By: Tim Houchen December 1, 2018 — There are so many ways that a human being can die and persons experiencing homelessness are no different, with one exception. Homeless persons live from day-to-day…
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By: Steve Berg November 26, 2018 — The last few weeks have been full of activity, and the midterms make for a lot of change when the new 116th Congress begins on January 3. But the 115th Congress still…
By: Kristi Schulenberg November 19, 2018 — Street Outreach staff often share a similar story… Someone they know has been living on the street for a long time and continually turns down assistance or…
By: Tim Houchen November 17, 2018 — On Thursday night November 15th, United to End Homelessness brought its latest roadshow, Homelessness 101, To the EV Free Evangelical Church of Fullerton. There was a great…
By: Tarryn Mento October 24, 2018 — Fannie Morgan shuffled through a folder of rental documents to find the monthly increase notices she unexpectedly received in April. The petite 64-year-old is on a fixed income…
By Noelle Porter October 15, 2018 — With less than a month to go until the 2018 elections, your TVs, computers, and phones are dominated by candidates telling you where they stand on health care,…
By: Tim Houchen October 8, 2018 — Proposition 2, which will appear on the November 6th ballot, would allow California to move forward with a program called, No Place Like Home (NPLH), and finances the…
This is part 2 in a series of posts with information, articles and webinars regarding Emergency Homeless Shelters By: Tim Houchen October 5, 2018 — For the past 50 years or so, the U.S….
This is part 1 in a series of posts with information, articles and webinars regarding Emergency Homeless Shelters By: Tim Houchen October 4, 2018 — In July, I attended the National Conference on Homelessness…
By: Tim Houchen October 1, 2018 — It has been a long-time personal goal of mine to become actively and collaboratively engaged with stakeholders locally in the creation of a jobs program for persons experiencing…
Overview by: Tim Houchen September 29, 2018 — Home, Together: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, was issued in July 2018, covers Fiscal Years 2018 – 2022, and builds upon strategies and…
By: Tim Houchen September 27, 2018 — Successful homeless advocacy involves building public will around the idea of ending homelessness. It’s not always an easy task. What sometimes seems even more difficult is to…
By: Ryan Dowd September 25, 2018 — My “day job” is Executive Director of Hesed House, the second largest homeless shelter in Illinois. This week I want to share a letter I wrote for our next…
By: Tim Houchen September 16, 2018 — For a long time now, I’ve been holding on to a history lesson just waiting for the right moment and the right means for sharing it publicly….
By: Tim Houchen September 14, 2018 — On September 4, 2018, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that the state, county or cities may not “criminalize conduct that is an unavoidable consequence of being…