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1Arctic-Stranger
I have been away for while, so maybe this subject has been covered elsewhere. If so, point me to the right direction.
I am no longer in Alaska. I am currently serving a downtown church in Medford, Oregon. We have a major issue with homelessness here, and i is growing.
We give away bag lunches to whoever wants one. Most of the recipients are unhoused. When we started we would give out about 20 a day. Now we are giving between 75 and 100 a day. Our food bank used to serve around 20 families a week. A big week was 40. Now a slow week is 60 families, and we have served as many as 107 per week. (Most our food bank guests are not unhoused.)
The problem just seems to be growing. We are not a big city. Are the rest of you seeing this increase? What creative ideas has your community done to help unhoused peoples?
I am no longer in Alaska. I am currently serving a downtown church in Medford, Oregon. We have a major issue with homelessness here, and i is growing.
We give away bag lunches to whoever wants one. Most of the recipients are unhoused. When we started we would give out about 20 a day. Now we are giving between 75 and 100 a day. Our food bank used to serve around 20 families a week. A big week was 40. Now a slow week is 60 families, and we have served as many as 107 per week. (Most our food bank guests are not unhoused.)
The problem just seems to be growing. We are not a big city. Are the rest of you seeing this increase? What creative ideas has your community done to help unhoused peoples?
2mikevail
You need the community to buy in. Has to be a group effort not just one church or agency. I'm on my cell and can't remember how to post links but try googling Built for Zero.
3margd
Housing First (Finland). Hanging coffees (Naples & beyond). A variant, pizza & blessings (Winnipeg):
Housing First: A permanent housing program for the chronically homeless
Mabel Kabani | 2019 Dec 03
With no strings, rules or conditions, the Housing First model aims to address homelessness by focusing on core issue of providing shelter...
...President Trump's Council of Economic Advisers...release(d) a "State of Homelessness in America" plan in September. The federal initiative suggests beating systemic homelessness through heavy policing, market-rate housing and attaching strings and preconditions to government-funded aid, policies that organizations like the National Alliance to End Homelessness call punitive. The alliance instead supports Housing First, (a) program, created in New York by psychologist Dr. Sam Tsemberis in the 90's, insists that housing is the only solution to homelessness.
...Tsemberis explains that Housing First combats other "rewards based" housing models, and that it was founded with the belief that housing is a human right. Equally important is "client based" support, a flexible and consumer-driven way to help people with mental health or substance abuse problems. "Mental health and addictions are relapsing life-long conditions, so when housing is tied to your recovery which is unstable, it's like saying some people can never be housed"
The program has also been shown to have economic incentives for municipalities, proposing that permanent housing for the chronic homeless is more cost effective than paying for their hospital visits, jail time or array of expensive services.
...many countries with low rates of homelessness heavily implement Housing First to tackle the problem.
Finland has fewer than 300 homeless people on the street, according to the most recent data provided by the Y-Foundation, and Juha Kaakinen, CEO of the Y-Foundation, a key developer of housing in Finland*, believes that in eight years the problem will be completely eradicated through solid partnerships between government and municipalities, and by applying Housing First.
..."Everyone wants the vulnerable in society to be like car washes; you go through a quick program all messed up and come out squeaky clean and if you can't do that, there's something wrong with you," ( Downtown Emergency Services Center in Seattle (DESC), Daniel Malone ) said. "That's just not how it works: people deserve time and investment, they deserve something as simple as permanent housing so they can start living."...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/housing-first-a-permanent-housing-program-for-the-c...
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* 'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness
When Europe gets it right
Jon Henley | 3 Jun 2019
Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is falling. Its secret? Giving people homes as soon as they need them – unconditionally...
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle-helsinkis-radical-s...
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Daniel Thew | December 5 at 12:52 PM
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🗣 There was a little coffee shop, where two people arrive and approach the counter.
"Five coffees ☕️please. Two for us and three hanging.” They paid, they took their two coffees and left.
I asked the waiter. "What’s this about hanging coffees?"
"Wait and you'll see."
Some more people came in.
Two girls asked for a coffee each, they paid & left.
The following order was for seven coffees and it was made by three women - ‘three for them and four hanging coffees.’
I was left wondering...what is the meaning of the hanging coffees, they leave.
Suddenly, a man dressed in worn clothes, who looks like he might be homeless, arrives at the counter and asks sincerely.
" Do you have a coffee hanging?"
“Yes we do sir”
They serve him a coffee.... I got my answer on these famous " HANGING COFFEES"
People pay in advance for a coffee that will be served to whoever can't afford a hot drink.
This tradition started in Naples. Amazingly it’s spread throughout the worlds cities and towns.
It’s also possible to order not only "hanging coffees" but also a sandwich or a full low cost meal.
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'They want to bless each other': New Winnipeg pizzeria lets customers donate a slice to others in need
CBC News | Jun 06, 2019
Vikas Sanger (immigrant from India) started Pay It Forward program at SFC Pizzeria after customers came in without money to buy food
...customers with the means have the option to donate a dollar and write a message on a sticky note, which they stick to a wall under a "pay it forward" sign.
When somebody comes in who needs something to eat, they can grab a sticky note from the wall and redeem it, either for a slice of pizza or anything else in the store.
Already, the wall has filled up with notes carrying sweet messages of support: "May you find some magic in today," "You are light and happiness," and "Have a very pepperoni day."
"Somebody comes and they take the sticky note … they can choose which blessing they need," Sanger said.
"What else you want as an owner, or as a person, or as a human, to see a smile on someone's face because of you, or because of your donating customers?"...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-pay-it-forward-pizza-1.5164382
Housing First: A permanent housing program for the chronically homeless
Mabel Kabani | 2019 Dec 03
With no strings, rules or conditions, the Housing First model aims to address homelessness by focusing on core issue of providing shelter...
...President Trump's Council of Economic Advisers...release(d) a "State of Homelessness in America" plan in September. The federal initiative suggests beating systemic homelessness through heavy policing, market-rate housing and attaching strings and preconditions to government-funded aid, policies that organizations like the National Alliance to End Homelessness call punitive. The alliance instead supports Housing First, (a) program, created in New York by psychologist Dr. Sam Tsemberis in the 90's, insists that housing is the only solution to homelessness.
...Tsemberis explains that Housing First combats other "rewards based" housing models, and that it was founded with the belief that housing is a human right. Equally important is "client based" support, a flexible and consumer-driven way to help people with mental health or substance abuse problems. "Mental health and addictions are relapsing life-long conditions, so when housing is tied to your recovery which is unstable, it's like saying some people can never be housed"
The program has also been shown to have economic incentives for municipalities, proposing that permanent housing for the chronic homeless is more cost effective than paying for their hospital visits, jail time or array of expensive services.
...many countries with low rates of homelessness heavily implement Housing First to tackle the problem.
Finland has fewer than 300 homeless people on the street, according to the most recent data provided by the Y-Foundation, and Juha Kaakinen, CEO of the Y-Foundation, a key developer of housing in Finland*, believes that in eight years the problem will be completely eradicated through solid partnerships between government and municipalities, and by applying Housing First.
..."Everyone wants the vulnerable in society to be like car washes; you go through a quick program all messed up and come out squeaky clean and if you can't do that, there's something wrong with you," ( Downtown Emergency Services Center in Seattle (DESC), Daniel Malone ) said. "That's just not how it works: people deserve time and investment, they deserve something as simple as permanent housing so they can start living."...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/housing-first-a-permanent-housing-program-for-the-c...
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* 'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness
When Europe gets it right
Jon Henley | 3 Jun 2019
Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is falling. Its secret? Giving people homes as soon as they need them – unconditionally...
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle-helsinkis-radical-s...
___________________________________________________________
Daniel Thew | December 5 at 12:52 PM
🗣 There was a little coffee shop, where two people arrive and approach the counter.
"Five coffees ☕️please. Two for us and three hanging.” They paid, they took their two coffees and left.
I asked the waiter. "What’s this about hanging coffees?"
"Wait and you'll see."
Some more people came in.
Two girls asked for a coffee each, they paid & left.
The following order was for seven coffees and it was made by three women - ‘three for them and four hanging coffees.’
I was left wondering...what is the meaning of the hanging coffees, they leave.
Suddenly, a man dressed in worn clothes, who looks like he might be homeless, arrives at the counter and asks sincerely.
" Do you have a coffee hanging?"
“Yes we do sir”
They serve him a coffee.... I got my answer on these famous " HANGING COFFEES"
People pay in advance for a coffee that will be served to whoever can't afford a hot drink.
This tradition started in Naples. Amazingly it’s spread throughout the worlds cities and towns.
It’s also possible to order not only "hanging coffees" but also a sandwich or a full low cost meal.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'They want to bless each other': New Winnipeg pizzeria lets customers donate a slice to others in need
CBC News | Jun 06, 2019
Vikas Sanger (immigrant from India) started Pay It Forward program at SFC Pizzeria after customers came in without money to buy food
...customers with the means have the option to donate a dollar and write a message on a sticky note, which they stick to a wall under a "pay it forward" sign.
When somebody comes in who needs something to eat, they can grab a sticky note from the wall and redeem it, either for a slice of pizza or anything else in the store.
Already, the wall has filled up with notes carrying sweet messages of support: "May you find some magic in today," "You are light and happiness," and "Have a very pepperoni day."
"Somebody comes and they take the sticky note … they can choose which blessing they need," Sanger said.
"What else you want as an owner, or as a person, or as a human, to see a smile on someone's face because of you, or because of your donating customers?"...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-pay-it-forward-pizza-1.5164382
4John5918
Nearly 40 years ago I spent a couple of years working in a Catholic parish in an inner city area of London, with a large population of immigrant background. Homelessness was a big problem even then. We had a big presbytery (priests' house) and we used to let street people sleep in the waiting rooms and parlours downstairs. The front door was never locked - we had an "open house" policy. At one point a parishioner complained to the parish priest that it looked bad to have street people sleeping in the parish house. The priest's reply was, "Do you think it would look better if they found a body frozen to death on the church steps?" We also had a "breakfast club": whichever one of us was awake first in the morning would serve tea and sandwiches to however many street people turned up, usually a dozen or so. However the problem of homelessness was on a much larger scale, so the parish obtained a house a few streets away, first as a temporary night shelter for young men; later it became more permanent. The parish ran that shelter for many years and eventually handed it over to the local council. I don't know what has happened to it since. We had Mother Theresa's nuns in the parish and they provided temporary shelter for homeless women. At that time there was a very good free meal scheme at the Sikh temple (which I think at the time was the second largest in the world after Amritsar) where they served an excellent Indian lunch to all-comers.
There's now a new incarnation of the church-run shelter, which again started as a temporary shelter in a converted garage as part of a borough-wide winter night shelter scheme, followed by a more permanent winter night shelter about four years ago, which then became an all-year-round shelter. This one is a collaboration initially of several churches, now reduced I think to just two (Catholic and Anglican). I understand most of the residents are labour migrants. A friend of mine (who was a curate there back in my time) spent some time managing the new shelter and is now engaged in fund-raising. Not an easy task.
There's now a new incarnation of the church-run shelter, which again started as a temporary shelter in a converted garage as part of a borough-wide winter night shelter scheme, followed by a more permanent winter night shelter about four years ago, which then became an all-year-round shelter. This one is a collaboration initially of several churches, now reduced I think to just two (Catholic and Anglican). I understand most of the residents are labour migrants. A friend of mine (who was a curate there back in my time) spent some time managing the new shelter and is now engaged in fund-raising. Not an easy task.
5jburlinson
Our church has faced the problem of homelessness for many years, decades really. We're located just off the campus of a major US university (University of Texas), so there is a very large population of homeless youth in the neighborhood. We decided many years ago to dedicate our church to the special mission of homeless youth (up to age 28). We are the home of an organization called Street Youth Ministry. More info at https://www.facebook.com/streetyouthministry/ (facebook page).
There's a good video about SYM at https://deidox.org/austin/street-youth-clubhouse/
There's a good video about SYM at https://deidox.org/austin/street-youth-clubhouse/
6librorumamans
My understanding is that homelessness in Toronto has more than doubled in the past decade or so. One principal cause is the lack of affordable housing, rents having more than doubled over the period.
Twenty years ago the then Conservative provincial government simultaneously removed rent controls and cut social assistance. There have also been cuts over the years to mental health programs. Since the Conservatives are back in power and still proclaiming austerity, it's not likely that the situation will improve.
The City of Toronto reported 93 deaths of homeless people in calendar 2018, but 57 between January and the end of June in 2019.
Twenty years ago the then Conservative provincial government simultaneously removed rent controls and cut social assistance. There have also been cuts over the years to mental health programs. Since the Conservatives are back in power and still proclaiming austerity, it's not likely that the situation will improve.
The City of Toronto reported 93 deaths of homeless people in calendar 2018, but 57 between January and the end of June in 2019.
