“I couldn’t put a mother with a teenage son in a women’s shelter, but I can put a mother with a teenage son in a cottage,” Price said. “We will be able to put fathers with children here on campus.”
Cottages in Pathway Village will be able to house a mother and up to five children. Pathway House is currently in Phase 1 of the development of Pathway Village. The shelter is looking for cottage sponsorships from businesses and individuals - it currently has funding for six of the 12 cottages in the first phase - and is seeking donations from the public for the development of a centralized, commercial dining hall between the village and the men’s and women’s shelter, along with furnishings for the cottages.
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People First: One Size Does Not Fit All
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Homelessness is a rapidly growing challenge throughout the United States.
HUD is the largest funder of homelessness. Its funding is largely distributed through counties and through an additional layer of bureaucracy created under Housing First called Continuum of Care boards (CoCs). More than 230 counties and CoCs across the nation followed HUD in adopting Housing First as their one-size-fits-all policy, including ECHO, the CoC that oversees Austin’s HUD funding.
Housing First was initially introduced by HUD in 2008 to address the chronically homeless those struggling with severe mental illness and addiction, largely the ones we see on the streets. The idea was to get them off the streets and into housing as quickly as possible as “the system” was incurring significant costs due to them living on the streets.
As a community, we have all been impacted financially, physically, emotionally, and/or socially by the pandemic. Without question, vulnerable populations experiencing homelessness in our community have been disproportionately impacted. According to the last point-in-time count conducted in early 2020 even before the impacts of COVID Long Beach saw a 7% rise in the number of individuals experiencing homelessness.
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Solutions have been proposed. Government programs exist. Stimulus checks, rent relief, food drives, and eviction moratoriums provide households with the temporary means to be able to feed their families, pay bills, and keep a roof over their heads. The recent Long Beach Recovery Plan also included federal funding to homeless services. This will not be enough.
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Ending the Hierarchy of Homelessness, Getting Everyone Housed
The number of military veterans experiencing homelessness in the United States was cut nearly in half between 2010 and 2016, the result of a focus on veterans’ homelessness by the Obama administration.
By Neill Coleman
The number of military veterans experiencing homelessness in the United States was cut nearly in half between 2010 and 2016, the result of a focus on veterans’ homelessness by the Obama administration.