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Resources and information for families and child welfare agencies about housing needs and services for low-income families, including families receiving child welfare services. Resources include State and local examples.

• Housing & child welfare
• Housing for relative/kinship caregivers
• Housing for youth transitioning from foster care

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Housing and Homelessness
Child Welfare League of America
Overview of programs available to assist families with housing issues.

Resilient Children in Distressed Neighborhoods: Evidence From the HOPE VI Panel Study
Eiseman, Cove, & Popkin
Metropolitan Housing and Communities Center Brief, 7, 2005
HOPE VI, a federally funded program, targets the nation's most distressed public housing developments with comprehensive efforts to improve physical, economic, and social environments. This report explores factors that help make children more resilient and better able to cope with obstacles in their environment. (PDF - 106 KB)

Tools to End Homelessness Among Families: What State and Local TANF Agencies Can Do to End Family Homelessness (PDF - 2360 KB)
National Alliance to End Homelessness (2004)
Strategies that State and local Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) agencies and administrators can implement to help families facing homelessness.

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State and local examples

Family Support Center Village: A Unique Approach for Low-Income Single Women and Children
Graber & Wolfe
Journal of Family Social Work, 8(1), 2004
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Describes a program that incorporates a service enriched co-housing model and provides single mothers opportunities to develop tools for success and independence.

Finding and Keeping Affordable Housing: Analyzing the Experiences of Single-Mother Families in North Philadelphia
Clampet-Lundquist
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 30(4), 2003
Examines housing challenges faced by low-income single mothers in two Philadelphia neighborhoods, strategies they used to secure housing, and the disadvantages of those arrangements.

New Directions in Supportive Housing for Families (PDF - 390 KB)
National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center
The Source, 13(1), 2004
Overview of efforts by The Women's Institute for Housing and Economic Development in Boston to develop housing for families affected by substance abuse.

Spanning the Neighborhood: The Bridge Between Housing and Supports for Families: Community Strategies for Preventing Homelessness and Family Crisis (PDF - 931 KB)
Center for New York City Affairs (2005)
Discusses a substantial new effort to root homelessness prevention in neighborhood-based safety net programs run by well-known, trusted community organizations.

Treating Substance-Using Women and Their Children in Public Housing: Preliminary Evaluation Findings
Metsch, Wolfe, Fewell, McCoy, et al.
Child Welfare, 80(2), 2001
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The Key West Housing Authority created SafePort, a residential substance abuse treatment program within public housing, to provide drug treatment to parenting women. All family members (women, children, and significant others) received comprehensive assessments to determine appropriate therapeutic interventions to resolve their problems.

Working With Families Facing Severe Hardship: Lessons From the Families in Transition Program (PDF - 305 KB)
Bliss, London, & Tanguay (2005)
Families in Transition is a nonprofit organization helping families who are homeless or at risk for homelessness secure stable housing, increase employment and income, and address barriers to self-sufficiency.

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Updated on March 1, 2010