The Henry Smith Charity Housing First Strategic Grant:Research into the Effectiveness of Seven Housing First Services

This report presents the results of a three year evaluation of the Henry Smith Charity Strategic Grant Programme which supported six Housing First services. Two rural and suburban Housing First projects were developed in North Wales (Housing First Gwynedd) and West Sussex (Turning Tides). Specialist women’s Housing First team members were added to existing Housing First services in London (Bench Outreach) and in Leeds (Turning Lives Around). New Housing First was also supported in Leicester (Action Homeless) and Southend (HARP). A separate Henry Smith Charity programme also provided continuity of funding to another West Sussex Housing First service (Stonepillow).