Laying a New Foundation: Changing the Systems that Create and Sustain Supportive Housing

2003

This report draws on CSH’s decade of experience in advocacy and policy work to describe what successful public systems for creating supportive housing might look like—and how to build them.  Its lessons include a discussion of ten “building blocks” that have helped change systems.

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