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  • Can a Minuscule Nonprofit Help San Francisco Win Its War on Homelessness?

    June 29, 2016 |

    San Francisco Magazine |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Solving the homeless crisis in San Francisco requires many different initiatives, some of which can be costly. North Beach Citizens is a small non-profit, founded by Francis Ford Coppola, has managed to offer temporary housing and peer support for the homeless. Since 2005, the organization has found permanent housing for over 100 clients and has operated with mostly private donations.

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  • Seattle non-profit helping move homeless out of encampments and into homes

    June 29, 2016 |

    KCPQ-TV |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Seattle’s homeless camps are full of destitution. In less than one year, the Low Income Housing Institute has helped dozens of people to transition from the camps into housing. Providing more access to shelter has also facilitated the poor to re-enter the workplace.

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  • SF opens new full-service shelter to get homeless off streets

    June 28, 2016 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco’s poorly staffed shelters have led many homeless to choose to stay on the street. The Navigation Center, a homeless shelter with many amenities and staff, enables the homeless to keep their personal belongings with them and accepts romantic partners as well as pets. Successfully implemented in the Mission District, San Francisco has opened a second Navigation Center on Market Street and has hopes to continue to scale the project.

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  • On the Streets of the Tenderloin, ‘a Light in an Unlit World'

    June 28, 2016 |

    KQED |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Homelessness has been a consistent problem in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. While churches can offer a form of sanctuary, some homeless persons cannot maintain the composure for a long mass. S.F. Night Ministry offers open cathedrals, which are services outside the church but offer comfort, prayer, and friendship.

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  • Houston's solution to the homeless crisis: Housing — and lots of it

    June 13, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The second part in a series of stories about Seattle's response to their homeless crisis. Here, officials look to the example of Houston to create housing options for homeless veterans and former convicts.

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  • Seattle may try San Francisco's ‘radical hospitality' for homeless

    June 11, 2016 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco officials converted an abandoned school on the Mission’s skid row into a special kind of shelter with the means to take chronically homeless adults from the street and entire encampment communities, then navigate them into housing, without the traditional, degrading rules and regulations of other shelters. It’s become one of the most closely watched homeless-related projects in the country, and Seattle is one of the cities looking to potentially replicate their model to help address the homelessness crisis.

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  • Giving Homeless People Homes In SF Saved City 56% In Costs Over 4 Years

    June 03, 2016 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    In San Francisco, empirical evidence emerges that providing housing to the homeless reduces the overall cost to the average taxpayer, in large part by reducing homeless populations' dependence on other city services and improving their health by offering shelter.

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  • A Plan to Flood San Francisco With News on Homelessness

    May 15, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Journalists in San Francisco, frustrated at inaction over the city’s homeless crisis, are planning coordinated coverage on the issue.

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  • As A Guerrilla Movement, Tiny Homes May Emerge As Alternative To Shelters

    May 04, 2016 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Tiny homes are a growing solution to homeless veterans and vulnerable youth, especially those who identify as LGBTQ. But the movement faces challenges from regulations and neighbors across the nation.

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  • Should We Give Homeless People Homes?

    April 26, 2016 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Canada, Medicine Hat

    The city of Medicine Hat in Canada ended homelessness by giving every person living in the streets a home. The Inquiry looks into whether this "Housing First" approach could work in other cities.

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