Permanent Supportive Housing Working Group Compendium: Research, Resources, and Recommendations
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Permanent Supportive Housing is California’s most effective response to homelessness, combining affordable housing with supportive services to help people with complex needs stay housed. Since 2020, NPH’s PSH Working Group has been bringing together developers and operators to address shared challenges, pool data, and develop practitioner-informed solutions, all while staying true to an evidence-based Housing First approach.
We’re proud to share what this innovative group has accomplished to date in our new Permanent Supportive Housing Working Group Compendium: Research, Resources, and Recommendations, a toolkit for the field drawing on the collective experience of NPH members who develop, own, and operate over 30,000 supportive homes.
The Compendium summarizes the resources we’ve developed to help PSH properties thrive. It shares:
- Operational tools and resources designed to strengthen our PSH community programs and services,
- Policy recommendations that can position regulating governing bodies and lawmakers with the best information and data to help defend the Housing First paradigm, and
- Shared resources, tools, and information to strengthen our programs and services overall from the practitioner perspective.