Entries by Mary Ann Priester

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Research and News Roundup: October 2024

The Research and News Roundup is a monthly blog series that features a curated list of recent news and research related to housing instability, homelessness, and affordable housing. Together, these topics provide insights about the full housing continuum and provide community stakeholders with information about emergent research, promising practices, and innovative solutions related to housing and homelessness.
This month’s Research and News Roundup highlights the recently released USICH Federal Homelessness Prevention Framework, one community’s plan to end chronic homelessness, and research focused on equity-oriented affordable housing.

October 17, 2024 by
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One Number Deep Dive: Family Homelessness

The Housing Data Snapshot is the hub for the latest data related to housing and homelessness in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. It provides an overall count and demographics of homelessness by household type and subpopulation and highlights inflow to (Newly identified, Returns from Permanent Housing, Returns for Inactivity) and outflow from (Exit to Permanent Housing, Exit to Inactivity), homelessness.

This week’s blog post provides a deep dive into the most recent One Number update with a focus on family homelessness and what these data mean for addressing family homelessness in Charlotte-Mecklenburg.

October 9, 2024 by
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Mobilizing Faith-Based Development Initiatives to Address the Affordable Housing Crisis: A Look at Charlotte-Mecklenburg

Faith-based development initiatives are an emerging promising practice to facilitate the growth of a community’s affordable housing stock. These efforts can help address the current affordable housing crisis while also providing mutually beneficial community development outcomes. Find out below how the City of Charlotte is taking action. Their initiative aligns strongly with Mecklenburg County’s strategic objective to expand affordable housing and reflects our commitment to innovative, community-led solutions.

This blog provides an overview of how faith-based organizations (FBOs) are engaging in housing solutions, and what is being done locally in Charlotte-Mecklenburg to help these FBOs to increase their readiness to engage.

October 2, 2024 by
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One Number Update: August 2024

Since its inception in 2019, the “One Number” has served as the primary benchmark for the number of people experiencing homelessness in Charlotte-Mecklenburg.

Generated from the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), the One Number encompasses individuals enrolled in Emergency Shelter (ES), Transitional Housing (TH), Street Outreach (SO), Permanent Housing (PH) (if no move-in date to housing is recorded yet) and Coordinated Entry (CE) programs in HMIS. It includes both those experiencing sheltered homelessness and a portion of those experiencing unsheltered homelessness. It also provides a comprehensive By-Name List of each person experiencing homelessness in Charlotte-Mecklenburg.

The Housing Data Snapshot, the hub for the latest data related to housing and homelessness in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, not only provides an overall count and demographics of homelessness by household type and subpopulation, it also highlights inflow to (Newly identified, Returns from Permanent Housing, Returns for Inactivity) and outflow from (Exit to Permanent Housing, Exit to Inactivity), homelessness.

This week’s blog post provides the most recent One Number update; the latest One Number trends and analysis; and what this means for Charlotte-Mecklenburg.

September 25, 2024 by
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Research and News Roundup: September 2024

The Research and News Roundup is a monthly blog series that features a curated list of recent news and research related to housing instability, homelessness, and affordable housing. Together, these topics provide insights about the full housing continuum and provide community stakeholders with information about emergent research, promising practices, and innovative solutions related to housing and homelessness.
This month’s Research and News Roundup highlights how healthcare systems are screening for housing instability, the long-term impact and social, economic, and healthcare needs of those who have experienced homelessness, and approaches to addressing the digital divide in affordable housing.

September 18, 2024 by
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Grand Challenge: Ending Homelessness

In 2015, the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare introduced the Grand Challenge to End Homelessness (GC2EH). Ending homelessness was one of twelve initial Grand Challenges that were identified as major, societal issues that have scientific evidence suggesting the issue is solvable, and that require interdisciplinary collaboration and significant innovation to solve.

This blog provides an overview of the Grand Challenge to End Homelessness and a summary of the recently released Grand Challenge to End Homelessness 2024 policy recommendations.

September 11, 2024 by
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One Number Deep Dive: Youth Homelessness

The Housing Data Snapshot is the hub for the latest data related to housing and homelessness in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. It provides an overall count and demographics of homelessness by household type and subpopulation and highlights inflow to (Newly identified, Returns from Permanent Housing, Returns for Inactivity) and outflow from (Exit to Permanent Housing, Exit to Inactivity), homelessness.
This week’s blog post provides a deep dive into the most recent One Number update with a focus on youth homelessness and what these data mean for addressing youth homelessness in Charlotte-Mecklenburg.

September 4, 2024 by
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One Number Update: July 2024

Since its inception in 2019, the “One Number” has served as the primary benchmark for the number of people experiencing homelessness in Charlotte-Mecklenburg.

Generated from the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), the One Number encompasses individuals enrolled in Emergency Shelter (ES), Transitional Housing (TH), Street Outreach (SO), Permanent Housing (PH) (if no move-in date to housing is recorded yet) and Coordinated Entry (CE) programs in HMIS. It includes both those experiencing sheltered homelessness and a portion of those experiencing unsheltered homelessness. It also provides a comprehensive By-Name List of each person experiencing homelessness in Charlotte-Mecklenburg.

The Housing Data Snapshot, the hub for the latest data related to housing and homelessness in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, not only provides an overall count and demographics of homelessness by household type and subpopulation, it also highlights inflow to (Newly identified, Returns from Permanent Housing, Returns for Inactivity) and outflow from (Exit to Permanent Housing, Exit to Inactivity), homelessness.

This week’s blog post provides the most recent One Number update; the latest One Number trends and analysis; and what this means for Charlotte-Mecklenburg.

August 28, 2024 by
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Research and News Roundup: August 2024

The Research and News Roundup is a monthly blog series that features a curated list of recent news and research related to housing instability, homelessness, and affordable housing. Together, these topics provide insights about the full housing continuum and provide community stakeholders with information about emergent research, promising practices, and innovative solutions related to housing and homelessness.

This month’s Research and News Roundup highlights four recently released tenant protections toolkits, a guide to creating a coordinated public funding strategy for affordable housing, and key findings related to intimate partner violence and homelessness from the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness (CASPEH).

August 21, 2024 by
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Promising Practice: Direct Cash Transfers

Direct Cash Transfer (DCT) is an anti-poverty tool that places money directly in the hands of people who are experiencing homelessness or housing instability and empowers them to utilize the funds in the way that meets their most pressing financial needs.

This blog provides an overview of Direct Cash Transfer, its evidence base, and how it is being used across the country to address homelessness and housing instability.

August 14, 2024 by