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)

• Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative: Housing Stability Payments
  Report to the Governance Committee

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