According to this article from The Council of State Governments Justice Center, with an affordable housing crisis across the U.S., it is increasingly critical for jurisdictions to expand their housing supply to meet community needs. However, local leaders often grapple with the question of who is prioritized in these expansion efforts as they develop their housing strategies.

To support jurisdictions seeking solutions to these concerns, the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), The Justice Center, and the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) hosted a series of virtual communities of practice that brought together teams of state and local leaders from across the justice, housing, behavioral health, and other systems, to receive training and assistance to help implement community and state-level strategies to increase housing with supportive services.

This article, the first of a series lifting up themes from these sessions, covers four questions leaders often face when wanting to create new, equitable housing opportunities for people with complex health needs leaving incarceration.

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