People enrolled in prevention and time-limited subsidy programs were most likely to have worked, but 30–42% of people enrolled in street outreach or interim housing had also worked in the two years before service enrollment

Bar chart showing employment rates in the two years before enrollment by type of homeless service. People in prevention (62%) and time-limited subsidy programs (59%) had the highest employment rates. Employment rates were lower in interim housing (42%), permanent supportive housing (32%), and street outreach programs (30%).

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The study uses each person’s first enrollment during the study period as the reference point. This means that the programs identified in this figure were the first homelessness program each person enrolled in during the sample period, but they may have enrolled in other programs.

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