The Do-it-Yourself Cost-Study Guide: Assessing Public Costs Before and After Permanent Supportive Housing: a Guide for State and Local Jurisdictions
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Description:
Most stakeholders interested in ending chronic homelessness are familiar with the recently published cost avoidance analysis conducted for the New York/New York Initiative (hereafter, “NY/NY analysis.”1 The NY/NY analysis looked at the NY/NY Initiative, which placed homeless individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) in a variety of permanent supportive housing (PSH) arrangements, and helped them stay there.2 It examined three issues—changed use of public services, changed costs resulting from the changed use, and savings (whether PSH cost the same or less than pre-PSH use of public services).<br/>The Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) promoted the NY/NY analysis because it thought the results might provide powerful evidence of supportive housing’s ability to produce outcomes that policy makers want—reductions in inappropriate use of emergency public services, and their associated costs. The results fulfilled these hopes, showing significant savings. Together with evidence that PSH is able to attract and retain chronically homeless disabled people (Shern et al., 1997; Tsemberis and Eisenberg, 2000) and that the probable number of such people is small enough to be a feasible policy target (about 200,000 to 250,000 nationally), the NY/NY analysis has galvanized many cities and the country as a whole to adopt the goal of ending chronic homelessness.<br/>Intended Users of This Guide<br/>Stakeholders in many cities and counties have expressed interest in conducting their own NY/NY analysis. This guide lays out the issues that any jurisdiction needs to think about before committing itself to that endeavor. Its intended readers include city and county agencies; individual homeless assistance providers; homeless advocacy groups; associations and coalitions of providers, advocates, and consumers; foundations and private homeless assistance funders; and planning agencies, commissions, task forces, and committees. (Author)
Type of Resource:
Guides/Manuals
Organization:
Corporation for Supportive Housing
Date Issued:
2004
Location:
Oakland, CA