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Paying for Housing: Innovative Housing Subsidy Sources and Design Lessons from Massachusetts

Paying for Housing: Innovative Housing Subsidy Sources and Design Lessons from Massachusetts. Susanne Beaton One Family Inc. Boston, Massachusetts November 30, 2007. Right to shelter state - eligible families guaranteed shelter accommodation Annual expenditures:

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Paying for Housing: Innovative Housing Subsidy Sources and Design Lessons from Massachusetts

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  1. Paying for Housing: Innovative Housing Subsidy Sources and DesignLessons from Massachusetts Susanne Beaton One Family Inc. Boston, Massachusetts November 30, 2007

  2. Right to shelter state - eligible families guaranteed shelter accommodation Annual expenditures: Approximately $70 million/annually At one point 599 families per night residing in motels at annual cost of $20 million Massachusetts: Family Shelter System

  3. Budget constraints – investing $ differently Build political will Education Relationship building Focus on solutions versus problems Small steps - pilots Evaluate & refine interventions Success (and praise!) breeds new investments Setting the Environment for Change

  4. Providing flexible funds to community-based, housing counseling agencies Shelter to Housing, Toolbox Outcome focused Accessing subsidized housing – breaking through waiting lists Creating opportunities, overcoming reluctance Generating new dollars Accessing/using existing $ differently Paying for Housing: Lessons Learned

  5. Identify key stakeholders, unlikely friends, bring people together Share best practices - what’s working what is not? Where are resources now being expended? Is this the best way? Can you reach more people, in a better way, with the same or less $$? Advice

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