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Tiny Houses: A Big Idea to End Homelessness

Linda Federico-O'Murchu

February 26, 2014 |

NBC News |

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Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

While billions of taxpayer dollars are allocated each year to support shelters and social service initiatives, homelessness remains a persistent problem in the U.S. - in 2013, an estimated 610,000 people slept without shelter every night. All over the country, people are building "tiny homes" to give to the homeless, providing them with shelter, a bathroom, and a kitchen for less then the cost of a shelter.

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Dying Not Under a Bridge, Nor Living in an E.R.

Ankita Rao

September 10, 2013 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

Housing First programs enable homeless people to attain health care services and a place to live– which, advocates say, ultimately saves taxpayers money. One woman's story is a revival of dignity, if not health.

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Houston's solution to mental health system problems offers a case study for Milwaukee

Meg Kissinger

June 08, 2013 |

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

In Houston, TX, many individuals with mental illnesses cycled in and out of emergency care while arrested or incarcerated. Houston’s police department has decreased the number of incarcerated who have mental illness by opening a division to mental health called the Chronic Consumer Stabilization Unit. Now Milwaukee seeks to replicate Houston’s results.

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Honoring Their Service

Lily Casura

April 03, 2013 |

Forth Worth Weekly |

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Response Location: United States, Forth Worth, Texas

Too often do veterans come back from fighting overseas to find little to no help in reacclimatizing to life at home. Programs in Tarrant County, Texas bring together a wide range of programs (housing placement, mental health counseling, legal services) to help those who have returned from fighting for their country.

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Teaming Up to End Homelessness

Tina Rosenberg

September 12, 2012 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

There are about 67,000 homeless veterans in the United States today, and at least a third are chronically homeless. The 100,000 Homes Campaign, which aims to get 100,000 chronically homeless or otherwise particularly vulnerable people into housing, supercharged the housing process this summer using Rapid Results — a strategy that helps communities jump-start projects by breaking off a 100-day chunk, setting wildly ambitious goals and using any (legal) means necessary to achieve them.

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The Promise of Social Impact Bonds

Tina Rosenberg

June 20, 2012 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United Kingdom

When a government needs to invest in an expensive capital project — a new sewer system, bridge or highway — it issues bonds. The hot new idea in social programs – finance prevention programs to cut recidivism, reduce homelessness or keep kids in school by selling bonds, to be paid only if the program is a success.

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The Street-Level Solution

David Bornstein

December 24, 2010 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Many of the errors in our homelessness policies have stemmed from the conception that the homeless are a homogeneous group. It’s only in the past 15 years that organizations like Common Ground, and others, have taken a more granular, street-level view of the problem — disaggregating the “episodically homeless” from the “chronically homeless” in order to understand their needs at an individual level.

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A Plan to Make Homelessness History

David Bornstein

December 20, 2010 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

By partnering with cities across America, the 100,000 Homes campaign is going directly to the streets to end homelessness - and it’s working. With roughly 700,000 people in the United States experiencing homelessness, this organization seeks to address that using a tiered system that considers individual health needs as well.

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The City's Cost of a Life Redeemed

Kevin Fagan Brent Ward

October 29, 2006 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Making the transition from the street to permanent housing can be difficult - it's hard to force people to seek help. San Francisco works to help the homeless rise from the poverty cycle by pinpointing the most chronically homeless people on the street and urge them into services.

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Reaching into a void: For mayor's team of street crusaders, getting the chronically homeless into housing requires patience as they battle their addictions -- and persistence if they relapse

Kevin Fagan

December 06, 2004 |

SFGate |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

San Francisco's Care Not Cash program began in 2004 in response to the city's homelessness crisis. One facet of the program is an outreach team, whose members regularly visit homeless people on the street to connect them to resources such as housing and drug rehabilitation.

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