Permanent Supporting Housing Best Practices

Resources designed for Permanent Supportive Housing providers and administrators, focusing on long-term stabilization, trauma-informed support, landlord relationships, inspections, and tenancy preservation. These insights help communities strengthen PSH program performance and sustain successful housing outcomes.

Why Continuums of Care Should Centralize Rental Assistance Administration

A Note on Continuity

In the previous article, Why Administering Housing Programs Has Become So Difficult — and What Needs to Change, I examined the growing complexity of rental assistance administration at the program level. Fragmented infrastructure, workforce strain, policy volatility, and unsupported complexity have turned one of the most effective homelessness interventions into one of the hardest to operate sustainably.

Those challenges are real inside individual agencies—but they […]

Why Administering Housing Programs Has Become So Difficult — and What Needs to Change

Author’s Note: This article is written from my personal perspective as someone who has spent more than three decades administering housing programs and building systems to support them. My views expressed here reflect my experience and my conviction that the infrastructure supporting housing assistance programs must evolve.

This is not a product announcement. It is an invitation to examine how we organize and sustain this work.

Unlocked: How Indianapolis Centralized Rehousing Through HomeNow Indy

Breya Birdsong (fourth from the left) and the RDOOR team receive formal recognition for the impact they have had creating and implementing HomeNow Indy. Birdsong, VP of Rental Assistance Programs, shares her expertise and experience in this article.

Building trust, system capacity, and faster rehousing through shared infrastructure

In our Unlocked series, we highlight communities that have rethought how housing systems operate—moving away […]

By |2026-02-18T16:52:40-07:00January 28th, 2026|Housing Search & Navigation, Landlord Engagement & Partnerships|Comments Off on Unlocked: How Indianapolis Centralized Rehousing Through HomeNow Indy

Unlocked: How Cincinnati’s CoC Centralized Housing Navigation and Opened More Doors for Households in Need

In communities across the country, decentralized landlord engagement has long created bottlenecks: duplicated cold calls, missed unit opportunities, siloed relationships, and clients stuck with too few options. Cincinnati and Hamilton County decided to change that.

In this second installment of Unlocked, our series highlighting communities that are expanding housing access by centralizing landlord engagement, we spoke with Strategies to End Homelessness (STEH) and their RentConnect Manager, Tiffany Gehrlich, […]

By |2026-02-18T16:55:08-07:00December 4th, 2025|Housing Search & Navigation, Landlord Engagement & Partnerships|Comments Off on Unlocked: How Cincinnati’s CoC Centralized Housing Navigation and Opened More Doors for Households in Need

Empowering Client Choice with Padmission Connect

In communities across the country, Padmission Connect is helping housing programs put choice back into the hands of the people they serve. With the Map Search feature, participants and their case managers can work together—within one secure platform—to find housing that truly fits their needs, supports, and goals.

This isn’t just about finding an available unit. It’s about finding the right home in the right place, faster and with less […]

By |2026-02-18T16:49:22-07:00November 24th, 2025|Housing Search & Navigation|Comments Off on Empowering Client Choice with Padmission Connect

Unlocked: How Partnership Home Uses Padmission Connect to Strengthen Landlord Engagement

At Padmission, we know that every step toward ending homelessness matters. Across the country, our partners are unlocking new opportunities for landlords, providers, and participants to connect, collaborate, and create stable housing solutions.

That’s why we launched Unlocked—a blog series highlighting how communities are putting Padmission tools into action. Each feature celebrates lessons learned, partnerships strengthened, and doors opened for people seeking housing.

Our first Unlocked story takes us to Texas, where […]

By |2026-02-18T16:45:47-07:00October 16th, 2025|Housing Search & Navigation, Landlord Engagement & Partnerships|Comments Off on Unlocked: How Partnership Home Uses Padmission Connect to Strengthen Landlord Engagement

Property Engagement and Housing Search Assistance

As homeless services systems scale permanent housing interventions like Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) and Rapid Rehousing (RRH) in communities, there is a tremendous opportunity and need to strengthen and align efforts in landlord engagement and housing search assistance.  On May 15, 2020, HUD issued guidance on the HUD Exchange to Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) recipients and Continuums of Care (CoCs) on developing a “

By |2026-02-18T16:50:43-07:00March 8th, 2020|Housing Search & Navigation, Landlord Engagement & Partnerships, Rental Assistance Administration & System Design|Comments Off on Property Engagement and Housing Search Assistance
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