Housing Narrative Lab’s Post

One of the best ways to reduce adult homelessness is to prevent young people from experiencing it in the first place. In Washington, a strategic focus on early intervention and data-driven policies led to a 40 percent reduction in youth and young adult homelessness. Learn more about how collaboration between young people, advocates, policymakers, and funders helped make this possible: https://lnkd.in/ePXGyXnZ

The clinical and financial cost of homelessness is high. We partnered with a managed care organization to identify potential cost reductions and build a homelessness program that helps high-risk members find housing and receive essential care, resulting in a first-year return of $2.4 million. Learn more about how we’re making a difference: https://bit.ly/3UjbiRS

You can have your say on our approach to tackling homelessness and rough sleeping in the borough, with a consultation now open. Read the full story, including how to participate: https://ow.ly/tq4x50TmKB2

In 2023, we helped prevent 202 people from experiencing homelessness. “… people don’t think the service is for them until they have no home. Not a lot of people know that we can help or advise people in that situation” Our latest blog shares insights into the vital and collaborative work that our team carries out to prevent someone sleeping outside: https://lnkd.in/eB_HSZN7

In this session, we will hear from OMSSA Members on how to improve homelessness policies at both the micro and macro levels. This includes presentations on: Addressing Shelter-Based Violence Through Adaptations to Service Delivery, Program Policies, and Data Use, Evidence-Based Policy Moves to Shift from Addressing Homelessness to Ending Homelessness, and Using Data to Drive Continuous System Improvement to Advance Reductions in Homelessness. Learn more: https://ow.ly/gsOY50Rji9r

Share your stories of how camp removals has impacted your life.

Tonight, area jurisdictions and community partners will be out conducting the annual Point In Time Count, which helps track how many residents are unsheltered in a community. The valuable data & insights collected guide COG's Annual Report on Homelessness in Metropolitan Washington. Read last year's report: https://bit.ly/49aatA1

IF YOU ARE NOT PART OF A PERMANENT AND LASTING SOLUTION TO THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS AND HOMELESSNESS, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM! THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IS BROKEN AND NOT WORKING FOR AMERICAN TAXPAYERS Veteran Housing Corp would ask every TAXPAYER to demand and get answers from their elected and appointed government officials the below questions as they relate to any affordable, workforce, or supportive housing project in your community! 1. How much local, state, and federal funding, tax credits, or other government benefits or incentives did the project receive? 2. What is the affordability period for each project? Is the affordability period permanent and in perpetuity? 3. What guarantees exist have your local, state, and federal government officials obtained in writing that rents will not go up or that tenants will not be displaced or evicted after the "affordability period expires? Every local, state, and federal housing authority and affordable or workforce housing stakeholder should adopt the State of Vermont's "permanent affordability" policy as a model for all future government funded or subsidized housing projects or developments, no exceptions! https://lnkd.in/eFEUC8c8 Additionally, local, state and federal housing agencies should look to the Helsinki, FINLAND MODEL of ending homelessness by providing affordable housing for all 'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness https://lnkd.in/er9HZSQU Even the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development AGREES THAT adopting FINLAND'S MODEL OF ERADICATING HOMELESSNESS may be of great value to resolving the affordable housing and homelessness crises in America https://lnkd.in/gkSZWYRU

When viewed side-by-side, investing in evidence-based homeless services is far more effective than criminalization. A new analysis from National Alliance to End Homelessness compares the two approaches. https://lnkd.in/g6w-SmkB #JohnsonVGrantsPass.

Veteran Housing Corp says that IF YOU ARE NOT PART OF A PERMANENT AND LASTING SOLUTION TO THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS AND HOMELESSNESS, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM! THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IS BROKEN AND NOT WORKING FOR AMERICAN TAXPAYERS Veteran Housing Corp would ask every TAXPAYER to demand and get answers from their elected and appointed government officials the below questions as they relate to any affordable, workforce, or supportive housing project in your community! 1. How much local, state, and federal funding, tax credits, or other government benefits or incentives did the project receive? 2. What is the affordability period for each project? Is the affordability period permanent and in perpetuity? 3. What guarantees exist have your local, state, and federal government officials obtained in writing that rents will not go up or that tenants will not be displaced or evicted after the "affordability period expires? Every local, state, and federal housing authority and affordable or workforce housing stakeholder should adopt the State of Vermont's "permanent affordability" policy as a model for all future government funded or subsidized housing projects or developments, no exceptions! https://lnkd.in/eFEUC8c8 Additionally, local, state and federal housing agencies should look to the Helsinki, FINLAND MODEL of ending homelessness by providing affordable housing for all 'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness https://lnkd.in/er9HZSQU Even the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development AGREES THAT adopting FINLAND'S MODEL OF ERADICATING HOMELESSNESS may be of great value to resolving the affordable housing and homelessness crises in America https://lnkd.in/gkSZWYRU