Engaging Landlords to Solve Homelessness: A Comprehensive Toolkit for a Community Approach to Housing Location
Helping families experiencing homelessness find a new home has never been easy, but now with unprecedented demand for rental housing, it has become even harder. Homelessness crisis response systems are having to adapt to the changing market conditions to ensure the people they serve move into a home of their as quickly as possible.
The Housing Alliance new toolkit is designed to help homelessness crisis response systems build upon their existing efforts to quickly place unhoused households into permanent housing. It includes information on promising practices, including housing location tools and templates, and the various models of customer service and financial incentives for landlords and how to fund them.
Table of Contents
Housing Location Infrastructure
- Landlord Engagement in a Post-Pandemic Rental Market: What Is and Is Not Working
- Sample Housing Locater Job Description
- Landlord and Unit Tracking Template
Funding Housing Location and Landlord Engagement
- Landlord Engagement Plan Template & Example Plan
- Landlord Engagement Virtual Summit: Leveraging Funding Sources for Housing Solutions
- Sample Landlord Survey
- Sample Landlord Focus Group Guide
- Housing Locater Summit Part 1 & Part 2
The Benefits of Landlord Incentives
- Landlord Attitudes on Homelessness Assistance Programs
- Bringing Landlords to the Table Lessons Learned from Landlord Incentive Pilots in Three Communities
- Incentive Fact Sheets
- Incentives for Landlords to Rent to Lower Income Households
Marketing Programs to Landlords
Landlord-Tenant-Case Manager Communication Agreement
Acknowledgements: Thank You to Truist for support for this initiative
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