Housing Opportunity and Services Together (HOST), launched by the Urban Institute with the support of the Open Society Foundations in December 2010, is an innovative approach to coordinating services and programs for adults and youth in public and mixed-income housing. HOST's core case management component helps parents in low-income neighborhoods confront their key barriers to self-sufficiencypoor physical and mental health, addictions, low literacy and educational attainment, and historically weak connections to the labor forcewhile simultaneously integrating services for children and youth.
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