Ending Homelessness: The Intersection of Research, Advocacy, and Policy

Over the past ten years, the homelessness system has undergone significant changes. Communities are undertaking plans to end homelessness in ten years. There is much greater focus on prevention, rapid re-housing, and permanent supportive housing. Federal funding has increased, and there is bipartisan support for ending homelessness in Congress and the Administration. As a result, homelessness, at least until the recent economic and housing crises, had begun to trend downward in the nation. How did this movement to solve a social problem come into being, and what are the implications of that process for the future?

Nan Roman will discuss how research has informed the movement to end homelessness in the nation; how the advocacy community has used research to advance a national policy agenda; and how federal policy has changed as a result. She will also discuss the implications of this research/advocacy/policy nexus for the future, in light of the economic and housing crises, as well as the new Administration and Congress.

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