New York spends billions responding to homelessness, but the path from shelter to permanent housing remains too slow, fragmented, and difficult to navigate. This panel will examine the policy, funding, regulatory, and administrative changes needed to make housing the organizing goal of the system—not a separate endpoint people struggle to reach after a crisis. Panelists should address how prevention, rental assistance, supportive housing, affordable housing, public benefits, housing navigation, and tenancy supports can be aligned into a clearer housing strategy.

On the ground, the gaps are visible: people enter shelter when prevention fails, wait too long for housing pathways to open, and often need support after placement to remain stably housed. This panel will focus on the operating models that can connect the pieces — shelter, prevention, housing navigation, supportive services, affordable housing operations, and tenancy support — so people are not left to move through disconnected systems on their own.
The panel should also examine the false divide between affordable housing and supportive housing: residents may enter through different doors, but many face the same instability drivers and need access to the right supports before arrears, eviction, or crisis reoccur. 

BREAKOUT A FORECAST: Models That Move People Home — and Keep Them There

BREAKOUT B FINDINGS: What Prevention Data Teaches Us About Keeping People Housed