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Voting #YesOnA will: ✅Keep critical care in place ✅Prevent homelessness from increasing ✅Ensure funding goes to the most effective services ✅Build more affordable housing The choice is simple 🤝 Say YES on A to prevent homelessness and build more housing people can afford. Learn more: https://yesona.la/

State and local governments must do all that they can to address homelessness. Homelessness IS solvable. Communities across the country are making progress in reducing homelessness. #HomelessnessIsSolvable Learn more about our policy recommendations: https://bit.ly/3LZMUjI

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Rapid Rehousing is a new approach to tackling homelessness in Wales. But what does it mean for Wales’ diverse communities, many of whom are overrepresented in our homeless system? Check out our guide on equalities and rapid rehousing: https://lnkd.in/enBnskmE

Let's help Anchorage continue on a path success in addressing homelessness! Providing access to affordable homes & voluntary services is more effective at ending homelessness than outdated & dehumanizing strategies like criminalization. Learn how criminalization exacerbates homelessness and what communities can do instead: https://lnkd.in/gmeQVSZg #EndHomelessness #AffordableHousing #CommunitySupport 🌟

THIS IS HOW TO MESSAGE: The evidence is clear: the only way to permanently remove homeless encampments is through housing and supportive services. Criminalizing homelessness will only lead to larger encampments and greater suffering. It's time to adopt evidence-based solutions and address the affordable housing crisis to ensure a more humane and effective response to homelessness.

Register today for our webinar on August 1st: "The Grants Pass Decision on Homelessness: An Inside Look" regarding the historic decision on homeless encampments on our city streets.

Our communities need long-term solutions that will keep us safe and securely housed! To prevent displacement and homelessness, @GovKathyHochul must pass #StatewideRTC (S2721) THIS YEAR, and fund its implementation with $260 million in the budget. #HochulsCourtsMustChange

My latest on Medium: There is plenty of evidence of programs that can work to reduce homelessness to an absolute minimum. Many localities could learn a lot from what has worked in other places. The bottom line is that affordable and available housing goes a long way to reducing homelessness.

Rather than punishing individuals without housing options, our communities should commit to the challenging yet sustainable work that has repeatedly proven effective in resolving homelessness. Learn more about #JohnsonVGrantsPass: https://bit.ly/3UyY4kD