Highlights:
- The Better Health Through Housing demonstration program in Chicago along with a new funding pool to expand the services can offer some guidance. Since November 2015, Better Health Through Housing has worked with four hospitals to house 104 homeless individuals.
- Modeled on a similar funding pool in Los Angeles, the funding pool in Chicago is designed for men and women who are homeless and high users of public crisis services, including emergency rooms. The Flexible Funding Pool helps identify, locate, and — most importantly — house these most vulnerable homeless individuals.
- Chicago’s Flexible Housing Pool has received approximately $13.4 million for the next three years. The money funds a monthly housing subsidy and in-depth wraparound support services for homeless individuals who have cycled through three public systems within the last two years: Cook County hospital; the Cook County jail, which daily houses 9,000 inmates, one-third of who report mental illness; and one of any of the city of Chicago’s homeless shelters.
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