This article offers strategies for education programs to sustain and grow, despite diminishing funding. Authors review challenges for States regarding this issue and supporting worker advancement. Successful strategies include focusing on local economic sectors that will provide the most potential for economic development.

This article gives information for Community Action Agencies to implement effective IDA programs. It provides advice from best practices around the country and future suggestions for state policy on IDAs.

This article reviews the benefits of Individual Development Accounts to help low-income people save money and build assets for the future and toward self-sufficiency.

This project examined 25 local homeless assistance systems and the success of a strategy for creating a functioning Continuum of Care for the homeless.

This article focuses to answer if welfare recipients who receive housing assistance are harder to employ than those who do not receive it and if the type of housing assistance affects the outcomes for the recipient.

This study, for the Office of Policy Development and Research and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, identifies successful community-wide approaches to reducing homelessness and achieve stable housing.

This Web resource provides a wide range of resources on homelessness prevention for prisoners that include publications, best practices and programs, and policy and legislation briefs. One of the featured programs is entitled Polk County Decategorization that works in conjunction with the Iowa Department of Corrections and administers the youthful offender portion of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Grant. The program provides a supportive and cohesive transition for juveniles aging out of the juvenile system and returning to the community.

Authored by John Trutko and Burt Barnow. This report explores the feasibility of developing a core set of performance measures across four HHS programs that focus on service delivery to homeless persons. The report, by Capital Research Corporation and Johns Hopkins University, also explores the extent to which mainstream service-delivery programs supported by HHS (i.e., those not specifically targeted to homelessness) could generate performance measures on the extent to which homeless persons are served and with what effect.

This research includes 27 cities and the status of hunger and homelessness. The research is based on information from the cities on the demand for emergency food and shelter and the capacity to handle the need, the causes of hunger and homelessness, programs to combat hunger and homelessness, the availability of affordable housing, and the outlook for the future.

This report, from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), provides an update on trends in State and local regulations that affect housing development and reducing barriers to affordable housing for low-income populations. By first discussing trends in the problem of affordable housing, the article then reviews recent policies from around the country to reduce regulatory barriers to housing. It concludes by providing information on actions taken by HUD on the Federal level.