While the Alliance to House Everyone's goal of 90 families wasn't met, agencies found system improvements to house families more quickly.
It's our privilege to produce journalism that fosters democracy this election year, but we can't do it alone. Will you contribute today to helpA family walks through the Haven for Hope campus on the West Side, where many families experiencing homelessness are seeking shelter. of government and nonprofit service providers, housed 77 families between Dec.
Though the goal wasn’t met, important system changes were made during the challenge to make it easier to house families and other individuals more quickly, said Katie Vela Wilson, executive director of Close to Home. “A lot of great things have come out of this collaboration” despite not reaching the 90-family goal, she said. “We’ve made some system changes that we think will help get families connected more efficiently to housing.”
Haven for Hope, the city’s largest homeless shelter and resource hub, is still operating a makeshift overflow shelter for families at its near West Side campus, Haven President and CEO Kim Jefferies said last week during a panel discussion at St. Mary’s University. They are at Haven, she said, because “something happened, they got sick and were working an hourly job and got behind on their bills and just couldn’t make rent because they wanted to put food on the table instead.”
With the moratorium lifted, assistance funds reduced and rising inflation and housing costs, “we’re seeing the most families we’ve ever seen in our emergency shelters, at least in the last 10 years,” she said.Though not specifically aimed at families, a new, city-funded pilot at Haven for Hope has brought in 81 people from the streets into shelters in its first four weeks, Jeffries said.
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