About that ending of veterans homelessness in CT…

Yesterday, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced that Connecticut had ended veterans homelessness. The state actually accomplished this by the end of 2015, but they were waiting on the Department of Housing and Urban Development to officially verify it. It is one thing to say one has accomplished such a feat, and quite another to have …

Read Mother Jones’ take on ending homelessness in Utah

It’s really a shockingly simply solution. Connecticut, too, uses the Housing First model, with great success. And thanks, John, for this link.

Conservatives might think giving houses away is like this:

But check out this piece at The American Conservative, that argues in favor of Housing First — or getting people into housing and then dealing with their challenges — as both a morally and financially smart thing to do. They look to Utah, which they call the “fourth most conservative state in the union,” and …

Medicine Hat becomes first Canadian city to eliminate homelessness

If you think it can’t be done, look north Medicine Hat, a town of about 61,000 in southeast Alberta, which is about to declare homelessness a thing of the past. How? By giving people who are homeless their own apartments. And this with a conservative mayor who’s become a champion for the cause. We can …

So I went to the Annual Training Institute for CCEH yesterday

That’s CT Coalition to End Homelessness, to you. I’m on the board, and I got there late because I was recording a show for Monday’s “Where We Live” on — yes! — homelessness. Want to hear what we call homelessness is actually a rather recent construct? You can listen here, come 9 a.m. Monday. Click …