Partnering with organizations to address housing insecurity and advance health equity.
HMA Housing and Health Solutions helps healthcare organizations, state Medicaid agencies, housing authorities, and community partners design and implement integrated housing-health strategies that reduce homelessness, improve housing stability, and advance health equity. We align policy, data, funding care models, and cross-sector partnerships to turn fragmented systems into coordinated programs. Whether executing Medicaid Section 1115 demonstration waivers, expanding health-related social needs (HRSN) initiatives, or establishing braided financing, HMA delivers scalable, measurable solutions from strategy through implementation.
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Housing is a critical driver of health. Housing stability affects health, access to services, and community well-being. Yet organizations addressing housing and health often operate through separate funding streams, policies, technologies, provider networks, and accountability structures.
These divisions make it difficult to coordinate services, establish sustainable financing, share useful information, and measure results. They also create operational barriers for the people and communities these systems are intended to serve.
HMA helps clients connect housing, healthcare, behavioral health, public health, Medicaid, and human services around shared priorities. Our consultants work from strategy and policy through program design, implementation, and evaluation.
Clients engage HMA to:
- Improve local housing and homelessness response systems and Coordinated Entry integration
- Design Medicaid housing-related services, 1115 waiver strategies, and HRSN initiatives
- Align healthcare, housing, managed care organizations (MCOs), and community partners
- Develop sustainable capital, operating, and braided service-funding approaches
- Strengthen housing navigation, placement, and supportive services
- Improve partner and community-based organization (CBO) readiness for value-based contracts
- Integrate housing and healthcare data for cross-system performance measurement
- Establish meaningful performance and evaluation frameworks
- Move an initiative from planning to implementation
Our housing and health consulting services
HMA helps healthcare, housing, Medicaid, government, and CBOs improve housing stability, address homelessness, and connect housing and health systems through practical, measurable strategies. Our housing and health offerings include:
Cross-sector strategic planning
How do healthcare, housing, and government leaders build a unified housing strategy? By convening key partners across health systems, Medicaid agencies, housing authorities, and CBOs to build cross-sector alignment and execute comprehensive health equity solutions.
System integration
How can health plans and housing systems integrate data and care coordination? By ensuring upstream integration of housing, Medicaid, and behavioral health systems to streamline referral networks, increase program efficiency, and scale supportive housing models.
Programmatic/financial modeling
What are sustainable funding mechanisms for Medicaid housing-related services? High-impact financial models incorporate braided funding, value-based payment structures, scenario planning, predictive analytics, and clear roadmaps for mitigating operational risks.
Business-aligned impact investing
How can health plans utilize community impact investments for housing? Help corporate treasury and healthcare leaders align capital investments with social drivers of health (SDOH), supporting business priorities while expanding affordable housing stock for members and patients.
Who we help
HMA works with executive leaders responsible for housing stability, healthcare access, Medicaid programs, community health, homelessness response, and cross-sector system performance.
Healthcare and Medicaid leaders
We help MCOs, health plans, state Medicaid agencies, health systems, hospitals, and behavioral health organizations design strategies for 1115 demonstration waivers, innovative state-specific housing benefits, and HRSN initiatives. We improve care coordination, strengthen Medicaid-housing partnerships, and drive measurable health outcomes.
Housing and homelessness system leaders
We help public housing authorities, affordable housing developers, Continuums of Care (CoC), housing finance agencies, and homelessness response organizations strengthen housing stability, align HUD and Medicaid resources, expand supportive housing, and build sustainable cross-sector partnerships.
Government, public health, and human services agencies
We help county and local governments, public health departments, and human services agencies assess community needs, establish cross-agency SDOH frameworks, streamline homelessness response systems, and move policy initiatives from concept to execution.
Community, funding, and implementation partners
We help CBOs, foundations, philanthropic organizations, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), impact investors, and implementation partners build readiness for cross-sector housing and health initiatives, strengthen sustainable financing, support coalition development, improve data and evaluation capacity, and scale practical solutions that improve housing stability and health equity.
Why organizations choose HMA
HMA applies a holistic approach to complex housing challenges. We combine housing knowledge with expertise in Medicaid, managed care, behavioral health, public health, human services, financing, data, and implementation programs. This enables clients to address housing stability as a cross-sector system priority rather than a stand-alone program.
Cross-Sector Expertise: We bring together expertise in housing, Medicaid, managed care, behavioral health, public health, and human services to design integrated, scalable solutions that address HRSNs.
Integrated Strategies: We connect housing and health priorities so that interventions address the whole person and support durable outcomes.
From Strategy to Implementation: Whether you need strategic planning, system integration, financial modeling, policy support, or implementation, HMA provides end-to-end guidance that turns plans into measurable results.
Trusted Convener Across Sectors: We help healthcare organizations, housing providers, government agencies, and CBOs build aligned strategies, strengthen partnerships, and coordinate investments to improve community outcomes.
Practical Financing and Data Expertise: Our team supports Medicaid and housing financing strategies, impact investment, data integration, outcomes measurement, and sustainability planning to help clients build programs that can scale and endure.
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Housing and Health Solutions FAQs
How long does a typical Housing and Health Solutions engagement take?
Timeline depends on the scope, number of partners involved, and whether support includes planning, implementation, or evaluation. HMA supports organizations from strategy through implementation and performance improvement.
Can HMA work with our existing housing, healthcare, Medicaid, and community systems?
Yes. HMA focuses on strengthening and integrating existing housing, healthcare, Medicaid, behavioral health, and community systems rather than replacing them. The team helps organizations improve coordination, partnerships, and service delivery across sectors.
How does HMA integrate housing and health data across different systems?
HMA helps organizations develop strategies for integrating information across housing and healthcare systems, including Homeless Management Information Systems (HMISs) and electronic health records, to support coordination, analytics, and outcomes measurement.
What does a typical Housing and Health Solutions engagement cost?
HMA structures engagements based on each client’s objectives and scope, which may include strategic planning, policy design, implementation support, financing strategy, stakeholder engagement, or evaluation.
Can HMA help us strengthen our existing homelessness, housing stability, or Medicaid housing program?
Yes. HMA helps organizations improve existing programs by strengthening partnerships, addressing system barriers, enhancing financing strategies, improving performance measurement, and scaling successful interventions.
How do we measure whether a housing and health program is producing meaningful results and delivering value to stakeholders?
HMA supports outcomes tracking, analytics, evaluation, and performance measurement. Programs are typically designed around goals such as housing stability, reduced homelessness, improved access to services, and better health outcomes.
How does HMA help organizations sustain housing and health initiatives after grant funding or pilot funding ends?
HMA helps organizations develop long-term sustainability through financing strategies, program and financial modeling, Medicaid integration, partnership development, and strategic planning.
