Exclusive Content: Housing & Homelessness

New Years Eve 2021 – A Time for Celebration and Review!

Posted on December 31, 2021

Photo by Tabitha Mort from Pexels Today’s Buzz is brought to you by Marshall Curry, Program Manager for EPIC-N. You can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn What I’m Reading:1-2-3 Magic: Gentle 3-Step Child & Toddler Discipline for Calm, Effective, and Happy Parenting by Thomas Phelan, PhD What I’m listening to: Foo Fighters, Modest Mouse, and other alt rock that gets me...

The Many Benefits of Community Gardens

Posted on July 8, 2021

Today’s Morning Buzz is by Rebecca Cormier, ELGL member, govtech enthusiast, and environmental advocate. Connect on Twitter and LinkedIn What I’m Reading: In This Together, How Republicans, Democrats, Capitalists, and Activists Are Uniting to Tackle Climate Change and More, by Trammell S. Crow and Bill Shireman What I’m Watching: The Americans-I have just started so...

The Best Time To Build Housing

Posted on June 9, 2021

Right Now with Nick Smith (Linkedin/Twitter) What I’m watching: Clips from "This Old House" on YouTube What I’m reading: Your Computer Is On Fire, about the death of techno-utopianism, and starting to uncover the biases built into computing structures What I’m listening to: Nirvana - Breed ... classic & perfect for 30 years now. As a suburban...

Fort Lauderdale Reopened Community Court Services

Posted on December 17, 2020

This article was shared with us by Chris Leonard, Community Court Coordinator for the 17th Judicial Circuit Community Court in Fort Lauderdale. This program is an innovative approach to providing services to neighbors experiencing homelessness. With COVID-19 concerns, they have transitioned from in-person meet ups to an open-air facility where participants can interact with providers,...

Rewind: How One Community Decreased Unsheltered Homelessness by 30% in Two Years

Posted on July 29, 2020

This webinar originally aired on July 29, 2020. In 2017 Marin County, CA had the seventh highest rate of per capita homelessness in the entire country. However, from 2017 to 2019, Marin reduced overall homelessness by 7%, chronic homelessness by 28%, and San Rafael, Marin’s largest city, witnessed a 30% reduction in unsheltered homelessness. Come...

Hunger and Homelessness Happen, Together We Can Make It Better!

Posted on November 21, 2018

What I am watching: Manifest What I am reading: Crucial Confrontations What I am most thankful for: The community in Broomfield, Colorado. In my free time, I serve as the Chair for the Board of Trustees for my local food bank. In the last week, our community has been so amazingly generous with funds, and...

Part 2: Employment & Homelessness

Posted on June 4, 2018

According to the 2017 Homeless Point-in-Time Count, of the 1,100 people experiencing homelessness in Marin, only 15% were employed. Despite this low rate of employment, of the people who were unemployed, only 23% reported being unable to work. Therefore, there is a tremendous opportunity to help people experiencing homelessness in Marin reenter the workforce. To that...

Part 1: Employment & Homelessness

Posted on May 17, 2018

According to the 2017 Homeless Point-in-Time Count, of the 1,100 people experiencing homelessness in Marin, only 15% were employed. Despite this very low rate of employment, of the people who were unemployed, only 23% reported being unable to work. Therefore, there is a tremendous opportunity to help people experiencing homelessness in Marin reenter the workforce....

Step 3 to Ending Chronic Homelessness

Posted on July 21, 2017

This is the sixth post in a series about homelessness from San Rafael’s Director of Homeless Planning & Outreach, Andrew Hening. In each post, Andrew will discuss the root causes, overarching strategies and tactics for addressing homelessness in your community. Over the past year the County of Marin, local service providers, and the City of...

Step 2 to Ending Chronic Homelessness

Posted on July 11, 2017

This is the fifth post in a new blog series about homelessness (and the second in a three-part series about how to solve chronic homelessness) from San Rafael’s Director of Homeless Planning & Outreach, Andrew Hening. In each post, Andrew will discuss the root causes, overarching strategies and tactics for addressing homelessness in your community. Learn...

Step 1 to Ending Chronic Homelessness

Posted on July 6, 2017

This is the fourth post in a new blog series about homelessness (and the first in a three-part series about how to solve chronic homelessness) from San Rafael’s Director of Homeless Planning & Outreach, Andrew Hening. In each post, Andrew will discuss the root causes, overarching strategies and tactics for addressing homelessness in your community. Learn...

What is Chronic Homelessness?

Posted on June 29, 2017

This is the third post in a new blog series about homelessness from San Rafael’s Director of Homeless Planning & Outreach, Andrew Hening. In each post, Andrew will discuss the root causes, overarching strategies and tactics for addressing homelessness in your community. Learn more about what San Rafael is doing to end homelessness. “For 80% of...

The 5 Local Approaches to Homelessness

Posted on June 23, 2017

This is the second post in a new blog series about homelessness from San Rafael’s Director of Homeless Planning & Outreach, Andrew Hening. In each post, Andrew will discuss the root causes, overarching strategies and tactics for addressing homelessness in your community. Learn more about what San Rafael is doing to end homelessness. Last time we...

The History of Modern Homelessness

Posted on June 20, 2017

Welcome to a new blog series about homelessness from San Rafael's Director of Homeless Planning & Outreach, Andrew Hening. In each post, Andrew will discuss the root causes, overarching strategies and tactics for addressing homelessness in your community. Learn more about what San Rafael is doing to end homelessness. Did Homelessness Start in 1982? Homelessness...

Meet the Panelists: Andrew Hening, City of San Rafael, CA

Posted on January 5, 2017

For our first-ever webinar policy summit on homelessness, we're pleased to welcome five amazing speakers on the topic. Because a web-based conference doesn't give you the same opportunity to get to know the speakers, we're doing speaker profiles in advance of the policy summit. Don't forget to RSVP for the summit session(s), schedule for January...