Publications
Research Design
- Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative: Evaluation and Research Design (March 2016)
Year 1 Findings Reports (October 2017)
- Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle in Denver (fact sheet)
- Engaging the Most Vulnerable in Supportive Housing: Early Lessons from the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative
- Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative: Housing Stability Outcomes
Year 2 Findings Reports (November 2018)
- Finding Stability through Housing: Interim Lessons from Denver’s Expansion of Supportive Housing
- From Homeless to Housed: Interim Lessons from the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative
- Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative: Housing Stability Outcomes
Year 3 Findings Reports (November 2019)
- Maintaining Housing Stability: Interim lessons from Denver’s expansion of supportive housing (fact sheet)
- Maintaining Housing Stability: Interim Lessons from the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative
- Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative: Housing Stability Payments
Year 4 Findings Report (November 2020)
Blog posts:
- The First Step toward Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle (May 2016)
- Dismantling the Harmful, False Narrative That Homelessness Is a Choice (March 2019)
Features:
- Starting with Stability: How Denver Is Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle
- Critical Value Podcast #28: How Denver Is Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle, Part 1
- Critical Value Podcast #29: How Denver Is Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle, Part 2
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)
Researchers:
- Mary Cunningham, Principal Investigator
- Mike Pergamit, Principal Investigator
- Sarah Gillespie, Project Director
- Devlin Hanson, Lead RCT Analyst
- Alyse Oneto, Research Analyst
- Patrick Spauster, Research Assistant