53%
lower rate of housing instability (including evictions) among SAHF families and seniors than the national eviction rate for all renters.
Service-enriched housing (also often referred to as housing with resident services) can reduce disparities in access to services and outcomes for residents and offer them opportunities to build agency, resilience, and independence. SAHF launched our Resident Health and Outcomes Initiative to increase the effectiveness, availability, and financial support of service-enriched housing and to accelerate culture and systems change at the practitioner, policymaker, and investor levels.
Moving from anecdotes to evidence, SAHF has engaged with SAHF members and other high-capacity practitioners to better understand and articulate the core competencies, common language, standardized practices, and infrastructure necessary to support a scalable model for service coordination that is both resident-centered and data-driven. SAHF continues to explore evolving service delivery models that leverage cross sector collaborations, increased access to internet and new innovations using technology platforms, while continuing to priortize robust resident engagement and resident-driven solutions.
Related Tools
SAHF has developed a number of tools in support of this work:
Tracking Service Enriched Housing Impact
The SAHF Resident Outcomes Initiative Measures: key indicators that can be used to track and demonstrate the impact of service-enriched housing. These outcomes measures fall across five domains: Housing Stability; Financial Resilience & Stability; Youth Development & Education; Health and Wellness; and Community Engagement and Safety.
Resident Services Coordination Framework
A Framework for a System of Resident Services Coordination, updated in 2021 to reflect practitioner’s efforts to operationalize and better prioritize resident voice and agency
How States Prioritize Resident Services
An Analysis of 2022 Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Qualified Allocation Plans (QAPs) that looks at how states are prioritizing resident services, looking at thresholds, set asides and incentives for supportive services, resident services, and special needs housing. (Available in Excel and PDF).
Research Matrix on Resident Services Impact
A compendium of existing research (as of May, 2022) looking at resident services in affordable multifamily housing and their impact on property performance and resident outcomes.