Eight years in the making

Eight years in the making, today marked the launch of the final report from the evaluation of the Supportive Housing and Managed Care Pilot, one of the most comprehensive analyses of supportive housing, its effectiveness at ending homelessness and its impact on the spending of scarce public resources.

This report is, I hope, a testament to this Pilot, readable and multifaceted for all of its policy-wonkery, and also a tribute to the people involved, and the effort they put into it:

• an incredible amount of work by the evaluators and all the people they worked with in assembling data;
• the funders who took a risk on providing resources to such an ambitious study, and stuck with it as set-backs and obstacles were encountered, and overcome;
• case managers and social service organizations, who put their hearts and souls into their important work; and
• most of all, the people who worked so hard to free themselves from homelessness, and who allowed their story to be told.

Being a part of this undertaking has been one of the most profound, challenging and gratifying experiences of my life, and certainly of my career.

In other words, extra, extra, read all about it!