Blog Key Issue: Workforce
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Honoring Our Sector on Labor Day
You arrive miraculously on time to work to find stacks of paperwork decorating your desk. You learn that your reliable co-worker has COVID and cannot come in to work for a week. Your other five colleagues quit three months ago, and their positions are still vacant.
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Making Progress on Homelessness Requires Support for Our Workforce
People ask me all the time in this tough environment what gives me hope. I always respond that it’s the people I work with and get to meet when I travel. All…
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Bringing Incredible Advocates Together in D.C.: The Impact of Capitol Hill Day 2023
Hope, enthusiasm, and camaraderie flooded Capitol Hill last month as more than 400 amazing homelessness and housing advocates walked…
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Where Congress Stands on Homelessness Funding
When the Senate’s funding bill for affordable housing and homelessness programs was released on July 20, it was clear that our collective advocacy leading up to and on the …
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The Toll of Being an Employee of Color in the Homeless Services System
Recently, I looked through the list of names of my former clients who died over the years. I obtained this list at last December’s local National…
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A Love Letter to Service Providers
February is the month of love. Valentine’s Day is an official opportunity to express appreciation for our loved ones. In truth, we try our best to do that every month. The National Alliance to End…
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Illustrating the Limits of Homeless Sector Wages: Employees Likely Struggle to Pay the Rent
Homeless service providers shouldn’t have to worry about becoming homeless themselves. Yet, with provider salaries that struggle to keep up with the cost of living, and organizations that…