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  • How Philadelphia Kept Thousands of Tenants From Being Evicted

    July 13, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A program that came about during the COVID-19 pandemic requires tenants to be granted an opportunity for mediation with their landlord if they owe less than $3,000 in back rent before the landlord issues an eviction notice. If after 30 days there isn’t an agreement — or the tenant hasn’t shown up to the mediation — the landlord can follow through with the eviction. This program provides tenants with an opportunity to stay in their homes and has helped more than 4,000 people since starting in late 2020.

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  • L.A.'s new homeless solution clears camps but struggles to house people

    July 13, 2023 |

    CalMatters |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Inside Safe addresses the significant homelessness crisis in the city by traveling to encampments and offering people hotel rooms to stay in where they are connected with permanent housing and other necessary resources, like mental health care. Hotel rooms provide people with a safe space to heal and rest while working with a case worker to find housing. The initiative has so far moved 1,373 people into hotel rooms and 77 of them have moved into permanent housing.

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  • Everyone's tired of homelessness in California. Are you willing to rent your extra room to help?

    July 11, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Homecoming Project helps provide housing for formerly incarcerated people by matching those in need with homeowners offering spare bedrooms. Since starting in 2018, The Homecoming Project has placed nearly 100 people in host homes and has helped those individuals connect with employment and long-term housing.

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  • Mental Health Respite Facilities Are Filling Care Gaps in Over a Dozen States

    July 11, 2023 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Dewitt, Iowa

    Rhonda’s House is a respite program that provides a nurturing living environment for people experiencing mental health crises that don’t require immediate medical attention. Trained professionals at respites care for patients, making it so they don’t have to visit ERs or psychiatric institutions. There are 42 community-based respite programs across 14 states and Rhonda’s House specifically has cared for 392 people over the past five years. Those who seek respite have seen positive effects like reduced hospitalizations.

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  • Larchmere Homes: 30 new affordable lease-purchase homes near completion

    July 11, 2023 |

    The Land |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    The CHN Housing Partners’ lease-purchase program builds affordable homes for low-income individuals to rent. Residents live and pay rent in the homes for 15 years while taking homeownership and financial counseling courses to equip them with the knowledge and skills necessary to become homeowners. Over the past 30 years, CHN has built more than 1,700 lease-purchase homes and more than 1,600 of them have been sold to owner-occupants.

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  • A Sacramento group united an affordable housing complex. Here's how it changed lives

    July 07, 2023 |

    Sacramento Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    The GreenHouse provides after-school programming for children living in one of Sacramento’s most densely-populated affordable housing communities. Over the past 20 years, roughly 1,000 children have participated in the organization’s programs, including homework help, social events, internship and leadership opportunities, and more.

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  • How Texas shrank its homelessness population — and what it can teach California

    June 28, 2023 |

    CalMatters |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Efforts throughout Texas to reduce homelessness are serving as inspiration for states like California, that have similar homelessness issues. From committing funding to homeless reduction programs to establishing more advanced shelters like The Navigation Center, the state recorded a 28% drop in homelessness last year and has helped several individuals transition into permanent housing.

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  • A Texas city shelters nearly all homeless residents in one place. It's turning heads in California

    June 28, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

    Haven for Hope is a large, 22-acre, 1,600-person shelter that serves 85% of the city’s homeless population. It’s an all-inclusive space that provides a place to stay, as well as access to services like medical and dental care, counseling services, mental health care, childcare, job and housing assistance.

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  • On the Brink of Homelessness, San Diego Woman Wins the Medi-Cal Lottery

    June 13, 2023 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    California’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is piloting a program that covers rental move-in costs for low-income people in need, specifically those experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The goal is to keep people out of expensive institutions, like emergency rooms, by providing services like housing assistance and healthy food. So far, 20 locals have received Medi-Cal’s housing move-in assistance.

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  • To Reduce Infant Mortality, Just Add Stable Housing

    June 09, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    Healthy Beginnings At Home provides rental assistance and housing support to pregnant women in unstable housing situations. The program originally started as a research study and proved that providing adequate housing support led to reduced infant mortality. The program helps connect those in need with affordable housing and even covers rent for several months while the moms get adjusted.

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