people experiencing chronic homelessness with the highest needs.

Communities are also strengthening their assertive outreach and engagement, lowering barriers to emergency housing and services, and quickly linking people to permanent housing in order to bring the number of people experiencing chronic homelessness to as close to zero as possible.

What You Can Do

• Review the Criteria and Benchmarks for Ending Chronic Homelessness to see what it takes to end chronic homelessness in your community.
• Learn about the 10 essential strategies communities are using to drive progress toward ending chronic homelessness. 
• Read the latest data about chronic homelessness.