As the number of unsheltered people ticks up, state and local agencies are scrambling to find enough beds. They’re also having to navigate changing federal policies which threaten funding. Creativity is key and, in some places, it helps to solve homelessness. This includes the use of data analytics to keep people in their homes and state laws requiring developers to build affordable housing. Data Analytics During a January 23 roundtable at CET studios, President and CEO of Strategies to […]
Subsidized permanent housing is no longer a given for the chronically homeless. Instead, the government is directing more than $3 billion in funds to pay for transitional housing, addiction treatment and state outreach. Not everybody is on board, including the founder of the National Homelessness Law Center and author Maria Foscarinis. She has ideas on how the Housing First model could be resurrected and details […]
Keeping people in their homes could come down to a math problem. If area homeless prevention agencies got a heads up on who was at risk and what types of bills they were having difficulty paying, they could be proactive and help prevent an eviction before there was even an eviction notice. Cincinnati and other cities are trying it. Maidstone, England, says it has done […]
