Greensboro Urban Ministry explores Housing First for families in Greensboro
posted: February 27, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: homeless news, housing first
From an email conversation with Mike Aiken, executive director of Greensboro Urban Ministry:
“GUM is exploring the feasibility of establishing a Housing First for Homeless Families to help with the long waiting list of families at Pathways… [and] looking for other agency partners as well. As we all know, we must work together to end homelessness.”*
This is exciting news and I hope that other providers and funders will step up and join Mike and his board and staff as they explore the possibility of doing Housing First for families in Greensboro. It’s very much needed and Mike has the vision and the heart to get this done. Go, Mike!
Mike pointed me to the video “Keys: Ending Family Homelessness” on the web site of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. Check it out.
Note: The video link doesn’t work for me in Firefox. Try this link for FF instead.
P.S. What is Housing First?
“Housing First is an approach to ending homelessness that centers on providing homeless people with housing quickly and then providing services as needed…” keep reading »
*Posted with permission from Mike Aiken.
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