Homelessness Concepts Flashcards
Individuals and families who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and includes a subset for an individual who resided in an emergency shelter or a place not meant for human habitation and who is exiting an institution where he or she is temporarily resided
U.S. federal definition of homelessness
counting of the amount of homeless population in the U.S., including sheltered and unsheltered persons, done within the last 10 days of January. Collected by Continuums of Care
Point-in-time count homelessness
12 month counts of homeless persons who use an emergency shelter or transitional housing programs at any time from October 1-September 30. The count comes from community administrative databases, or homeless management information systems
Shelter count of homelessness
Trends in homelessness
Sheltered: total has remained around the same, total has gone down for individuals, and the total for persons in families have gone up
Unaccompanied homelessness with an individual disabling condition, homeless for one year or more or who has had at least four episodes of homeless within the past three years. After Hearth Act in 2009, persons in families could be chronically homeless
Chronic homelessness
Provides financial assistance and services to prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless and help those who are experiencing homelessness to be quickly rehoused and stabilized
Rapid Re-housing
A homeless assistance approach that prioritizes providing people experiencing homelessness with permanent housing as quickly as possible- and then providing voluntary supportive services as needed
Housing first
A program that helps eligible people find a permanent home and also get the local mental health services but only if and when they need that help
Permanent supportive housing
Monthly payments to families with children, administered by each state, which receives federal money as apart of a block grant. The federal law places a five-year lifetime limit on parents receiving it and it requires them to work as soon as possible. There are also child caps
TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families)
A federal program for the elderly or disabled when social security or pension income is insufficient
Supplemental security income (SSI)
Health care for the poor, usually limited to TANF participants, and is state required
Medicaid
Not based on need; rather participants meet age, employment, or disability requirements (Social security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, workers compensation)
Entitlement Welfare Programs
Eligibility depends on demonstrating economic need; do you have the means to support yourself? (TANF, Medicaid, Food stamps, SSI, public housing)
Means Tested Welfare Programs
federal retirement and/or disability payments for elderly or disabled persons and for widows or orphans
Social Security
Federal Program of health care for the elderly and/or disabled
Medicare
