05/21/09

State of Maine Releases New Data on Cost Savings for Rural Counties Implementing Permanent Supportive Housing Strategies (read) (report)

04/09/09

New Illinois Data Document Savings in Health Care Treatment and Law Enforcement after Supportive Housing Placement (read)

Minnesota Supported Housing and Managed Care Evaluation Shows Success of Permanent Housing Strategy (read)

New San Diego Cost Data Expands Understanding of Housing and Mental Health Intervention (read)

   - Also USICH 1/9/09 Innovations article - San Diego Cost Analysis Led to New Strategies, Partnerships, and Planning to End Homelessness  (read) 

04/02/09

New Data from Seattle’s 1811 Eastlake Housing First Initiative Demonstrate 50 Percent Reduction in Costs and $4 million savings  (read)

   - Also 2008 Report

New State Data on Health Care Costs in Massachusetts Shows Dramatic Medicaid Savings through Housing First Initiative (read)

   - Also view 8/14/08 New Results in Ending Chronic Homelessness as MA Home and Healthy For Good Initiative Posts New Data in Ending Chronic Homelessness and Saving Tax Dollars (read)
   - 01/11/08 enews  (read)
   - July 7, 07 enews  (read) (report)

Sioux Falls and Minnehaha County, South Dakota Report 50 Percent Reduction in Public Costs for People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness with Dramatic Health Care Savings (read)

02/12/09

New Cost Analysis from Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio Underscores Expense of Homelessness and Random Ricocheting Through Public Systems. (read)

02/06/09

In Kentucky, Cost Analysis Drives Political Will and Search for Solutions to Homelessness (read)

10/02/08

Tucson, AZ Reports $3.8 Million Savings through Use of Homeless Court (read)

09/24/08

New Cost Data Emerges in California on Ending Random Ricocheting of Frequent Users of Health Services through Housing (read)

09/05/08

Texas Big Cities Convene to Affirm Strategies to End Chronic Homelessness- Fort Worth Mayor Moncrief Discusses Cost Study Numbers in his community (read)

08/14/08

Denver City Council Approves Reinvestment Strategy to Use Cost Savings for New Housing Investment to End Chronic Homelessness (read)

05/12/08

Cost Benefit Analysis and Consumer Satisfaction: Results from Philanthropic Investment to End Chronic Homelessness in Housing First RI ( reported as part of USICH Innovation Series)  (read)

03/12/08

First Scientific Research on Hospital-to-Home Housing Strategy in Chicago Shows Successful Stabilization and Cost Savings (read)

01/17/08

New Cost Benefit Research from North Carolina Affirms Permanent Supportive Housing and Health Results (read)

01/11/08

New Seattle Cost Savings Data Show Results From Housing First Initiatives in 10 Year Plan (read)

09/27/07

Portland, Maine Announces Third Annual Decrease in Chronic Homelessness and Releases New Cost Data (read)

03/07/07

Dr. Dennis Culhane, University of Pennsylvania PowerPoint Presentation, Emerging Research on the Costs of Homelessness, at USICH Second Annual National Summit on Innovation for Jurisdictional Leaders.  

Steve Werthman, Broward County, PowerPoint Presentation on Cost Savings/Avoidance associated with HHOPE Consumers in Permanent Supportive Housing 

   - 05/25/06 enews

01/06/06

New USICH Toolkit released:  Good . . . to . . . Better. . . to . . .  Great: Innovations in 10 Year Plans to End Chronic Homelessness in Your Community Discusses Cost Implications Citing a Variety of Community Cost Studies (read)

12/08/05

Gainesville and Alachua County FL Bring New Cost Insights to Table from Health Care and Law Enforcement in Development of 10 Year Plan (read)

10/07/05

Atlanta’s Cost Benefit Analysis Shows Results as City Adds $20 million in New Revenue to Blueprint Implementation (read)

07/21/05

Waco, TX Adopts 10 Year Plan Based on Cost Benefit Analysis and Housing First Approach (read)

12/09/04

New Asheville/Buncombe County, North Carolina 10 Year Plan Stresses Economic Costs and Housing Outcomes (read)

11/18/04

HUD report, "Strategies for Reducing Chronic Street Homelessness,” cites Philadelphia, San Diego and Columbus, OH for making good use of cost data. (read)