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Jeff Olivet

Jeff Olivet

Homelessness policy expert; former Executive Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (2022–2024), now Senior Advisor at Harvard Chan School's Initiative on Health and Homelessness.

Aug 4, 2026

18:13
But have you seen how these successful partnerships have worked across the country, uh, in particular either a community or, uh, an example of how it all came together?
18:23
together?Well, I think you and your, and your partners at Home Aid are leaders in, in doing this and doing it right.
18:30
Uh, not only do we see bright spots around the country, we're actively documenting those bright spots.
18:36
One of the parts of the Homeless to Housed initiative is a series of case studies that are really around exactly what you're talking about, effective partnerships from developers with, uh, Healthcare for the Homeless project to do medical respite, uh, a supportive housing program, uh, for people with long-term homelessness and mental health issues, where you've got the developer doing what the developer does and the community behavioral health providers doing what they do.
19:04
So we've written up more than 20 case studies from around the country, and these are available at the ULI website, uh, ULI.org. And what they're trying to do is show a roadmap, not only to say, "This is possible," but to say, "Here's how to do it." And those case studies have really detailed financial information.
19:24
They include the pro formas for how the, the project was financed.
19:27
They talk about the partnerships that have made it successful.
23:52
There's multiple layers to it that are-- that's an economic and a business case as well.

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