While there are significant challenges to ending unsheltered homelessness in rural America, employment is a key solution. Recently, the Colorado Center for Law and Social Policy interviewed workforce directors, Colorado Employment First managers, and job coaches across 25 counties in […]
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Court Says Cities Can’t Criminalize Sleeping Outside Absent Other Housing or Shelter Options
Written by Eric Tars, Senior Attorney, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. Last Tuesday, September 4, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that people experiencing homelessness cannot be punished for sleeping outside in the absence of adequate alternatives. The […]
Being Rural in the CoC Competition
Written by Zach Brown, West Virginia Balance of State Continuum of Care This post is part of a series to support communities as they complete their 2018 NOFA applications. You can see previous entries here, here, here, and here. The Continuum of […]
Sustaining Momentum after a Learning Collaborative
This post is part of a National Alliance to End Homelessness series highlighting the Rapid Re-Housing Learning Collaboratives in Georgia and Maryland. Read more about Learning Collaboratives here. Almost one year ago, 15 service providers across the State of Georgia […]
Would Adding More Emergency Shelter Help Reduce Unsheltered Homelessness? It’s Complicated…
This post is part of Unsheltered, an Alliance blog series to exploring the crisis of unsheltered homelessness in the United States. You can catch up on the whole series here. It’s easy to wonder why we don’t just build more shelter […]