The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (CCH), a non-profit organization in Denver, recently decided to make an investment and purchase an $8.4 million former hotel in hopes to help alleviate homelessness in the area. The newly-renovated building, now called Fusion Studios, has since become a building with 139 mini-apartments for the homeless. Since 1985, CCH […]
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SF Mayor Breed envisions adding 1,000 beds for the homeless by end of 2020 | San Francisco Chronicle
“We can’t just leave people out on the street. We need options. Letting people sleep in the streets because we don’t have enough shelter beds, that’s a problem.”
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Detroit’s focus on supportive housing drives down homelessness 15 percent | Michigan Chronicle
The reduction is credited to the “Housing First” approach to homelessness, which provides permanent supportive housing with wraparound services to ensure success, as opposed to temporary shelter.
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Invisible Child – The New York Times
Girl in the Shadows: Dasani’s Homeless Life (2013)
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Black Female Tech Entrepreneur Creates Real-Time Food Rescue App To Address Hunger – Atlanta Black Star
Jasmine Crowe, founder of the Goodr Food Rescue App, believes this is a serious problem. No one should have to decide if food is a necessity in their home.
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The US Homeless Camps offering a lesson in Democracy
Overlooked in the elections, Portland’s homeless are organising their own camps on their own terms, but fear evictions.
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