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  • Great Falls keeping vets off the street

    August 04, 2016 |

    Great Falls Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Great Falls, Montana

    Great Falls has had success finding homes for Veterans. Through word of mouth, volunteers, and communication between agencies homes and programs have been set up to house veterans and facilitate finding them employment.

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  • Two unsexy solutions to help Larimer County's homeless

    August 03, 2016 |

    Coloradoan |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Collins, Colorado

    Two Northern Colorado counties and Fort Collins, especially, face high levels of homelessness. It's not because there are no organizations dedicated to the issue. Rather, a lack of coordination among the veterans' service groups, state and federal welfare departments, and homelessness prevention groups has stymied effective solutions to decreasing homelessness. Now, state-supported Homeward 2020 has implemented a data management system and housing placement accountability program among the service providers. The low-cost model is showing success, and will be rolled out to other regions across the state.

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  • Family center offers comprehensive care for the homeless

    June 29, 2016 |

    KING-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Homelessness has many challenges that require different services to aid those who have no place to live—including daycare and laundry. Seattle has established Mary’s Place Family Center, a public space that collaborates with non-profits to provide a multitude of social services to the homeless. Large corporations have donated buildings to serve as Seattle’s Mary’s Place shelters to diminish costs.

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  • A better model, a better result?

    June 29, 2016 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Many San Francisco shelters have cut their number of beds as well as staff and, while they are not helping enough people, they also have restrictive rules that bar personal comforts. In fifteen months, the city has piloted a Navigation Center that enables individuals to have personal comforts and help the homeless transition successfully to housing. Due to its warm reception, the city government is considering the implications of scaling their Navigation Center.

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  • Can a Minuscule Nonprofit Help San Francisco Win Its War on Homelessness?

    June 29, 2016 |

    San Francisco Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Solving the homeless crisis in San Francisco requires many different initiatives, some of which can be costly. North Beach Citizens is a small non-profit, founded by Francis Ford Coppola, has managed to offer temporary housing and peer support for the homeless. Since 2005, the organization has found permanent housing for over 100 clients and has operated with mostly private donations.

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  • Seattle non-profit helping move homeless out of encampments and into homes

    June 29, 2016 |

    KCPQ-TV |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Seattle’s homeless camps are full of destitution. In less than one year, the Low Income Housing Institute has helped dozens of people to transition from the camps into housing. Providing more access to shelter has also facilitated the poor to re-enter the workplace.

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  • SF opens new full-service shelter to get homeless off streets

    June 28, 2016 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco’s poorly staffed shelters have led many homeless to choose to stay on the street. The Navigation Center, a homeless shelter with many amenities and staff, enables the homeless to keep their personal belongings with them and accepts romantic partners as well as pets. Successfully implemented in the Mission District, San Francisco has opened a second Navigation Center on Market Street and has hopes to continue to scale the project.

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  • Houston's solution to the homeless crisis: Housing — and lots of it

    June 13, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The second part in a series of stories about Seattle's response to their homeless crisis. Here, officials look to the example of Houston to create housing options for homeless veterans and former convicts.

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  • Seattle may try San Francisco's ‘radical hospitality' for homeless

    June 11, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco officials converted an abandoned school on the Mission’s skid row into a special kind of shelter with the means to take chronically homeless adults from the street and entire encampment communities, then navigate them into housing, without the traditional, degrading rules and regulations of other shelters. It’s become one of the most closely watched homeless-related projects in the country, and Seattle is one of the cities looking to potentially replicate their model to help address the homelessness crisis.

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  • Giving Homeless People Homes In SF Saved City 56% In Costs Over 4 Years

    June 03, 2016 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    In San Francisco, empirical evidence emerges that providing housing to the homeless reduces the overall cost to the average taxpayer, in large part by reducing homeless populations' dependence on other city services and improving their health by offering shelter.

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