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Jobs for the Homeless

Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

February 02, 2016 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

An Albuquerque program pays panhandlers to clean up city trash—and gets them needed help, pairing city services with a jobs program.

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It's More Than a Church Parking Lot. It's a Safe Zone for Homeless Women and Families

J. Gabriel Ware

September 15, 2015 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Kirkland, Washington

Homeless individuals who sleep in their car are often ticketed or woken in the middle of the night, it can also be an especially dangerous sleep setup for women. Lake Washington United Methodist Church started a Safe Parking Program that allows women to park overnight in their parking lot, use the bathroom and kitchen, and enjoy a sense of safety and community.

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How Soldier On hired 92 formerly homeless veterans

Aaron Brummer

September 04, 2015 |

The Ithaca Voice |

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Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Ithaca, New York

Solider On is an organization that serves homeless veterans in 18 counties across central New York. Of their 180 employees, 92 used to be homeless themselves and another 15 are veterans. They travel everywhere to find people who need help and then work with them to get anything they need, such as housing or employment. Some participants testify to how much the program has changed their lives.

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Housing First the backbone of Karluk Manor

Robin Wood

August 30, 2015 |

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

Formerly a motel, Karluk Manor is Alaska’s original Housing First facility, a new approach to solving homelessness that focuses first and foremost on providing housing to people in need, and then later addressing problems such as health concerns and economic dependence.

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The Secret Lives of Homeless Students

Jessica Sutherland

May 05, 2015 |

Bright Magazine |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Homeless and impoverished kids still have the chance to receive a college education, they just need to have the confidence that they can do so and a little pushing from outside forces. The author shares her own story of accomplishing just that.

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Program works to end homelessness among Colorado Springs veterans

Jakob Rodgers

March 30, 2015 |

Colorado Springs Gazette |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Homes for All Veterans, a program within the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Human Services, recently began training volunteers to walk the city's streets in search of homeless veterans, with the goal of effectively eliminate veteran homelessness by the end of the year. If successful, advocates say the push to end veteran homelessness could be the first step in addressing the city's larger, chronically homeless population.

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Salt Lake City a model for S.F. on homeless solutions

Kevin Fagan

June 28, 2014 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

San Francisco’s chronically homeless population remains staggeringly high. Salt Lake City has managed to eradicate much of their chronically homeless by geographically placing supportive housing distant from the city’s center and receiving financial assistance from the Mormon Church. The housing is attractive, modern, and offers a good ratio between counselors and homeless clients—all of which helps make the homeless want to stay off the streets.

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A decade of homelessness: Thousands in S.F. remain in crisis

Heather Knight

June 27, 2014 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Between 2004 and 2014, San Francisco’s mayor attempted to rid the city of chronic homelessness with a ten-year plan. Despite dramatic successes in moving thousands of homeless from the streets, the homeless population numbers remain the same and chronic homelessness may never be eradicated. In reexamining the problems from the ten-year plan, the current administration has new ideas to decrease their number of homeless.

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The Push to End Chronic Homelessness Is Working

David Bornstein

May 28, 2014 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

Homelessness is still a rampant problem in the United States. The 100,000 Homes Campaign, an initiative launched four years ago, aims to help communities around the country place 100,000 chronically homeless people into permanent supportive housing

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The Street-Level Solution

David Bornstein

December 24, 2010 |

The New York Times |

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800-1500 Words

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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