Monday, August 1, 2022
Years of Advocacy Leads to Recognition of Housing Needs for Highly Vulnerable Households On July 19, Chicago announced its plan for how it would spend federal relief funds designated for homelessness as well as city bond funding it had allocated for permanent supportive housing. The plan included 35 units of…
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Written by Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum, Jennifer Hark Dietz, Stephanie Klasky-Gamer, Veronica Lewis, and John Maceri Recent polls of Angelenos show that leading up to the mayoral election, demand for an urgent, constructive response to the crisis of homelessness is higher than ever. The primary results showed that voter…
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Thank you. It feels a bit surreal being up here today. Not just because I have gotten used to seeing so many of you in little zoom boxes, but because this is the first time in my own professional memory that someone other than Nan is giving opening remarks….
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I am so happy to be seeing a bunch of you at our conference! Congress is still closed for a lot of group meetings, so we won’t have the usual Capitol Hill Day as part of the conference, but the Alliance is planning several upcoming advocacy pushes to keep a…
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Testimony of Alliance CEO, Ann Oliva, to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs at the “Opportunities and Challenges in Addressing Homelessness” hearing on July 19, 2022. Watch the Testimony Chairwoman Smith, Ranking Member Rounds, and members of the Subcommittee, my name is Ann Oliva and I am…
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Alicia Lara, current Funders Together Board Chair, and Katie Hong, previous Board Chair, introduce the new Funders Together Strategic Framework, what led us to it, and what it means for our members, philanthropy, and the movement.
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The Alliance’s National Conference on Ending Homelessness in July will be the first in-person conference we’ve held in more than two years. So much has happened since then. First, we’ve been in the midst of a health crisis – the COVID-19 pandemic – where we know that people experiencing homelessness…
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Name: Joel Jeffery WhittenA.K.A. : JeffDate of Birth: 10/09/1970Age: 51Sex: MHeight: 5’11”Weight: 232 lbsRace: White
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Rhonda’s mom registered on the FindHomelessPeople.org website and used our resources. Through the website’s search homeless people database feature she found her daughter. We went out and reconnected them and helped her get home with family.
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Written by Norm Stamper, Ph.D., Seattle Chief of Police (Ret) To achieve public safety, social justice, and an equitable society, we must disentangle issues of crime from issues of homelessness. Preventing crime, detecting and apprehending those who commit it, and helping to ensure public safety is a fundamental responsibility of…
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