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Why Tiny Homes Will Remain Part of California's Homelessness Equation for Years

Jeanne Kuang

October 19, 2023 |

KQED |

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Response Location: United States, San Jose, California

Tiny homes are being used to address the state’s homelessness crisis by providing a more permanent housing solution to those in need than tents or encampments. The city is currently operating 600 tiny homes and working to build more as they’ve seen a 10% decrease in the city’s unsheltered population. Of the 1,500 people who have lived in the tiny homes, 48% have moved on to permanent housing.

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How one Kansas City nonprofit is providing a solution for unhoused veterans

Celia Hack Simone Garza

September 05, 2023 |

Wichita Journalism Collaborative |

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Response Location: United States, Wichita, Kansas

The Veterans Community Project (VCP) offers a village of 49 tiny homes to unhoused veterans free of charge, with extremely low barriers to entry to ensure all veterans in need can receive support. The tiny homes are fully furnished and those who live in the village also have access to health services, education, employment referrals and a sense of community. The VCP also helps veterans become financially stable and seek out permanent housing. Since the VCP opened, 85% of veterans who have stayed in the village have successfully transitioned to permanent housing.

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This Is Public Housing. Just Don't Call It That.

Conor Dougherty

August 25, 2023 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Maryland

The Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County was created in 1974 to address a lack of affordable housing, and it’s done just that. The government agency takes an ownership position over apartment buildings and takes less profit than a typical investor might to ensure new projects have the funding to be built and include affordable units.

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Imagine a Renters' Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.

Francesca Mari

May 23, 2023 |

The New York Times Magazine |

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Response Location: Austria, Vienna

Vienna’s public housing is affordable, full of economically diverse residents, and extremely popular. The housing units are open to almost anyone, as 80 percent of residents qualify, and once you sign a rental contract it doesn’t expire even if your income increases. Plus, the rent can only go up based on inflation if it increases by 5 percent in a year.

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Tackling Rural America's 'Hidden' Housing Crisis

Taylor Sisk Jan Pytalski

March 15, 2023 |

The Daily Yonder |

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Response Location: United States, Roseburg, Oregon

Organizations like the Gary Leif Navigation Center are providing housing services and support to those in need. The Gary Leif Navigation Center opened in the summer of 2022 and is a low-barrier shelter that provides 10 pods for individuals to sleep and store their belongings in. Due to increased need, plans are currently underway to expand the Center, adding an additional 30 beds.

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How These NYC Public Housing Residents Became Models for Tenant Rights Activism

Adam Mahoney

January 11, 2023 |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Cooper Park Houses community is a historically Black, low-income housing complex. While the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated longstanding issues of gentrification and access to housing, the Cooper Park community has worked to advocate for themselves and their community, fighting industrialization and development that could put their homes at risk by banding together and collaborating with other local organizations.

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Occupy to survive: Brazilians squat to fight for housing rights

Mia Alberti

July 29, 2022 |

Al Jazeera |

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Response Location: Brazil, São Paulo

Housing activists have been living in an abandoned building — Prestes Maia — since 2002. Through their years of activism, occupying the space and working to make the 22-story high-rise livable Prestes Maia is being transformed into social housing for the families that have been living there for the past several years.

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Vista Nueva makes Natomas the next front in keeping people housed as Sacramento's affordability crisis intensifies

Casey Rafter

June 02, 2022 |

Sacramento News & Review |

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Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

Inspired by temporary housing initiatives launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, California's Homekey program provides grant funding to help communities convert motels and hotels into permanent supportive housing for unhoused people. More than 300 units have been developed in the Sacramento area so far, with a percentage designated for specific populations, such as families with children, tenants with disabilities, and those who access additional services on-site such as mental health and substance use support.

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Genesis Row project provides sober living for those in recovery

Katie Ellington Serrao

May 19, 2022 |

Richland Source |

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Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

The Mansfield Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Outreach Program (UMADAOP) helps individuals in recovery programs access housing through its Genesis Row Project. The non-profit currently owns six houses and following some renovations, plans to house 20 people.

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Cracking the housing puzzle: What Victoria could learn from other cities

Emily Fagan

December 15, 2021 |

Capital Daily |

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Response Location: Germany, Berlin

Increasing public housing units has helped alleviate the strain on housing supply in Berlin and Vienna where corporate-owned developments were bought out by the government. Housing advocates in Canada are calling for similar measures, in additional rent control and community land trusts.

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