Sam Tsemberis

Wonderful EU peer review gathering featuring housing first programs from Ireland 🇮🇪 Austria 🇦🇹 Belgium 🇧🇪 Slovenia 🇸🇮 Czechia 🇨🇿 Latvia 🇱🇻 and Croatia 🇭🇷 moderated by European Union 🇪🇺. An excellent knowledge exchange and inspiring to see that across programs there was both local adaptations and remarkable consistency and fidelity to the model. Many thanks to Ireland’s Housing Agency and the EU Commission! @HousingAgencyIE @HousingFirstHub @EU_Commission @HSE_SI

@Val_Plante Glad you are ok and taking time for self care.

Ce matin, j’ai ressenti un malaise pendant une conférence de presse. Heureusement, je vais mieux. Merci beaucoup pour vos bons mots et votre soutien. J’ai pu rencontrer une équipe médicale et je me porte bien. Cependant, par mesure préventive et pour retrouver pleinement la forme, je devrai diminuer le rythme de mes activités dans les prochains jours. Je vais également devoir m’absenter de la séance du conseil d’arrondissement de Ville-Marie ce soir. Exceptionnellement, mes collègues élu(-es) dans Ville-Marie prendront le relais. Je veux vous remercier chaleureusement pour votre soutien. Je me sens choyée d’être si bien entourée. Ça me fait chaud au coeur. Merci, Valérie

We were honored to confer the prestigious Doctor of the University upon Dr. @SamTsemberis, CEO of Pathways to Housing & inventor of #HousingFirst. With his incredible work & commitment to reforming housing policy, Pathways to Housing continues to impact millions around the world.

Grâce à son travail incroyable et à son engagement en faveur de la réforme de la politique du logement, @SamTsemberis et Pathways to Housing continuent d'avoir un impact sur des millions de personnes dans le monde.

Housing First participants at 24 months report higher income, higher perceived housing quality, and access to family doctor. So, homelessness ends immediately and then the rest of life slowly and steadily improves!

@DeborahPadgett5 Tell it sistah!

Eide and Glock write anti- #housingfirst screeds citing stories where HF was NOT implemented. HF without 24/7 supports (including referrals to detox) isn't HF. The only failure here is the authors' willful obtuseness. city-journal.org/article/housin….

Friends, Proposals are due tonight at 11:59 pm ET!  This is the last call for proposals for the seventh Housing First Partners Conference in Atlanta, GA, April 2024.  lnkd.in/gUwR2yj #HousingFirst #HomelessnessConference #CallforPresentations #HFPC #EndHomelessness

Happy to announce HFPC 2024 is open for submission and registration! HFPC is coming to Atlanta, GA | April 8-11, 2024 Submit to present at #HFPC by July 31, 2023. Register today, registration is filling up quickly! lnkd.in/gUwR2yj @hfpartnersconference

@Jayjay79757142 @ItsTheHousing @RachelHayes_33 Housing first is consumer driven snd offers a lot of choice. But participants must meet the terms of a standard lease and agree to regularly scheduled home visits. It’s not “everything is voluntary” - you’re a tenant like everyone else plus you get home visits.

Okay I fully support harm reduction but WTF it's "Requiem of a Dream" ALL over!!!

“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners. Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down! Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak! It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”

@tmccormick @HPRI_LA Thanks Tim. Is that opinion a ‘reality check’ or another political position?

@HPRI_LA @SamTsemberis because we live in a real world of competing political claims, and it doesn't really work to view socio-economic and positional goods as absolute human rights claims? twitter.com/SamTsemberis/s…

Coming up 6/13 from 9-11AM: join us for a virtual HPRI Research Seminar featuring @SamTsemberis, Molly Brown, and Rachel Fyall! They will present their 2019 study case study of the Coordinated Entry System in Seattle-King County, Washington. Register Here: socialinnovation.usc.edu/event/hpri-res…

Learned news ways to improve Coordinated Entry Systems today. But why improve how the funnel works? Why make more efficient a system that offers housing to a very few based on clinical needs? Why not throw out the funnel and offer housing as a basic human right?!

@AbeOudshoorn Abe, yes, U.S. has highest incarceration rate in the world; every single state incarcerates more people per capita than any independent other democracy. Texas has 10th highest rate. However, Houston’s reduction in homelessness is mostly the result of people getting housed.

How Houston reduced Homelessness by 60%. Good summary. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/08…

Germany is about to go full scale Housing First! Many will be helped. Congratulations!

CES - coordinated entry systems are much practiced and seldom studied. This presentation will introduce a little scientific evidence about practices that often act as Coordinated Exclusion Systems!

100% support NAEH's call for justice. National Alliance to End Homelessness Statement on the Killing of Jordan Neely endhomelessness.org/blog/national-…

Ireland 🇮🇪 National Housing First Conference: celebrating first complete year of national initiative where 875 housing placements (and growing) were made and many important lessons were learned. Great to hear from so many skilled and caring practitioners!

Sarah Joyce, our Head of Dublin Housing First, is taking part in this afternoon's panel on 'Challenges faced in tenant engagement' at the Housing First conference. Sarah is discussing how effective & consistent relationship building is key to tenant success across #HousingFirst.