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Rapid rehousing is permanent housing but the assistance is meant to be temporary. And
so, the assistance is short or medium term rental assistance paired with services, but
once that goes away, the client or the household is intended to stay in the same unit as a
form of permanent housing.
Rapid rehousing is different from transitional housing in that in transitional housing, both
the assistance and the housing are intended to be temporary. They are limited at twenty
four months and once the person finishes the program, they sort of move on from the assistance
and the housing. In rapid rehousing the assistance is temporary, but the housing is meant to
be permanent. And so, when the assistance ends the... the family or the individual hopefully
stay in the unit and are able to afford the unit on their own.
Rapid rehousing is different from permanent supportive housing in that permanent supportive
housing, both the assistance and the housing are intended to be permanent. And so, once
you've place an individual or a family into the housing, the assistance stays with them
as long as they need it and the housing stays with them as long as they need it as well.
So it's kind of a... a mix between the two. Another key difference between rapid rehousing
and permanent supportive housing is that permanent supportive housing is limited to individuals
and families where one member of the household has a disability. Whereas rapid rehousing
is a form of permanent housing assistance that's available to all individuals and families
regardless of whether or not someone has a disability.
Some communities will use rapid rehousing as... for lower barrier easier to serve individuals
and families and move them out of the shelter as quickly as possible to save really the
shelter resources for those who are harder to serve and need more intensive resources
before they can be placed into housing. Other communities actually use it to serve harder
to serve families or individuals and they use it to get them quickly out of the streets
or in an emergency shelter, err... from an emergency shelter and put them into housing,
while they wait for a HUD VASH voucher or another form of voucher. The point though
is that the person stays in the unit and the other voucher then comes and subsidizes that
unit when rapid rehousing assistance goes away.
So how communities use it, it's different everywhere, and what we are asking is that
communities look at their current structure, their current programs and put rapid rehousing
where it best fits for them.