Category Archives: Homelessness
From under a bridge, into a home
Rettele is one of the “chronically homeless” — people who typically have a disability, an addiction or both and have been continuously homeless for more than a year. Their needs and society’s cost have propelled a national push called Housing First that offers permanent supportive housing — apartments or assisted living with case management — …
Million Dollar Murray: Why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage
February 13, 2006 Dept. of Social Services Why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage. ….Johns and O’Bryan realized that if you totted up all his hospital bills for the ten years that he had been on the streets—as well as substance-abuse-treatment costs, doctors’ fees, and other expenses—Murray Barr probably ran …
100,000k homes – Moving In
The Reader by Brandon Vogel It was the first day — the first 6 a.m. shift — of Omaha Registry Week, a local effort to find and interview the city’s homeless population. Organizers and volunteers hoped to find housing for the most vulnerable folks. I was riding with Methaney and Smolsky, two of almost 75 …
100,000 Homes
Program’s goal: Make homeless healthier By Erin Grace Being homeless can kill you. Living on the street can shave 25 years off a person’s life. And death can come within seven years when being homeless is paired with one of eight risk factors, like age, disease and multiple emergency room visits. Published Wednesday October 6, …
Is housing a right or privilege?
Nashville’s Chronically Homeless: Housing Model Slow to Catch On In Nashville, most homeless outreach agencies believe a home is something that must be earned. Roughly four years ago, the Metro Homelessness Commission decided that approach wasn’t cutting it, that too many chronically homeless lingered on the streets and it was costing the city money. The …
Is Your (Housing) Partner Faithful?
From the End Homelessness Blog on Change.org…
Project would give vets homes (in Omaha)
“The building would have 50 studio apartments, and most of the other units would have one bedroom, said Linda Twomey of the VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System. There would be several two-bedroom units. The housing would be primarily for homeless veterans but also for other low-income veterans, she said. One floor of the building …
‘Housing first’ and helping the homeless
Initial findings on ‘housing first’ programs, such as Project 50 in Los Angeles, show that they may be a solution to chronic homelessness and possibly save taxpayer money. In its recent series on a controversial program for the homeless, The Times described a project called Project 50 that seeks to put a roof over the …
To fight homelessness, turn Project 50 into Project 10,000
Many of you were present for Dr. Dennis Culhane’s presentation in Omaha last April. Here is his op-ed regarding the controversial LA Times series. – Erin Bock, Program Coordinator, MACCH (Metro Area Continuum of Care for the Homeless)
Homes for the hardest of the hard-core homeless
L.A. County workers identify the 50 people likeliest to die on skid row’s streets and find them housing, with no requirement that they quit drugs, stop drinking or seek psychiatric help. August 01, 2010|By Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times The searchers carved skid row into quadrants and advanced in small groups, aiming flashlights into the …
