Medicaid Financing For Services In Supportive Housing For Chronically Homeless People: Current Practices And Opportunities

In February 2012, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) published a study it commissioned on the roles that Medicaid, Community Health Centers, and other federal Health and Human Service Department programs might play in providing services linked to housing for people who experience chronic homelessness through Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH). PSH provides a permanent home for formerly homeless people with disabilities, along with the health care and other supportive services needed to help tenants adjust to living in housing and make the changes in their lives that will help them keep their housing. Medicaid is . . .