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| Center for Housing and Health | |
|---|---|
| Name | Center for Housing and Health |
| Founded | 1980s |
| Type | Nonprofit research and advocacy organization |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Area served | National |
| Focus | Homelessness, housing stability, public health, policy |
Center for Housing and Health
The Center for Housing and Health is a nonprofit organization that conducts research, implements programs, and advocates at the intersection of housing and public health. The Center engages with federal agencies, state offices, municipal governments, philanthropic foundations, academic centers, and service providers to reduce homelessness, improve healthcare outcomes, and influence housing policy. It collaborates with hospitals, community health centers, shelters, and legal aid organizations to translate evidence into practice.
The Center for Housing and Health emerged amid policy debates involving the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and municipal initiatives such as New York City Department of Homeless Services and Los Angeles Housing Department. Its founding era coincided with major events including the expansion of Medicaid eligibility reforms, litigation like Olmstead v. L.C., and program shifts after the passage of the McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act. Early collaborations included research with scholars from Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and University of California, San Francisco and pilot programs alongside Veterans Health Administration teams addressing veteran homelessness following commitments by the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness.
The Center’s mission emphasizes ending homelessness, improving health equity, and advancing permanent supportive housing models that draw on evidence from initiatives tied to Housing First implementations, pilot projects in cities like Seattle, Boston, and San Francisco, and multisector programs involving Medicare accountable care organizations. Programs typically include housing navigation, tenancy supports, hospital discharge planning connected to Health Resources and Services Administration-funded clinics, and coordination with legal services such as collaborations modeled on Medical-Legal Partnership efforts. The Center administers demonstration projects similar to models used by the Corporation for Supportive Housing and technical assistance resembling work funded by the Kresge Foundation and MacArthur Foundation.
The Center publishes white papers, systematic reviews, and implementation toolkits grounded in methods adopted by research entities like National Institutes of Health, RAND Corporation, and Brookings Institution. Its outputs compare outcomes across randomized trials, quasi-experimental studies, and observational cohorts analyzed by teams from Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. Publications address topics linked to Affordable Care Act reforms, social determinants referenced by World Health Organization frameworks, and cost-offset analyses used by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The Center’s reports are cited by advocacy groups such as National Alliance to End Homelessness, think tanks like Urban Institute, and international agencies including United Nations Human Settlements Programme.
The Center engages in advocacy campaigns targeting legislation and administrative rulemaking associated with bodies like the United States Congress, Department of Health and Human Services, and state legislatures in jurisdictions such as California, New York (state), and Massachusetts. It provides testimony before committees modeled on sessions held by the House Committee on Financial Services and partners with coalitions resembling Coalition for the Homeless and National Low Income Housing Coalition. Policy priorities include promoting rental assistance incentives, scalable supportive housing, and healthcare–housing integration strategies referenced in guidance from entities like the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
The Center maintains partnerships with academic medical centers such as Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, and University of California, Los Angeles; philanthropic funders including Gates Foundation-style philanthropies and regional community foundations; and municipal partners like the City of Chicago and City of Philadelphia. Funding streams commonly include grants from foundations, cooperative agreements with federal agencies, and project contracts with state homelessness offices comparable to those in Texas and Washington (state). Collaborative networks include membership in consortia resembling the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.
Impact assessments draw on performance metrics used by HUD Exchange and health outcome indicators tracked by CDC surveillance systems. Independent evaluations have paralleled methodologies from Mathematica Policy Research and Abt Associates, documenting reductions in emergency department visits, shorter hospital readmission rates similar to benchmarks reported by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and housing retention comparable to outcomes published by Urban Institute studies. Cost-effectiveness analyses cite fiscal models used by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services demonstrations and state Medicaid waiver evaluations.
The Center’s organizational model reflects structures found at nonprofits such as The Rockefeller Foundation program units and research centers at institutions like Brookings Institution. Leadership teams often include executive directors with experience at HUD, clinical directors with affiliations to hospitals such as Mount Sinai Health System, research directors trained at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and boards with appointees from groups like National Academy of Medicine and regional funders. Operational divisions include research, policy, programs, development, and evaluation units mirroring divisions at multisector organizations such as United Way.
Category:Nonprofit organizations based in the United States Category:Homelessness organizations in the United States