Ideas at work
Find initiatives and collaborations working on housing-related issues and learn about effective strategies for action.
initiatives and collaborations
Affordable Housing: Making it a Reality
Regional mayors' task force identifies ways to meet need for more affordable housing.
Changing the face of housing
Seeks to correct the significant under-representation of communities of color in affordable housing processes and decisions in Minnesota.
The Emerging Markets Homeownership Initiative
Public-private partnership to increase home ownership in communities of color.
Heading Home Hennepin
Ten year plan to end homelessness in Minneapolis and Hennepin County.
Heading Home Minnesota
A statewide initiative to end the cycle of homelessness.
Minnesota's Plan to End Long-Term Homelessness
The state's vision to end homelessness by 2010.
Research-based strategies
Listed below are proven, effective strategies linked to reports that
provide data and information about how the strategies were implemented.
- Builder supports: incentives and removal of regulatory barriers (2)
- Counseling to lower risk of foreclosures (3)
- Ideas that work: Building communities through homeownership
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, August 2006, 90 pp.
Offers practical advice on how to establish homeownership programs. It draws on the experiences and successes of HUD's Office of University Partnerships (OUP) grantees nationwide who have developed and implemented a variety of programs and initiatives that promote homeownership. - The cost-effectiveness of community-based foreclosure prevention
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 2005, 39 pp.
Examine the cost-effectiveness of community-based foreclosure prevention interventions using two proxy measures: time to resolution and the rate of recidivism. - Strategies for preventing homelessness
Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, May 2005, 210 pp.
Identifies and documents effective community-wide homeless-prevention strategies implemented in six communities with the hope that other communities will carry out similar efforts.
- Housing linked to jobs and transit (1)
- Low-cost housing with support services (7)
- The applicability of Housing First models to homeless persons with serious mental illness
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, July 2007, 209 pp.
This report presents the findings from an exploratory study of the Housing First approach of providing permanent supportive housing to single, homeless adults with mental illness and co-occurring substance-related disorders. - A synthesis of findings from the study of affordable housing plus services for low- and modest-income older adults
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, August 2006, 22 pp.
Examines the literature on integrating affordable housing and health and supportive services for older adults and developed an inventory of promising Affordable Housing Plus Services strategies and programs. - Promising strategies to end family homelessness
National Alliance to End Homelessness, June 2006, 30 pp.
Highlights the strategies promising communities are using to accomplish the goal of ending family homelessness, including Hennepin County's program to help people rapidly exit from shelter . - Strategies for preventing homelessness
Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, May 2005, 210 pp.
Identifies and documents effective community-wide homeless-prevention strategies implemented in six communities with the hope that other communities will carry out similar efforts. - Strategies for reducing chronic street homelessness
Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, January 2004, 384 pp.
Identifies and documents successful community-wide approaches to reducing homelessness and achieving stable housing for the difficult-to-serve people who routinely live on the streets. - Rethinking local affordable housing strategies: Lessons from 70 years of policy and practice
Brookings Institution, December 2003
Aims to help state and local leaders meet the modern realities of the affordable housing challenge by looking back at the lessons of the past 70 years of housing policies. - The impact of supportive housing on services use for homeless mentally ill individuals
Corporation of Supportive Housing, May 2001, 17 pp.
Measures the extent of homeless mentally ill individuals’ dependence on an array of publicly funded emergency service systems, and ascertains the degree to which this dependence is reduced by placement into service-enriched housing.
- Mixed housing planning and revitalization (3)
- Rapid exit from shelter to reduce homelessness (3)
- Promising strategies to end family homelessness
National Alliance to End Homelessness, June 2006, 30 pp.
Highlights the strategies promising communities are using to accomplish the goal of ending family homelessness, including Hennepin County's program to help people rapidly exit from shelter . - Strategies for preventing homelessness
Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, May 2005, 210 pp.
Identifies and documents effective community-wide homeless-prevention strategies implemented in six communities with the hope that other communities will carry out similar efforts. - Strategies for reducing chronic street homelessness
Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, January 2004, 384 pp.
Identifies and documents successful community-wide approaches to reducing homelessness and achieving stable housing for the difficult-to-serve people who routinely live on the streets.
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