Supportive Housing Policy Platform for Pennsylvania

CSH, in partnership with Regional Housing Legal Services (RHLS), conducted numerous listening sessions to engage partners during a year long planning grant to develop a supportive housing policy platform for Pennsylvania. This platform seeks to raise awareness of key policy issues that prevent communities throughout Pennsylvania from creating the supportive housing needed for marginalized members of their communities. Through several listening sessions, CSH and RHLS identified more than a dozen recommendations for policy changes in Pennsylvania and kept track of the most commonly occurring recommendations. A Core Review Coalition was consulted to further identify the policy changes that would have the highest impact on the creation and sustainability of supportive housing in PA, highlighted below. The hope for this platform is to guide statewide policymakers, housing developers, service providers, and housing advocates in the collective goal to end homelessness and create communities that thrive in the commonwealth.

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