Publications
Year 5 (published July 2021)
- Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle with Housing First: Results from the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative (report)
- Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle through a Housing First Approach (fact sheet)
- Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative: Final Outcome Payments (brief)
- Final Investor Payments for Denver’s Innovative Supportive Housing Program (fact sheet)
- Costs and Offsets of Providing Supportive Housing to Break the Homelessness-Jail Cycle (report)
- Analyzing the Costs and Offsets of Denver's Supportive Housing Program (fact sheet)
- Improving Health Care through Housing First (working paper)
- Housing First Breaks the Homelessness-Jail Cycle (feature)
Year 4 (published November 2020)
Year 3 (published November 2019)
- Maintaining Housing Stability: Interim Lessons from the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative (report)
- Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative: Housing Stability Payments (brief)
- Maintaining Housing Stability: Interim Lessons from Denver’s Expansion of Supportive Housing (fact sheet)
Year 2 (published November 2018)
- From Homeless to Housed: Interim Lessons from the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative (report)
- Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative: Housing Stability Outcomes (brief)
- Finding Stability through Housing: Interim Lessons from Denver’s Expansion of Supportive Housing (fact sheet)
Year 1 (published October 2017)
- Engaging the Most Vulnerable in Supportive Housing: Early Lessons from the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative (report)
- Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative: Housing Stability Outcomes (brief)
- Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle in Denver (fact sheet)
Research design (published March 2016)
Additional resources
- The First Step toward Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle (blog post)
- Dismantling the Harmful, False Narrative That Homelessness Is a Choice (blog post)
- Starting with Stability: How Denver Is Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle (feature)
- Critical Value Podcast #28: How Denver Is Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle, Part 1 (podcast)
- Critical Value Podcast #29: How Denver Is Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle, Part 2 (podcast)
- Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle with Housing First (event)
Media coverage
- Denver initiative to move chronically homeless people into housing shows “promising” early results (The Denver Post)
- Denver sold bonds to reduce the human and financial costs of homelessness. The results so far are promising. (The Denver Post)
- Cities experiment to reduce homelessness with “pay for success” finance (Reuters)
- Denver’s new apartment building caters to homeless who have been traumatized after years on the streets (The Denver Post)
- Can Private Money Help Denver’s Homeless? (Colorado Public Radio)
- How “pay for success” investing programs can help fix social mobility in the US (Quartz)