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Permanent housing (also known as Housing First) is a homelessness assistance model that initially focuses on providing a person with shelter before working with them to improve areas of their life that are contributing to their situation such as mental health, job skills or substance use.
“What we know from experience and many studies, is that this model of assistance works. It works really well and it keeps people out of homelessness,” said Doug Schenkelberg, the executive director of the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness.
Schenkelberg said that roughly 90% of the federal funding received by the Continuum of Care (CoC) in Chicago goes to permanent housing. The majority of permanent housing programs in Chicago and across the nation would simply not be able to function with the 30% cap proposed by the Trump administration.
