Policy Papers
Familes, youths, and homelessness
- Families Hardest Hit: Effects of Welfare Reform on Homeless Family (PDF)
- Educational Rights of Homeless Children (PDF)
- Putting Children First: Ending Family Homelessness in Illinois (PDF)
The criminal justice system and homelessness
- Prostitution: A Violent Reality of Homelessness (PDF)
- Curbing the Demand for Prostitution (PDF)
- Summary of Unlocking Options for Women: A Survey of Women in Cook County Jail (PDF)
- Expungement: A Beginning to Reduce Recidivism (PDF)
- Creating a Positive Police and Community Response to Homelessness (PDF)
- Alternatives to Incarceration for Women (PDF)
Housing, healthcare, jobs and homelessness
- Lack of Health Care: A Root Cause of Homelessness (PDF)
- Housing Initiatives in Illinois (PDF)
- Is Housing a Human Right? (PDF)
- Making Rents More Affordable: The Rental Housing Support Program (PDF)
- Creating Sustainable Funding for Affordable Housing in Illinois (PDF)
- How Many People Are Homeless in Chicago? A Fiscal Year 2006 Analysis (PDF)
- Transitional jobs: a model employment service for people with barriers (PDF)
Miscellaneous
