Rapid Rehousing Best Practices & Strategies

Explore guidance, tools, and best practices for Rapid Rehousing programs, including landlord engagement, housing search strategies, rental assistance workflows, and participant stabilization. These articles support communities working to reduce the time families and individuals spend unhoused by improving efficiency, coordination, and program design.

Property Engagement and Housing Search Assistance

Editor’s note — March 2026: This post was written in May 2020, shortly after HUD issued guidance encouraging Continuums of Care to develop proactive, affirmative landlord engagement systems at the community level. The concepts introduced here — centralization, shared landlord databases, coordinated housing search — have only grown more relevant in the years since. For a deeper treatment of what centralized landlord engagement looks like in practice today, including how […]