Denver SIB Participants Were Four Times More Likely to Access Housing Than the Control Group

Percentage of people in each group who were ever housed after three years

Source: Authors' calculations based on Mary K. Cunningham, Devlin Hanson, Sarah Gillespie, Michael Pergamit, Alyse D. Oneto, Patrick Spauster, Tracey O’Brien, Liz Sweitzer, and Christine Velez, Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle with Housing First: Results from the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative (Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 2021).
Notes: Denver SIB = Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative. The Denver SIB randomized controlled trial included 724 people: 363 people were randomized into treatment, while 361 were placed in the control group. Results are for three years after people were randomized to the treatment and control groups.
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