Deborah Padgett, Sam Tsemberis, Benjamin Henwood authors of Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives

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Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives is the first book to chronicle the story of Housing First, a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began in New York City in 1992 and rapidly spread to other cities nationally and internationally.

Deborah Padgett, PhD, MPH Professor of Social Work and Global Public Health, McSliver Faculty Fellow, NYU Silver School of Social Work; Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine

Sam Tsemberis, PhD Founder and CEO, Pathways to Housing Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center

Benjamin Henwood, PhD Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Social Work

Co-sponsored by  NYU’s McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy & Research.