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Partnerships Drive New Housing Solutions in Hawaii
Kahauiki Village. December 10, 2018; Hawaii Business Magazine Hawaii has one of the most intractable housing problems in the country. Riding around O’ahu, the island of the city and county of Honolulu,...
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Kaiser Makes First Investments from $200 Million Affordable Housing Fund
“Community Healthcare Network Closeup.” Photo by: Leonardo Correa, Courtesy of Community Healthcare Network January 15, 2019; Fast Company As NPQ has widely covered, evidence has been mounting for some...
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Stewarding Housing Affordability through Land Trusts: An Ohio Example
COCIC–Franklin County Land Bank President/CEO Curtiss Williams, Sr. February 14, 2019; Columbus Business Journal In Columbus, Ohio, a community land trust is being launched to address housing...
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Reducing Homelessness to Zero—Really?
“Eight core principles of Housing First,” Housing First Europe March 11, 2019; Fast Company Homelessness is not a problem with a one-size-fits-all answer. Solutions to homelessness are complicated, and...
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Seattle’s Homeless Camp Residents and Support Nonprofits at Impasse
“Nickelsville all moved in at 25th & King.” April 3, 2019; The Stranger A few weeks ago, as NPQ reported, a battle loomed in Seattle between a series of small-home encampments sheltering people who...
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Court Rules That If You’re Homeless, Sleeping in Public Is Not a Crime
“Homeless Jesus outside St Ann’s Church.” cc-by-sa/2.0 – © David Dixon April 5, 2019; Curbed The 9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, which covers nine western US states (California, Washington,...
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Homelessness as a Given? The Loss of Urgency
Levi Clancy [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons June 18, 2019; KABC-TV In Los Angeles, the epicenter of “a particularly brutal style of homelessness” in which 75 percent of homeless people are...
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Did a Seattle Housing Nonprofit Sell its Soul to Amazon?
“Contract,” Jasper M. October 31, 2019; Next City Writing in Next City, Jared Brey profiles Plymouth Housing, a 40-year-old nonprofit that provides permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless...
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Marrying a Hospital to a Land Trust as a Public Health Strategy
“Wear and Tear,” Tim Roth February 13, 2020; Portland Tribune NPQ has covered the growth of community land trusts in the United States, and more recently, the emergence of land trust hospitals and...
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Amid Social Distancing, L.A. Families without Homes Reclaim Empty Houses
“Beaudry Fire Road,” James Diewald March 14, 2020; Los Angeles Times The threat of coronavirus is changing what people think of as “possible” or “acceptable” in terms of public assistance. This week,...
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US Cities Move to Provide Safer Spaces for Homeless People to Shelter in Place
“Coronavirus,” Fred Ortlip April 8, 2020; The Guardian and Street Sheet People experiencing homelessness are more vulnerable to COVID-19 for a host of reasons: they’re more prone to illnesses like...
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Pandemic Drives Emergency Housing Solutions—But There’s a Cliff Ahead
CC BY-SA 3.0, Link May 20, 2020; Shelterforce As Senator Bernie Sanders said often as he campaigned for the presidency, a half-million Americans are sleeping on the street tonight. California alone has...
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