Housing First: The Next Steps:Practical lessons for Housing First and Housing First for Women

This guidance focuses is on practicalities of setting up and running a small to mid-sized Housing First service and developing Housing First for women. The intention is to draw together learning from running small and mid-sized services, which encompasses much of the Housing First in the UK at the time of writing, which are at the sort of operational scale that smaller and mid-sized local authorities can currently commission. The guidance is not strategic, though it has some lessons for wider strategy, and it is also UK specific, although again some of the experience reported here may have broader applicability to Housing First services operating in an adverse policy environment and hyper-inflated housing markets. The guidance presented here is broken down into six main sections: • Fidelity in practice • Resource management • Recognising and responding to housing market variation • Responding to high and complex needs • Strategic integration and joint working • Housing First for Women