While survivors’ housing needs are much more on the radar than even five years ago, with new targeted funding and community initiatives underway to better serve them, the systems built to respond to housing insecurity often fall short when it comes to matching them with the housing services that would best fit their circumstances. This article argues that coordinated entry (CE) should be a matching process, not a “pass/fail” test. What follows is a brief examination of the kinds of safe housing options survivors may need. There is no prescribed sequence, and there may be overlap between types (for example, bridge housing may become someone’s permanent housing).
