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  • ‘We'll be safe': How one family found a home with help from Seattle's Popsicle Place

    June 25, 2018 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Popsicle Palace, an organization that serves the Seattle area, provides housing for families with chronically ill children who are experiencing homelessness. The program designs rooms for children with compromised immune systems and also helps to transition families to single-family housing and out of homelessness.

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  • Helping Nigerians move from the slums to affordable green homes of their own

    June 16, 2018 |

    The Hindu |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Port Harcourt

    Comprehensive Design Services (CDS) is a Nigeria-based company that uses traditional Nigerian architectural techniques and Bio-Climatic Design to build housing that is both affordable and green. This approach, which they hope to expand to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, is making a dent in the growing population relegated to slums and poor housing conditions in the face of rapid urbanization.

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  • A Venice couple is housing homeless people, one small building at a time

    June 08, 2018 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    SHARE, or Self-Help and Recovery Exchange, is a nonprofit organization that “places extremely low-income people into market-rate housing by matching renters two to a bedroom.” The model depends on renters being able to pay and requires renters to attend weekly self-help sessions. The homes are rented out by local investors who are interested in helping homeless people while still turning a small profit via their investment. Currently, SHARE houses 400 tenants throughout Los Angeles.

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  • A Growing Drive to Get Homelessness to Zero

    June 05, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Rockford, Illinois

    Across the United States, communities are coordinating data and strategies to achieve a "functional zero" for homelessness. By creating complex and dynamic systems that utilize detailed data collection, communication between agencies, and personal relationships with those being served, many communities have made clear reductions in their homeless population.

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  • A warm, safe place — with cookies: Tradeswomen build tiny homes for homeless women in Seattle

    May 13, 2018 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In Seattle, tradeswomen have been hard at work building a village of tiny houses. The project accomplishes two objectives: creating homes for the many homeless women in Seattle while also providing valuable experience to women in the trades and construction industry.

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  • One way the US is working out its homeless problem

    April 25, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    Employment and long-term housing help homeless individuals get back on their feet. Albuquerque's "There's A Better Way" offers jobs, food, counseling, and housing to those in need, one of more than 20 programs across the country putting the focus on helping, rather than punishing, people living on the streets.

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  • Housing as health care: How connecting the two is saving Los Angeles money

    March 19, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    A Los Angeles program provides the homeless with housing and a case manager. By providing a path to accessing care, people Do not need to use the emergency department as the place they receive care while housing provides much needed stability.

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  • Women's Homelessness Is a Growing Problem. Denver Is Pioneering a Solution.

    March 15, 2018 |

    Slate |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Denver’s Women’s Homelessness Initiative (WHI) is unique because it is the only church-based shelter program in the country that offers housing for women throughout the entire year. By giving women a place to stay off the streets, they are safer and have a better chance at getting back on their feet, aided by a subsidized housing program for formerly homeless people.

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  • City Rolls Out Tech Platform to Improve — and Ration — Shelter, Housing for the Homeless

    March 08, 2018 |

    San Francisco Public Press |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    In San Francisco, a new online navigation system based off the theory of coordinated entry is merging separate databases into one to track the city's homeless population. The system uses this information to prioritize their limited housing stock - but it also means the process can become more complicated for some families in the system.

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  • NYC opens ‘supportive housing' units to shelter, educate homeless

    February 19, 2018 |

    New York Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has worked with countless non-profits to try to decrease homelessness in the city. Finally, one solution is showing positive effects. Supportive housing is a type of affordable housing that includes job training programs, access to healthcare, and financial literacy education, all with the aim of keeping residents housed. Within New York, 1,400 units of supportive housing are currently funded, and 2,803 units are in the development process.

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