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This Stanford/Toronto study uses dynamic mathematical modeling of 1,000 unhoused adults with opioid use disorder. It finds that providing stable housing (without requiring sobriety) is cost-effective, reduces overdoses and mortality, increases treatment retention, and improves quality-adjusted life years compared to a treatment-first status quo.

Modeling Health and Economic Outcomes of Providing Stable Housing to Homeless Adults With OUD This economic evaluation analyzes the costs and health outcomes of providing stable housing to people experiencing homelessness who have opioid use disorder (OUD).

Published April 24, 2025, this article by leading homelessness scholars argues that ending U.S. homelessness is achievable but requires substantial expansion of affordable housing, rental subsidies, and Housing First interventions. The authors synthesize evidence showing that political will and resources remain the primary barriers to solving the crisis.

What Would It Take to End Homelessness in the United States? Ending homelessness in the United States has remained stubbornly out of reach. Despite hundreds of federal, state, and local plans to end homelessness, most have ended unsuccessfully—due to a range...

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