HUD Housing First Update

On April 6, 2023, HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) will host a virtual PD&R Quarterly Update on Housing First, a service model that addresses homelessness by quickly getting individuals and households experiencing homelessness into housing without any preconditions or barriers. Opening remarks will be provided by Jeff Olivet from the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. After a housing market update from PD&R’s Kevin Kane and a data spotlight segment from PD&R’s Veronica Helms Garrison, the event will feature two panel discussions. The first panel will highlight Housing First activities in Richmond, New Orleans, Houston, and Mississippi, and the second panel will do a deeper dive into the work being done in Seattle, Washington. Opening Remarks Jeff Olivet, Executive Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) Update on U.S. Housing Market Conditions Kevin Kane, Chief Housing Market Analyst, Economic Market Analysis Division, PD&R/HUD Data Spotlight Veronica Helms Garrison, Analyst, PD&R/HUD Panel: Communities in Action Moderator: Norm Suchar, Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs at HUD Kelly King Horne (she/her), Executive Director, Homeward Martha J. Kegel, Executive Director, UNITY of Greater New Orleans Ana Rausch, Vice President of Program Operations, Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County Mary Simons, Executive Director and CEO, Open Doors Homeless Coalition Panel: Housing First in Seattle Panel Moderator: Margaret Salazar, HUD Regional Administrator, Region 10 David Canavan, Owner, Canavan Associates Marc Dones (they/them), CEO, King County Regional Homelessness Authority Felicia Salcedo (she/her), Executive Director, We Are In We hope you can join PD&R for this discussion on Housing First. We also invite you to participate in the event via social media by following @HUDUSERnews. We’ll be tagging our updates with #PDRUpdate.

 HOMELESS INFORMATION: MARYLAND

Search for Services

• Help hotlines
• Shelter
• HUD Resource Locator
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Are you at risk of losing your home?

• Contact a housing counselor
• Emergency rental assistance
• Avoid foreclosure
• Help with your utility bills
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Other Maryland Resources

Food banks

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
• Homeless service groups
• Legal assistance
• Social Security offices
• Homeless Veterans
• United Way
• Jobs and job training
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• Source: US Department of HUD at https://www.hud.gov/states/maryland/homeless.

Fewer Homeless Veterans Using Shelters, Study Finds

A Quarter of Homeless are Veterans

Among the various findings in a just-released government report entitled "Veteran Homelessness: A Supplemental Report to the 2010 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress" by the U. S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Veteran Affairs, as reported in the New York Times - are:

• Homeless veterans are most likely to be middle-aged white men with a disability.
• Younger veterans are more than twice as likely to be homeless than non-Veterans in the same age group.
• California has the most homeless veterans of any state, about 25% of the total.
• The number of veterans who used emergency shelters or transitional housing for the homeless in 2010 dropped 3% from the year before, to 144,842, from 149,465.
• Veterans continue to be overrepresented in the nation’s homeless population. They are 13% of all homeless adults in shelters, although just over 9% of the total adult population. Once veterans fall into poverty, a higher percentage of them become homeless, about one in nine.