What does rapid rehousing help with?

Rapid re-housing is a solution to homelessness designed to help individuals and families to quickly exit homelessness and return to permanent housing.

How does rapid rehousing work?

Rapid re-housing interventions assist households experiencing homelessness by helping them move directly into permanent housing in the community using whichever combination of financial assistance and housing-focused services are needed and desired by the household.

How long is rapid rehousing?

Participants are assisted for as long as is necessary for them to become financially self-sufficient and able to afford the entire Contract Rent with their own income. On average, Rapid Re-Housing assistance lasts approximately 6 months.

Why is rapid rehousing bad?

After families exit rapid re-housing, they experience high rates of residential instability. Many move again or double up within a year and face challenges paying for rent and household necessities. These problems are common among low-income households in general, however.

What exactly is rapid rehousing?

What is Rapid Re-Housing? Rapid re-housing provides short-term rental assistance and services. The goals are to help people obtain housing quickly, increase self- sufficiency, and stay housed.

Is rapid rehousing effective?

Report Finds Rapid Re-housing Is an Effective Low-Cost Intervention to Homelessness. Studies have also found that 70% of rapid re-housing program participants successfully find permanent housing prior to their program exit. Lastly, an important feature of the program is its lower cost than other interventions.

Is rapid rehousing evidence based?

Rapid Rehousing is an evidence-based strategy to help families and individuals move quickly out of homelesness and into a home. Our system currently serves about 1,500 households per year through Rapid Rehousing, of which roughly 70% are able to successfully maintain stable housing upon exiting the program.