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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Success in the City of Brotherly Love / The city that knows how - Philly Philadelphia / Effort stems tide of homelessness -- can S.F. learn from it?

    Kevin Fagan

    June 13, 2004 |

    SFGate |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia reduced chronic homelessness by coordinating outreach through a centralized office and providing immediate access to housing and services such as counseling and drug rehabilitation. San Francisco is studying the model.

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