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03/10/2010 Ranks of Homeless Veterans Drops 18 Percent News Publisher: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

The number of Veterans homeless on a typical night dropped 18 percent as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) entered the second year of its campaign to eliminate homelessness among Veterans within five years.

03/03/2010 Annie E. Casey Foundation Pledges Additional $25Million For Socially Responsible Investment Practices Baltimore, Maryland | Press Release Publisher: Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Annie E. Casey Foundation announced today an additional $25 million allocation for social investments – a set of strategies that would use endowment dollars to generate financial returns as well as social returns that advance the Foundation’s mission to improve the lives of vulnerable children and families.

02/23/2010 MacArthur Awards $6 Million to Support Research on How Housing Matters to Children, Families, and Communities Press Release Publisher: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced today competitive research grants totaling nearly $6 million to 13 institutions to explore how housing matters to children, families, and communities. The grants will be used to produce a base of empirical evidence to show how housing affects children’s cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development and how housing choices shape the economic, physical, and emotional well-being of adults.

02/23/2010 REDF's Carla Javits talks about how to provide job opportunities to those with the greatest barriers to employment News Publisher: KQED Radio Author: Carla Javits

A radio interview with REDF's Carla Javits.

02/15/2010 Despite stepped-up efforts, Hawaii cannot keep pace with swelling numbers of homeless Honolulu, Hawaii | News Publisher: The Star Bulletin Author: Susan Essoyan

Hawaii has taken bold steps to house the homeless during the past few years, opening six new shelters since May 2006 and helping thousands of people with no roofs over their heads. Overall, the number of people taking refuge at homeless shelters on Oahu has grown steadily, reaching 5,311 in the last year, up from 3,857 in 2005, according to the Center on the Family at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. But Honolulu's street population shot up even faster.

02/12/2010 Opinion: Anchorage Housing First Project Deserves a Chance Anchorage, Alaska | News Publisher: Anchorage Daily News Author: Julia O'Malley

Housing first isn't going to be a cure for all Anchorage's problems with alcohol. And it's not rehab for the people who live there. But studies show when you take chronic alcoholics off the streets, they drink less, and that means fewer visits to emergency rooms, the sleep-off center and jail. That saves a lot of public money.

 

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