Sam Tsemberis

Created Housing First model -- based on the belief that housing is basic human right and services must be directed by the consumer.

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

Wonderful EU peer review gathering featuring housing first programs from Ireland 🇮🇪 Austria 🇦🇹 Belgium 🇧🇪 Slovenia 🇸🇮 Czechia 🇨🇿 Latvia 🇱🇻 and Croatia 🇭🇷 moderated by European Union 🇪🇺. An excellent knowledge exchange and inspiring to see that across programs there was both local adaptations and remarkable consistency and fidelity to the model. Many thanks to Ireland’s Housing Agency and the EU Commission! @HousingAgencyIE @HousingFirstHub @EU_Commission @HSE_SI

[Department of Health @roinnslainte]

Today we hosted delegates from 7 EU countries for an EU Commission Peer Review on 'Successes and Learnings from Housing First Programme (Ireland) to reduce long term homelessness for people with complex needs'. @DeptHousingIRL @HousingAgencyIE @EU_Commission @SamTsemberis @HSE_SI

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

@Val_Plante Glad you are ok and taking time for self care.

[Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa @uOttawa]

We were honored to confer the prestigious Doctor of the University upon Dr. @SamTsemberis, CEO of Pathways to Housing & inventor of #HousingFirst. With his incredible work & commitment to reforming housing policy, Pathways to Housing continues to impact millions around the world.

[Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa @uOttawa]

Grâce à son travail incroyable et à son engagement en faveur de la réforme de la politique du logement, @SamTsemberis et Pathways to Housing continuent d'avoir un impact sur des millions de personnes dans le monde.

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

Housing First participants at 24 months report higher income, higher perceived housing quality, and access to family doctor. So, homelessness ends immediately and then the rest of life slowly and steadily improves!

[Nick Falvo @nicholas_falvo]

New study finds predictors of housing stability include:

1. Higher income

2. Higher perceived housing quality, and

3. Having a family physician

https://t.co/pCiPWBMlpg

#HousingFirst #EndHomelessness

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

@DeborahPadgett5 Tell it sistah!

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

Friends,
Proposals are due tonight at 11:59 pm ET! 
This is the last call for proposals for the seventh Housing First Partners Conference in Atlanta, GA, April 2024. 
https://t.co/MrsuEmrYm4

#HousingFirst #HomelessnessConference #CallforPresentations #HFPC #EndHomelessness

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

Happy to announce HFPC 2024 is open for submission and registration!
HFPC is coming to Atlanta, GA | April 8-11, 2024
Submit to present at #HFPC by July 31, 2023.
Register today, registration is filling up quickly!
https://t.co/MrsuEmrYm4
@hfpartnersconference

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

@Jayjay79757142 @ItsTheHousing @RachelHayes_33 Housing first is consumer driven snd offers a lot of choice. But participants must meet the terms of a standard lease and agree to regularly scheduled home visits. It’s not “everything is voluntary” - you’re a tenant like everyone else plus you get home visits.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.

Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!

Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!

It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

@tmccormick @HPRI_LA Thanks Tim. Is that opinion a ‘reality check’ or another political position?

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

Learned news ways to improve Coordinated Entry Systems today. But why improve how the funnel works? Why make more efficient a system that offers housing to a very few based on clinical needs? Why not throw out the funnel and offer housing as a basic human right?!

[HPRI @HPRI_LA]

Coming up 6/13 from 9-11AM: join us for a virtual HPRI Research Seminar featuring @SamTsemberis, Molly Brown, and Rachel Fyall! They will present their 2019 study case study of the Coordinated Entry System in Seattle-King County, Washington. Register Here: https://t.co/gDxxTF2XtG

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

@AbeOudshoorn Abe, yes, U.S. has highest incarceration rate in the world; every single state incarcerates more people per capita than any independent other democracy.
Texas has 10th highest rate. However, Houston’s reduction in homelessness is mostly the result of people getting housed.

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

How Houston reduced Homelessness by 60%. Good summary.

https://t.co/wMHTnfeVTJ

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

Germany is about to go full scale Housing First! Many will be helped. Congratulations!

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

CES - coordinated entry systems are much practiced and seldom studied. This presentation will introduce a little scientific evidence about practices that often act as Coordinated Exclusion Systems!

[HPRI @HPRI_LA]

Coming up 6/13 from 9-11AM: join us for a virtual HPRI Research Seminar featuring @SamTsemberis, Molly Brown, and Rachel Fyall! They will present their 2019 study case study of the Coordinated Entry System in Seattle-King County, Washington. Register Here: https://t.co/gDxxTF2XtG

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

100% support NAEH's call for justice.
National Alliance to End Homelessness Statement on the Killing of Jordan Neely https://t.co/U2Sd2B4XH1

[Sam Tsemberis @SamTsemberis]

Ireland 🇮🇪 National Housing First Conference: celebrating first complete year of national initiative where 875 housing placements (and growing) were made and many important lessons were learned. Great to hear from so many skilled and caring practitioners!

[The Housing Agency Ireland @HousingAgencyIE]

Day 1 of the Housing First Practitioners' Conference is underway in Athlone. The conference theme asks "Where would Ireland be without Housing First?". Participants @SamTsemberis, Mary Hayes, Joe Doyle and Rose Tobin address this question in Panel 1.

[Peter McVerry Trust @PMVTrust]

Sarah Joyce, our Head of Dublin Housing First, is taking part in this afternoon's panel on 'Challenges faced in tenant engagement' at the Housing First conference. Sarah is discussing how effective & consistent relationship building is key to tenant success across #HousingFirst.