A Learning Exchange for Providers Serving People with HIV

Housing Interventions to End the HIV Epidemic (HINT) is a competitive grant initiative under HUD’s Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program. HINT grantees provide housing assistance and supportive services, coordination and planning activities, and grants management and administration.

This August, TAC and HUD’s Office of HIV/AIDS Housing (OHH) brought together 41 participants representing 15 HINT grantee and project sponsor organizations for a three-day learning exchange in Chicago. Through panel presentations, peer-to-peer discussions, and collaborative problem-solving, participants explored implementation challenges, data and evaluation strategies, sustainability planning, and promising practices from across the HINT initiative. In addition to TAC consultants Liz Stewart, Natalie Goodman, and Manuela Molina Pineda, presenters included representatives from HINT grantee organizations, OHH, and Florida Atlantic University, the evaluation partner for the HINT initiative.

One of the event’s highlights was a visit to Chicago House, where attendees explored a HINT-supported project and learned about the organization’s innovative housing model designed to support older adults living with HIV. Participants also heard from Chicago House’s partners, including architects involved in the design of a new housing development, offering insights into how thoughtful design can support aging in place and long-term housing stability.

Welcome, TAC CEO Richard S. Cho!

TAC is delighted to announce that Dr. Richard Cho will be joining the TAC team as our new Chief Executive Officer on November 16. Richard is a nationally recognized leader in housing and homelessness, with extensive experience at the intersection of these fields with human services and Medicaid. He brings more than two decades of leadership on these topics in the government, nonprofit, and consulting sectors. Learn more!

Tackling Veteran Homelessness with the One Team Approach

Since 2024, TAC has provided ongoing support in implementing the One Team Operational Framework, designed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to accelerate efforts to end homelessness among Veterans. The One Team approach is a coordinated, community-wide effort that rapidly connects Veterans to health care and housing services. One Team is fundamentally about breaking down barriers that prevent Veterans from accessing the services they need and want to end their homelessness and pursue their goals. TAC has supported VA’s implementation of One Team through the development of tools and technical assistance guidance as well as with community-based coaching support. VA’s One Team approach leverages both policy and practice changes to better align services across programs and systems.

The TAC coaching team, led by Ashley Mann-McLellan, has partnered with the Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center and local stakeholders since 2022 to build a unified One Team approach. Key TAC coaching initiatives include supporting:

• Leadership and governance of the One Team approach
• Practices and stretch goals to ensure same-day access to interim housing beds
• Streamlined case conferencing and housing surges
• PHA coordination to maximize HUD-VASH voucher utilization

This collective effort has driven a powerful downward trend in Los Angeles County’s Veteran homelessness data. The number of unhoused Veterans dropped 22.9% to 2,991 in 2024, saw a negligible 2% rise in 2025 (to 3,050), and plunged another 26% to 2,257 in 2026. This sustained progress underscores the fact that deep community collaboration is the ultimate ingredient for success.

Forming Strong Partnerships Between Homeless Services and Behavioral Health Crisis Response

As communities across the country work to improve behavioral health crisis response and reduce homelessness, stronger coordination between homelessness service providers and behavioral health crisis teams has become a national priority.

In partnership with the Homeless and Housing Resource Center, Megan Lee and Jordan Gulley developed an issue brief on Strengthening Partnerships Between Homelessness Services and Behavioral Health Crisis Teams and led an accompanying national webinar with almost 1,500 participants. These resources provide practical tools and strategies for collaboration, while highlighting real-world examples of effective crisis response and cross-system collaboration.

From “Strengthening Partnerships Between Homelessness Services and Behavioral Health Crisis Teams” webinar; Technical Assistance Collaborative.

Priced Out Where You Live — New Data!

What’s the gap between a monthly Supplemental Security Income payment (the sole source of income for many people with disabilities) and the average rent for a modest apartment in your community? Check out TAC’s interactive tool for education and advocacy, now updated with the most recent government data.

Staff Spotlight: Janice Miller

TAC Senior Consultant Janice Miller is an expert on homelessness, intimate partner and sexual violence (IPSV), and on the issues — and solutions — that arise at the intersection of these two challenges. At TAC, Janice provides training and TA on systems alignment to address unsheltered homelessness, housing protections under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), trauma-informed care, coordinated entry and CoC governance design, and partnership strategies. Before joining TAC, she worked as a Director with the House of Ruth Maryland, creating and scaling up its statewide Safe Homes Strong Communities rapid rehousing program (later found to be effective in reducing future violence and housing instability, even for women still in contact with their abusive partners) and establishing the Victim Coordinated Entry program for the Baltimore City CoC.

An active knowledge partner on issues of IPSV and housing, Janice earned her M.P.H. as a fellow of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, receiving a Capstone Award for her original research on the undercounting of persons experiencing IPSV and homelessness in Maryland ― and she has since collaborated with other researchers to apply the same lens to national homelessness data. Currently, Janice chairs the Community Advisory Board for a collaborative research project to increase housing and service options for women with HIV who are experiencing IPSV.

Shawn Thiele Sacks and Janice Miller at the Bloomberg American Health Initiative Summit, October 2026

Staff News

Rebecca Boss participated in the “Convening to Develop Opioid Collaborative Data Capacity in Southern New England,” sponsored by the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts on September 17 in Providence, RI; Nicole LiBaire supported HUD by co-leading public safety and disaster listening sessions with the Central Florida Coalition for the Homeless at the 2026 Florida Coalition to End Homelessness in Orlando; Ashley Mann-McLellan finished leading a summer/fall “Housing Navigation 101” train-the trainer series for staff at Boston’s Pine Street Inn; Janice Miller is featured in A Roadmap to Ending Gender Violence, introducing a collection of powerful new tools to help communities take action; In September, Alicia Woodsby moderated a panel on Supportive Housing in CT: Past, Present, & Future, helping to launch the new Partnership for Strong Communities report Homes that Heal: The State of Supportive Housing in Connecticut“; Maseta Dorley, Eric Gammons, & Ashley Mann-McLellan participated in this summer’s National Conference to End Homelessness; Megan Lee was featured on the Crisis Jam podcast as a member of the Crisis Reading Rainbow Greatest Hits roundtable (September 16, 2026 episode), and also attended #CrisisCon26: The National Crisis Continuum Conference in Atlanta, GA; and Laura Conrad and Shawn Thiele Sacks both attended the fall conference of the National Association of Medicaid Directors.