Blog Key Issue: Equity
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“A Change Is Gonna Come…” Reflections on #NAEH2023
Momentum is building and, with the right leadership, impactful change will come. That is what I took away from the assembly of more than 1100 people in the homeless services field, including…
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Keeping Up the Momentum: System Improvement as a Year-Round Process
Just thinking about the yearly Notice Of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) process can create feelings of anxiety, stress, and dread amongst homeless service providers and Continuum of Care (CoC)…
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Intersectionality and Homelessness: We Need to Take a Deeper Dive
Within many organizations, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) normally handles business public facing to the organization, and the Chief…
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New Report Examines Older Adult Exits from Homelessness
The population of older adults experiencing homelessness (ages 55 and over) is growing and vulnerable. Increased demands on homeless..
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5 Pandemic-Related Lessons from the New AHAR Report
Early voting and Election Day are both rapidly approaching. Ensuring that the voices of people experiencing homelessness are heard at the ballot box is important now more than ever. Here are…
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Services Not Sweeps: Ending the Criminalization and Forced Displacement of Unhoused People
Los Angeles – in addition to many other cities across the nation – has again intensified criminalization and forced displacement efforts over the…
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Recognizing Women Experiencing Homelessness: A Women’s History Month Spotlight on Downtown Women’s Center
The experience of homelessness bears especially hard on women. Homelessness experienced by women is made unique by their disproportionate experiences of…
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Race Equity and Unsheltered Homelessness: What We Learned at Our Conference and Where We Go From Here
Many in the homeless services field know that most minority groups are overrepresented in the homelessness system and generally experience homelessness at higher rates than Whites…
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Homelessness and Black History: Poverty and Income
This is the fourth installment in a series of posts examining the historic roots of homelessness and African Americans. Prior posts can be found here, here, and here.
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Homelessness and Black History: Access to Housing
Homelessness is what happens when housing is out of reach. The growing gap between increasing housing costs and static wages in recent years has meant constantly rising rates of…