Housing the homeless: the “traditional approach” versus “housing first” for grant writers

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We’ve been writing grant proposals for housing and supportive services for people experiencing homelessness (this is the PC phrase, but “homeless” is used in the rest of this post) since 1993, so we’ve been at it for long enough to see changing funder and client preferences around approaches come and go. For many reasons that are beyond the scope of this post, homelessness remains a growing and in some respects an intractable challenge in much of urban and rural America; essentially, homelessness is a housing shortage problem . Until we address housing abundance, we’re not going to be able to solve or substantially ameliorate homelessness as a problem. Click here to continue reading.