Redesign Required
Lessons for Permanent Supportive Housing from Skid Row Housing Trust Buildings
Join us Wednesday, May 21 from 10-11 am PT for the virtual report launch.
The 2023 closure of Skid Row Housing Trust shocked many in Los Angeles and the affordable housing community. Once considered a national model of permanent supportive housing (PSH), the Trust was no longer financially sustainable. What were the financial and economic challenges that led to its collapse? And what can the Trust’s closure teach the sector and its funders about sustainably funding and operating permanent supportive housing?
A new exclusive report, Redesign Required: Lessons for Permanent Supportive Housing from Skid Row Housing Trust Buildings, details the financial and economic challenges that contributed to the shut down of the Skid Row Housing Trust, and what providers, funders, and government can learn from its closure. The report provides a comprehensive economic analysis of the Trust’s buildings, leveraging unprecedented access to the Trust’s leadership and financial records as well as dozens of in-depth interviews with former staff, PSH professionals, and government officials.
Join us Wednesday, May 21 from 10-11 am PT for the virtual report launch.
This webinar will explore the report’s findings and recommendations with experts in the field of permanent supportive housing: Joanne Cordero, who guided the Trust through its wind down as interim CEO, and Brad West, policy specialist with The Supportive Housing Alliance.
Redesign Required
Lessons for Permanent Supportive Housing from Skid Row Housing Trust Buildings
May 21, 2025, 10:00 am PT
Presenters:
Claire Knowlton, Lead Author, Founder and Principal Consultant, Claire Knowlton Consulting
Joanne Cordero, Contributing Researcher, Former Chief of Staff, Skid Row Housing Trust, and interim CEO for the Trust through its closure and final bankruptcy
Brad West, Policy Specialist, The Supportive Housing Alliance
Come back May 21 to download the report.