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Samantha Batko
@thesamanthab
ending homelessness as a senior researcher
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. mom/partner and shark enthusiast she/her. views are my own.
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Samantha Batko
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Wondering how to target your CARES Act rent assistance? Rapid re-housing for people enduring living outside will help keep people from contracting COVID-19 and decrease communIty spread. No one is safe until everyone has a home: urbn.is/3eyosD2 via
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Why Communities Should Prioritize Rapid Re-housing for People Forced to Live Outside
Rapid re-housing can prevent people experiencing unsheltered homelessness from getting sick, slow the spread of COVID-19, and reduce the number of people involved with police encampment sweeps.
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Mark Horvath
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I've been thinking a lot about listening to homeless people. While I still feel it's vital, homeless people have been saying the same things: "we need housing" "shelters suck" "services suck" "sweeps destroy lives" "treat us with dignity" "we need housing", yet NOTHING changes.
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"What are we doing?” | Sen. Chris Murphy delivered an emotional plea for action on the Senate floor following the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that left 14 students and a teacher dead. cnn.it/38OdKLJ
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Axios
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Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland victim Jaime Guttenberg, said politicians who do not support gun control legislation “led us to” today’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.  "They f***ing failed our kids again, okay? I'm done.”
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Parkland father says politicians who don't support gun control “led us to” Uvalde shooting
"They f***ing failed our kids again, okay?" Fred Guttenberg said.
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Samantha Batko
@thesamanthab
More evidence that sweeps are harmful to people and also ineffective public policy.
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Jerry Jones
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One year ago, hundreds of LAPD cops swept a homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake. Of the 193 people formerly living at the park, a UCLA study finds that only 17 have been housed. At least 6 are now dead since their displacement. #EchoParkLakeDisplacement challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2022/03/23/dis
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Kay Moshier McDivitt
@Alliance_Kay
“But it's literally homelessness. It's not souplessness, ... It's not clotheslessness. It's not showerlessness. It's homelessness. Demonstrate for me how homelessness is ended with anything other than a set of keys, a lease and a place to call home." David Gillanders
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SF All In
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Thread: Meet Rebecca, a Black mother who struggled to find housing after being incarcerated. And she's not alone. bit.ly/3yFSJe5 Institutional barriers often keep formerly incarcerated ppl, and WOC in particular, from securing housing, creating a cycle of homelessness.
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Rebecca's Story: And Still, She Rose - All In
This is a woman's journey from homeless to housed, and how she overcame struggles with identity, substance, and incarceration to be the leader she is today.
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Samantha Batko
@thesamanthab
Adding our thanks to these 4 communities for participating in our research. w/
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@DuBois_Nicky
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Community Solutions
@cmtysolutions
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We are thankful to @CityofRockford; @MontgomeryCo, MD; @BergenCountyNJ; and @LakeCountyIL for not only achieving #FunctionalZero but participating in this research. (9/9) urban.org/research/publi
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Samantha Batko
@thesamanthab
Creating noncongregate shelter options, increasing rehousing, and targeting prevention to those that need it most urgently. What the State of Maine and Santa Clara County did to end and prevent homelessness during COVID-19 w/
@emily_peiffer
@DuBois_Nicky
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Urban Institute
@urbaninstitute
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New: How local leaders & service providers adapted their homelessness services when COVID-19 hit—& why the lessons they learned should inform changes that last beyond the pandemic in their own & other communities. urbn.is/3ylYGMX
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Samantha Batko
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Remaining questions include: (1) what are housing outcomes after program exit? (2) do youth increase employment and income while in program? (3) does their quality of life improve across other domains, including physical, mental, and behavioral health?
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Samantha Batko
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We’re evaluating the Rising Up program—RRH for young adults in San Francisco—and here are two important things we found in documenting the program model: (1) youth are choosing housing units that keep them close to and show their desire to live near family and friends;
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Urban Institute
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1. Providing young people with choices in their housing increases satisfaction, & supporting young people empowers them to navigate difficult housing decisions. (via @MattGerken, A. Williams, @TheAmandaGold, & @thesamanthab) urbn.is/2Y43TIC
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