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  • In Portland's Self-Governed Dignity Village, The Unhoused Make Their Own Rules

    Dignity Village is a self-governed community in Portland, Oregon, where people experiencing homelessness can live as long as they want. The village houses 65-80 people who pay $75 a month and put in 10 hours of community-related work a week to live there.

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  • DC receives funds to help homeless students. Why are so many schools missing out?

    The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 allows the U.S. Department of Education to provide states, including D.C., funding to support equal access to public education for homeless children and their families. McKinney-Vento dollars are often scarce, so other solutions, like The American Rescue Plan and creative efforts from educators, are also helping students and families in need access the necessary resources to get an education.

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  • Home in Mooresville opens its doors to offer hope to women and children without a home

    Hope of Mooresville takes a non-judgemental approach to help women and children experiencing homelessness by providing a safe, dignified space to live in while helping them find permanent housing and employment.

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  • In the Sacramento area, when affordable housing is done well, it changes lives

    Affordable housing communities serve various low-income populations from seniors to veterans to minorities and families. Gaining a safe and affordable place to live — with rent capped at 30% of their gross income — can help turn people’s lives around as affordable housing communities like Hope Cooperative connects residents with services like healthcare, job, and life skills to get back on their feet.

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  • How Nonprofits Enrol Children From Streets To Schools In South-West Nigeria

    To combat the high number of children who cannot attend school due to poverty, the Destiny Trust provides homeless, out-of-school children in Nigeria with food, school supplies, and access to shelter.

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  • Four WA communities tried to end youth homelessness. One is seeing success

    Washington’s Anchor Community Initiative helps youth experiencing homeless by improving communities’ response systems with better data, more funding, and better connecting community organizations and specialists.

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  • Affordable Housing for LGBTQ+ Seniors

    Mutual Housing California opened Lavender Courtyard, a 53-unit affordable housing complex, with the goal of providing a welcoming and safe place for LGBTQ+ seniors who often face discrimination. Approximately half of the tenants are LGBTQ+, and residents say the project has given them a place to find community and feel safe being themselves.

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  • Could farming bring solutions to homelessness across the country?

    The Green Phoenix Farm is a job training program for women who have experienced homelessness and offers them employment, mentorship, and advocacy. In 2021, the farm produced $110,000 worth of value off of .8 acres under cultivation, which is 17 times the economic output of an average vegetable farm in the United States.

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  • Tiny homes, big change: How DC can adapt tiny homes to fight homelessness

    The Eden Village tiny home community helps to provide people without homes a place to live. Tiny homes communities allow municipalities to build more dense and affordable housing for the people who need it most. All the homes in the village are “permanent supportive housing,” meaning residents may live in their homes for the remainder of their lives as long as they follow the rules set forth by the community.

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  • ‘This is what equity looks like': Roving teams deliver COVID vaccines around the Tenderloin

    Roving coronavirus vaccination teams walk around the Tenderloin district of San Francisco to provide COVID-19 vaccines to people who want one. The medical professionals focus on providing vaccines to people experiencing homelessness, people who are marginally housed, isolated, or who have other obstacles to accessing care. In addition to some pop-up clinics they set up in parking lots and other centralized areas, they also administer vaccines right on the spot, where ever they find people who want one.

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