Population Level Interventions

Population level interventions are approaches designed to support homelessness prevention across communities. Such approaches include interventions designed to change policies at the regional and national levels. Approaches such as increasing the incomes of people who are living in deep poverty so that they are no longer at risk of tenancy loss, improving income assistance programs, making deeply affordable housing more available through increasing funding for social or public housing, and policies that mitigate the rising cost of living represent population level approaches to homelessness prevention. Practitioners can advocate for these approaches, researchers can provide evidence to inform policy, policymakers can use evidence to inform their decision-making, and advocates can pressure governments to make needed changes to policy that directly impact the lives of people who experience homelessness. Learn more about population-level strategies for homelessness prevention by reading Chapter 8 of the Bridging the Transition Book: Population-Level Strategies for Supporting Function and Participation in Daily Life. 

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Watch the video below to hear from persons with lived experiences of homelessness, service providers, and policymakers on the value of interventions focused on homelessness prevention at the population level.