the TYP to end Homelessness in Knoxville has it’s own website http://knoxtenyearplan.org and actively responds to comments and questions. Transparency and connection with the community – I like it.
Read More Knoxville Tenn. openly discussed 10 year planI wonder if Dallas Texas City Council member Dave Neumann and Scott Griggs, president of the Fort Worth Avenue Development Group want to know about the mental health and income of everyone in their city – or if they are prejudice against the homeless? Apparently if you have been homeless then you should not be able to […]
Read More NIMBY-ism in Dallas housing solutionThere is an argument that when the tax payers bailed out the banks and mortgage industries without our dollars that the foreclosed and vacant homes held by those companies then became publically owned and could and should be seen as “public housing” for the homeless and low-income. A Group in Madison Wisconsin is taking that stance and moving […]
Read More Did the bank bail out make federal housing?California In California, the Fair Market Rent (FMR) for a two-bedroom apartment is $1,327. In order to afford this level of rent and utilities, without paying more than 30% of income on housing, a household must earn $4,423 monthly or $53,079 annually. Assuming a 40-hour work week, 52 weeks per year, this level of income […]
Read More Housing Wage – how much you need to earn to live in CaliforniaI received a comment that Koch Industries funding for the homeless would be wasted because “those kind of people” are not good press and instead of supporting the effort to end the causes or symptoms of homelessness – funders will be “bemoaned”. Really? What kind of people are the homeless really and how do you see […]
Read More “THOSE kind of people”I am asked, regularly, if I am forcing homeless families to find housing, to seek shelter, to rent apartments. And, if they do not do these activities will they lose their cash aid or other entitlements. The answer is NO. I do give everyone a 90 day head start and every resource I know in […]
Read More Can you force me to be housed?From my perspective, mothers need BOTH a stable place to feel secure in their physical environment and security in their emotional environment to feel successful. The same can be said of everyone, actually. Poor single mothers who had experienced an episode of homelessness and had symptoms of depression, but had a work history of […]
Read More Can mothers who are Homeless find successGot a Section 8 voucher? Need apartment listings for Section 8 and market rate apartments? this is the FREE rental listing guide that sorts by rent, zip code, size, etc . . . http://www.socialserve.com/tenant/CA/Search.html?city_id=42665&ch=HACLA&type=rental
Read More Find Housing in LABOARD of SUPERVISORS are looking at cutting Section 8 Housing. Ummm – bad plan!
Read More March 23rd meeting to discuss cutting housing to the homelessNew York Work Advantage program is housing families in homes that are in foreclosure, apartments with mold, mice and no hot water. the Daily News has more information The Advantage program sounds wonderful. It is not tied in to the welfare system and offers life skills, budgeting and legal services. The problem is that while […]
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