Reports

• The Report of the Re-Entry Policy Council discusses national assessments, research findings, and policies related to housing formerly incarcerated people.  Chapter 19 addresses housing for individuals during re-entry and makes recommendations.  Chapter 30 addresses systemic approaches to providing housing for people re-entering their communities.  (658 pages) 

Guides

• From Locked Up to Locked Out: Creating and Implementing Post-release Housing for Ex-Prisoners.  This manual, which is a collaboration between the AIDS Housing Corporation and AIDS Housing of Washington, explains who today’s prisoners really are and the degree to which many belong more to the mainstream of society (even if to its most unfortunate tributary) than to a subgroup of sociopaths.  It is meant to allay the anxiety of housing providers who have minimal experience in the field of criminal justice and who are worried about serving ex-prisoners.  This manual also explains the dynamics of prison life, the experience of coming back to society, and how helpers who have not been behind bars themselves can learn to relate to those who have.  (2005, 211 pages) 
• How to Run a Direct Supervision Housing Unit: A Training Curriculum. This electronic guide, founded by the National Institute of Corrections, provides comprehensive guidance to operating direct supervision housing units, with these goals in mind: "to provide officers [the following] skills that will enable them to operate a direct supervision housing unit: leadership, decision making, conflict management, problem solving, planning and goal setting, and behavior management. The curriculum package contains lesson plans and a participant manual." (2005, 2 DVD set)

• Federal Housing Restrictions Affecting Ex-Prisoners. This document created by the Legal Action Center lists reasons some people are denied public housing.  Local jurisdictions decide whether to ban people with felony convictions from qualifying for public housing.  (2 page fact sheet)