A Housing First Approach to Expanding Non-congregate Shelters in Cambridge

Franny Xi Wu

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A Housing First Approach to Expanding Non-congregate Shelters in Cambridge - Policy Proposal for the Cambridge City Ad Hoc Working Group on Homelessness

Franny Xi Wu, Anisha Nakagawa, Shivali Gowda, Trace Allen, Ana María Pérez
Fall 2021, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

This project advocates for the expansion of non-congregate shelters for unhoused individuals in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We worked in collaboration with Project Right to Housing (PR2H), a community-based collective of grassroots organizers championing a Housing First approach to eradicate homelessness. By embedding our policy research and design contributions within the Housing First paradigm, we aim to bolster PR2H's endeavors to ensure housing security for all unhoused, underhoused, evicted, and struggling residents of Cambridge.