.: "Supportive housing ends homelessness. It ends the cycle of jail and emergency health care, and it reduces the public costs of that cycle." (via ) urbn.is/3777WIR
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Reluctant tweeter focused on ending homelessness, improving neighborhoods, and helping government work better
Washington, DCJoined October 2011
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Spoiler alert: it was a big success!
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Five years ago, Denver launched a program to provide supportive housing and social services to people experiencing homelessness. How successful was it? @urbaninstitute’s @GillespieSarah_ answers that question and more, today on #ColoradoEdition. buff.ly/3723I5b
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There’s so much to dig into from the Denver SIB findings. Our analysis of health care outcomes (thanks to ) finds supportive housing helped people use less emergency health care & more office-based health care: urbn.is/3B8CDLs
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It’s been a long time coming! Forever impressed by how @MHCD_News & all the SIB partners do what they do.
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So excited to share the final results of the Denver SIB! Housing First Breaks the Homelessness-Jail Cycle: urbn.is/3AU4LSB via @urbaninstitute
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How is working to end the homelessness-jail cycle? #LiveAtUrban TODAY at 3pm EDT hear from , , , , , & as they discuss the results of the Denver SIB. urbn.is/3vZrE3e
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As of July 2018, 2.5 years into the Denver SIB, 85% of the 285 participants had remained in housing without ever exiting the program: urbn.is/36fi1mJ How are things going now? Join us #LiveAtUrban TODAY to learn more & hear the final findings. urbn.is/3vZrE3e
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Graduates from explain how to support students to and through college: tutoring, mentors, engaging lessons, and WIFI #PromiseNeighborhoods2020
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Celina Castro-Saelao from Promise Neighborhood emphasized the need for housing navigators who help simplify housing applications on a wide-ranging affordable housing panel including , , and Project Community Connections. #PromiseNeighborhoods2020
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"A belief in the potential of every child" - Phil from shared what it takes to be a case manager during #PromiseNeighborhoods2020
To learn more about case management across Promise Neighborhoods check out urban.org/sites/default/ with
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A key theme in today's #PromiseNeighborhoods2020 conference: it's okay to not be okay. In times of COVID and disparities in policing says the first question we should ask be asking students is "How are you doing?"
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So much gratitude for the work of Promise Neighborhoods and Full Service Community Schools this year. As and our other morning conference speakers said- you were made for a moment like this. #PromiseNeighborhoods2020
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“There’s a saying on City Hall that calls Camden ‘a city invincible.’ But I think more than that, it’s a city resilient.” How Promise Neighborhoods are working with residents to weather crises & transform communities: urbn.is/33xYUDi #PromiseNeighborhoods2020
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How has Mission Promise Neighborhood pivoted during #COVID19 to ensure Latinx families are still best supported? How is #affordablehousing still front and center? And how does Results-Based Accountability measure impact? Blog @ bit.ly/3o9S4M2. #PromiseNeighborhoods2020
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"We were built for this moment" Insights from amazing leaders in NYC, SF and KY on how to support communities through COVID-19. Excited for the next 3 days at #PromiseNeighborhoods2020
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Many cities respond to chronic homelessness using police. shares why putting housing first is more effective urbn.is/2VnztQD
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Not a single cent of the $484 billion in funding in the 4th stimulus bill will help struggling Americans pay rent. 40% of renters may be unemployed and unable to pay their share of the $50 billion in rent due next week. bit.ly/2Vx0WzT
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Key points from on Critical Value today:
1. The homeless and those at risk are vulnerable + can overwhelm the health system if sick
2. We need to get people housed + stop evictions
3. This will require a huge response
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At the risk of sounding like a broken record: homelessness is a solvable problem. and I wrote about what it takes.
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Effective shelters should:
🏠 offer immediate & low-barrier access to anyone facing a housing crisis
🏠 measure shelter performance to improve results
🏠 embrace a Housing First approach
Learn more from the Alliance's Emergency Shelter Learning Series:
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. covers a potentially punitive federal approach to homelessness in Houston and other cities: bit.ly/2M5RmPz
3 years ago, many partners in Houston cited as the city's closest federal partner in ending veteran homelessness: urbn.is/2Z2xi5F
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The number of people who are still in need of rental assistance is nearly three times the number of people who actually receive federal money.
The solution is clear: we need more funding for affordable housing.
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Cert denied in Boise v. Martin. Supreme Court will not take the case, 9th circuit decision stands. Arresting people for sleeping in the streets when there are no shelters violates the constitution
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"But passing laws to make it illegal to sleep outside or in your car doesn't resolve the problems of people who have no place to live. It just relocates them, in a season that exalts a family that 2,000 years ago, couldn't find room at the inn."
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.: Fresno saw a 60% decline in point-in-time homelessness counts by committing to Housing First & “all of the best practices coming out of over the last 10 years": urbn.is/2qUjKwE
We compiled those best practices here:
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Why does matter? offers 5 good reasons
✔️brought everyone to the table
✔️coordinated interagency response
✔️pushed leaders to follow evidence
✔️defined what it means to end homelessness
✔️enlisted 💰 in federal funding
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A reminder about why an evidence-based is important to ending homelessness, from
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The dream team!
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Thank you, @KatrinaBallard. Inspired by your vision, leadership, execution for #PromiseNeighborhoods2019
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The #PromiseNeighborhoods2019 team
Another annual conference in the books with 278 incredible grantees, partners, and experts!
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20-year-old school board member @MrStanCele speaks about his mentors on his advocacy journey on a panel with Janevette Cole, @PastorHathaway and #PromiseNeighborhoods2019
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shares 5 institutional forces of inwardness: mission, hierarchy, process, evidence, expertise. How can institutions share power with community as coproducers of better results? #PromiseNeighborhoods2019
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Problem solving around place-based work in face of displacement: community benefits agreements, tenant rights, organizing and other idea #promiseneighborboods2019. Thanks from and for facilitating
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Kilolo Kijakazi , Amanda Delabar Harriet Tubman Elementary School, Lisa X’Unyéil Worl Assoc of Alaska School Boards, Robert Woodson Woodson Center, discuss serving community with sensitivity to trauma and culture. #PromiseNeighborhoods2019
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from shares tools to bridge the science to service gap and improve implementation. Evidence based practices that skip the exploration stage can cost 8x as much to implement! #promiseneighborhoods2019
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Talking about partnerships as a pathway to systems change, from challenges Promise Neighborhoods to identify the opposition and troublemakers: what do they have to lose if progress is made? #PromiseNeighborhoods2019
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Josh Davis shares the only way he knows to create lasting change in 5 years is to change people’s knowledge and beliefs #promiseneighborhoods2019
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Excited to see communities and partners in DC this week for #PromiseNeighborhoods2019
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This week, we’re in Arlington, Va., for @usedgov and @urbaninstitute’s Promise Neighborhoods National Network Conference, where StriveTogether’s Josh Davis and @Monichols will share lessons on building strategic partnerships to better serve students. More: promiseneighborhoodsnnc.com
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How can maximize its investments aimed at ending homelessness? offers 4 strategies:
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What the research says, so far, about Rapid Re-Housing:urban.org/research/publi #rapidrehousing #endhomlessness
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