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Originally posted by marthawells
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The 100,000 Homes Project
100,000 Homes communities believe this traditional approach is backwards, and the data agrees with them. Countless studies have now shown that we must offer housing first, not last, if we want to help people out of homelessness. An immediate connection to permanent supportive housing can ensure that over 80% of homeless individuals remain housed, even among clients with severe substance abuse and mental health conditions.
I'd heard about this before the report on 60 Minutes but didn't know how many places were already having big successes with it. The site has a map where you can see what cities are participating and how far along they are.
This Indegogo needs some help: New Orleans is a food desert
It's weird, I know, because we have a huge reputation for our food-but our soil can't grow it, not after the storm. Everything comes through the port, down the river, on the highway. Other people bring food to New Orleans to sell. They build grocery stores in Metairie, downtown, Uptown, on Magazine.
But they don't build in the Lower 9th Ward.
There's no grocery store there. There hasn't been one since Katrina in 2005. It's an extreme low-income neighborhood that depends on a problematic inconvenient public transit systems to cross the city to get any fresh food.
Our School at Blair Grocery wants to change that.
Here is their IndieGogo.
Links:
The 100,000 Homes Project
100,000 Homes communities believe this traditional approach is backwards, and the data agrees with them. Countless studies have now shown that we must offer housing first, not last, if we want to help people out of homelessness. An immediate connection to permanent supportive housing can ensure that over 80% of homeless individuals remain housed, even among clients with severe substance abuse and mental health conditions.
I'd heard about this before the report on 60 Minutes but didn't know how many places were already having big successes with it. The site has a map where you can see what cities are participating and how far along they are.
This Indegogo needs some help: New Orleans is a food desert
It's weird, I know, because we have a huge reputation for our food-but our soil can't grow it, not after the storm. Everything comes through the port, down the river, on the highway. Other people bring food to New Orleans to sell. They build grocery stores in Metairie, downtown, Uptown, on Magazine.
But they don't build in the Lower 9th Ward.
There's no grocery store there. There hasn't been one since Katrina in 2005. It's an extreme low-income neighborhood that depends on a problematic inconvenient public transit systems to cross the city to get any fresh food.
Our School at Blair Grocery wants to change that.
Here is their IndieGogo.