This post was originally published last January, but I think it is worth a repost! This is a debate that will go on and on and on because homelessness may never TOTALLY end. But, as I was reading a blog post on Chang.org’s Poverty in America section, I noticed a good analogy on how we [...]
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Serving the homeless is more than putting up four walls
I remember hearing a quote somewhere that said, “People don’t recognize customer service, unless it is BAD customer service.” This quote ties in well with a story written in a blog post on New York’s Coalition for the Homeless website. The blog post is written by a woman, Sarah Murphy, who was homeless but helped [...]
Housing & Shelter is just the start of ending homelessness
It is REALLY REALLY easy to think this way – “The way to end homelessness is to build more homes! More housing, means less homeless, which means homelessness is gone!” I get caught thinking this way constantly. It is hard to wrap your head around what it could be like to have to be on [...]
Whole Foods Market “Bags Hunger” for HIP
In January, Whole Foods Market on 86th Street in Nora, distributed over $6,000 worth of healthy organic food to the Homeless Initiative Program (HIP). The following items were picked up by our staff and delivered to the individuals housed through our Ralph Dowe Legacy Housing Project and Threshold Project. Pallets of cereal Whole wheat pasta [...]
HOUSING FIRST approach is gaining headway across the nation!
The way homeless prevention usually went was that a person would stay in a shelter, show good behavior, and then receive support services. Now, we are realizing the positive effect of housing the homeless first along with immediately providing support services. In an article from the Detroit Free Press, it was noted that the average [...]
What is the best way to end homelessness?
This is a debate that will go on and on and on because homelessness may never TOTALLY end. But, as I was reading a blog post on Chang.org’s Poverty in America section, I noticed a good analogy on how we could go about starting to end homelessness. This blog author, Eric Sheptock, is speaking about [...]
Homelessness and the lack of resources…
What if you said you couldn’t help someone jump their car because you didn’t have the cables? That isn’t too hard to get over. You just didn’t have the resources to help them, but maybe somebody else will come along with jumper cables. It is a pretty common tool to keep in a car. What if you [...]
Advocacy wins for Domestic Abuse and Affordable Housing!
A success story for advocacy! Continuous work will pay off… Affordable housing is not easy to come by, and the possibility of being evicted and becoming homeless may be enough for a domestic violence victim to feel trapped. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced, at the end of October 2010, an advancement [...]
Homeless prevention for Veterans
In his blog Stone Soup Station, Steven Samra says, “One of the most gut wrenching, heartbreaking things I’ve had to deal with while working with veterans is telling a man or woman with a family that there were no resources available to assist them as their world collapsed around them and they hit the bricks.” [...]
Achieving a goal takes planning, Indianapolis chose a “Blueprint”
Helping someone into a home FIRST, can offer stability and security to help them into a new life SECOND. Housing First is an approach that kind of flip flops the logical way of thinking. Many of us think that in order to obtain a home, one should 1) be sober, 2) have a steady paying [...]
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