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The Campaign truly felt like a national movement in March, as communities from Alaska to Virginia held registry weeks to identify and survey their most vulnerable and chronically homeless neighbors. Registry weeks are a key part of this movement, because they help communities know every homeless person on the streets by name. We will never solve homelessness in America without accomplishing that pivotal goal.
We’ve seen a pattern of whole states enrolling in the Campaign lately, and now you can add Colorado to that list! In Colorado, faced with a variety of state-specific needs and conditions, organizers have carefully customized the Campaign’s Vulnerability Index (VI) to capture additional, locally relevant data while preserving the tool’s research-based core.
Last week, in a major victory for ending homelessness, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors approved the development of a $1.2 million dollar pilot program to provide housing vouchers for chronically homeless individuals and families identified by groups like Housing 1000 – a remarkable Santa Clara County organization participating in the 100,000 Homes Campaign. The initiative establishes a bold new template for other counties looking to save money and end homelessness at the same time.
Combat ought to be the most difficult experience of a veteran’s life, but our new report on veteran homelessness reveals that many veterans go on to become homeless for eight or nine times the length of their deployments.
It's official!
100 communities across the country have joined our collaborative effort to find permanent housing for 100,000 of the most medically vulnerable homeless Americans by July of 2013. Together, these communities, including over 3,000 volunteers, are part of a growing movement and have already helped 10,838 homeless people into permanent homes. States with the most participating communities include California and Florida. The 100th community to join is Bethesda, MD.
If you saw the Campaign on the CBS Evening News this week, you learned about the remarkable story of Bruce Marzett, a Vietnam combat veteran who survived nearly 20 years of homelessness before moving into a permanent apartment last month.
Our 1-Year Anniversary report is out, and you won't want to miss it.
Click below for detailed case studies, national data from over 18,000 Vulnerability Index surveys, top community housing rates, and a special letter from Campaign Director Becky Kanis!
Read the report!
Santa Clara County, CA has completed its local Registry Week, and the community is buzzing.
After cementing an innovative funding partnership with the EPA last month, the local Campaign team mobilized hundreds of volunteers to comb area streets block by block to identify their most vulnerable homeless neighbors.
It's been an amazing month for our efforts to house 100,000 vulnerable homeless people by July of 2013. Since our last update, the Campaign has added two new communities, and now includes 85 communities nationwide. These communities have reported 1,186 new permanent housing placements, raising the Campaign’s total reported number housed to 9,003.
Homelessness in New Orleans spiked 70 percent in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, but in the last two years, it has fallen rapidly thanks to the work of local Campaign leaders. That's the exciting news reported today by UNITY of Greater New Orleans, the local collaborative leading the city's Campaign effort.
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