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  • Affordable housing expansion happening on Indy's west side

    June 09, 2021 |

    WRTV-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    With 2,300 people on a wait list for affordable housing, the city of Indianapolis pumped $3 million into a vouchers program for 2021 that has already housed 672 people. Some of the vouchers are set aside for military veterans and their families experiencing homelessness. The city contracted with a national affordable-housing developer and property manager. The housing market has priced many people out of affordable, safe options. A new 61-unit development is under construction, with more homes dedicated to reducing the numbers of unhoused veterans.

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  • A couch is not a home: Where the hidden homeless get housing vouchers

    June 04, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Boston used vouchers to help "doubled-up families" – those with school-age children sharing crowded apartments with other families – jump the line of people waiting for subsidized housing and get their own homes. Schools identify children living in this limbo status that often isn't visible or recognized as homelessness. They referred families to FamilyAid Boston, which put about 300 families into their own homes. Doubling up, which often violates leases and can quickly put families on the streets, is the most common homeless status of public-school students.

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  • Hotels for those left unhoused by wildfires

    June 03, 2021 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Hotels and motels are being converted into free housing for people experiencing housing instability in Oregon. Project Turnkey is a state-funded initiative that buys potential housing units and puts local organizations in charge of running them. The program was a response to displaced victims of wildfires that tore through a number of communities in 2020 but future plans include housing people experiencing homelessness for any reason.

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  • How Bakersfield, California Ended Chronic Homelessness

    May 11, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Bakersfield, California

    Bakersfield became the first California city to all but abolish a category of homelessness using the Built for Zero campaign's tactics of combining the use of data with a sustained, communal effort. From 2017 to 2020, Bakersfield identified and then housed all but two of the 72 people it identified as chronically homeless. Working from lists of people, the Bakersfield Kern Regional Homeless Coalition met regularly to whittle down the caseload. The county housing authority helped by leasing a bloc of eight units to sublet, easing landlord worries about dealing directly with people experiencing homelessness.

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  • A Solution to Ending Homelessness Might Be in the Data

    April 29, 2021 |

    Eugene Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    Built for Zero is a data-driven approach to ending homelessness with a proven track record of success. The strategy is scalable and takes into account variables within different communities. It aims to bring homelessness rates down to “functional zero,” which means that the number of people experiencing homelessness is low enough that they can all be housed if they wanted.

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  • Building blocks: B.C. city takes aim at homelessness with two temporary modular housing projects

    April 27, 2021 |

    Capital Current |

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    Response Location: Canada, Richmond, British Columbia

    Temporary modular housing is alleviating homelessness in Richmond, Canada. Stacked units are quicker and cheaper to construct and the temporary housing comes with wraparound services such as meals, support groups, and health care to help people experiencing homelessness get back on their feet. The first modular housing project resulted in a public outcry that the city successfully used as a lesson in engaging the community the second time around.

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  • How Expanding Vouchers Could Improve Housing Stability

    April 20, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Housing vouchers have proven to be the most effective intervention to address housing instability in America. The vouchers provide a subsidy that covers the difference between rent and what families can afford to pay. Labeling it as one of the most effective federal housing policies, advocates are pushing for policies that expand the voucher rental assistance.

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  • Charlotte organization offers affordable housing help

    April 09, 2021 |

    WCNC-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Charlotte's rapid growth has put affordable housing out of reach to many residents. So the Home Again Foundation, a nonprofit, got into the homebuilding game. It constructed eight affordable housing units on land that would have been used for more single-family housing. Rents are below market and the foundation provides other services aimed at improving the self-sufficiency of the new residents, who had been experiencing homelessness.

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  • In Denver, Tiny Homes Take On Affordable Housing

    March 26, 2021 |

    QNotes Carolinas |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Denver's Beloved Community Village is a development of 20 "tiny houses," affordable single-family homes that have helped residents obtain stable housing at rates that allow them to get ahead financially. Charlotte would have to change its zoning laws, and some residents' attitudes, to allow for such a hedge against homelessless. Those changes are possible, but will take time and much effort.

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  • Formerly Homeless Seattleites Are Moving Into a Building Designed for Tech Workers — Here's Why

    March 25, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    A “small efficiency dwelling unit” in Seattle has been sold to a nonprofit that serves people experiencing homelessness. The development was initially meant for renters but rental vacancies caused by the pandemic prompted the owners to sell the building to the nonprofit. Now tenants who earn 30-40 percent of the median income in Seattle will pay 30 percent of their income toward rent.

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