Updates from Down Under
Community Solutions, Inc.
We deploy innovative problem-solving tools towards creating a lasting end to homelessness that leaves no one behind.
Brisbane Zero reduced the average length of time a person experiences homelessness
This Australian community is focusing on permanent housing and by-name data to rapidly house its vulnerable neighbors
Brisbane is one of 30 communities working to end homelessness as part of Australia’s Advance to Zero Campaign. As part of Built for Zero international partner initiatives, Brisbane Zero has received coaching support regularly since 2017 and during that time, they’ve reduced the length of time a person experiences chronic homelessness, down 40% from when they started this work.
In the past, data from the census, conducted every five years, was the main source of information to estimate how many people were experiencing homelessness in the community. After early efforts to develop and act on person-centered data succeeded in housing more than 800 individuals and families, the team in Brisbane moved away from relying on census data and instead started collecting by-name data of all people sleeping rough ?(meaning they were experiencing unsheltered homelessness), in their community.
How did the Brisbane community achieve such a reduction in the length of time a person experienced rough sleeping? A focus on permanent housing, systems improvement and micro-managing the by-name data helped the team coordinate changes to the homeless response system to more rapidly house many of the community’s residents
“The whole purpose of by-name data is to house and support people,” explained Karyn Walsh, CEO of Micah Projects in Brisbane, Australia.
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The movement to end homelessness is greater than any single organization.?
That’s why we partner with international field catalysts to support communities beyond our immediate reach to achieve functional zero homelessness.?
By providing tools, design, strategy, and coaching support to these backbone organizations and regularly exchanging learnings, we’re strengthening the global movement to make homelessness rare and brief.
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Community Solutions acquired its third property in Jacksonville, Florida, dedicated to solving veteran homelessness.
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"By having a coordinated system and real-time, by-name data, [Jacksonville is] able to know exactly what is needed to solve veteran homelessness and these properties are one piece of that journey,” said Kally Canfield, Built for Zero? System Improvement Advisor for Jacksonville.
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