Reduction Through Improvement
Measuring Progress and Reducing with Urgency
Communities that are successful in reducing homelessness know there are no quick fixes for a problem that’s constantly changing. Once everyone is known and local efforts are coordinated, we support communities with data-driven continuous improvement to reduce homelessness by testing new approaches, clearing bottlenecks, scaling what’s working, and getting more effective each day until everyone has a safe place to call home.
Improvement Methods
Communities use data to identify opportunities to get better at preventing and reducing homelessness. They rapidly test innovations, fix what’s not working, identify the housing people need, and get it built.
Improvement happens on three levels.
Structural Improvements
Structural improvements fix drivers of homelessness. This includes ensuring an adequate supply of deeply affordable and supportive housing, and policy change that supports upstream prevention. These structural improvements are typically longer term and involve policy change, senior governments or significant investment. CAEH advances structural improvements through advocacy and policy development across all levels of government.
System Improvement
System improvement focuses on improving the function of the local homelessness response system, beyond just evaluating individual project success. These changes focus on improving coordination, efficiency and flow through the system. These include improving coordinated access, re-orienting services toward housing-focused approaches, system modelling and simulation, and improving cross-system collaboration.
Rapid Cycle Testing to Reduce Homelessness
Regular testing of interventions that can achieve population level reductions in homelessness. These tests can identify system or structural improvements.
HRIF includes:
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Dedicated Funding for Community Innovation
Strategic funding for local data-informed projects that measurably reduce chronic, veteran, and unsheltered homelessness.
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Prevention and Reduction Focus
Supporting solutions designed specifically to connect people to housing faster or prevent pathways into homelessness.
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Guidance & Reduction Support
Pairing local project leads directly with CAEH Improvement Advisors or National Indigenous Homelessness Council team members to receive guidance and support to reduce homelessness.
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National Knowledge Sharing
Capturing breakthroughs from funded local projects and sharing successful models with communities across Canada.
Your community can end homelessness. We’ll help you do it.
We can help you take the next step
We offer support tailored to the unique needs of each community. Whether you’re looking for the foundational resources to build and sustain quality By-Name Data; need help implementing best practices in your local context; or want support to understand, visualize or act on your data; we can help.