Giving Compass’ Take: • A video at Aljazeera explains how and why we should address the dangerous circumstances facing those experiencing homelessness during coronavirus. • What limitations do those experiencing…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • The authors highlight the need to ensure that domestic abuse survivors are safe during the COVID-19 pandemic and have access to safe housing after the pandemic. …
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Ellen Sahli and Maya Brennan give four strategies to help the success of the Eviction Crisis Act, which proposes creating or testing interventions to help keep families…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Jill Rosen draws connections between high water bills and ordinances, with a study showing how it can lead to landlords mistreating low-income tenants. • The study…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Climate resilience initiatives in Boston can potentially exacerbate existing inequalities by disproportionately protecting people that are not from low-income, marginalized communities. • How can donors ensure…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are five ways that communities can rapidly respond to the COVID-19 “housing apocalypse” that will help individuals navigate this potential housing crisis. • What are…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • In an excerpt from Dan Heath’s book Upstream, the author explains the “push for zero,” a strategy for change-makers to eliminate issues entirely, starting at the micro level.…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Juneteenth marks the celebration of freeing the last enslaved people in the United States. Still, the legacy of slavery and racism continues in America through poverty,…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • More data on homelessness indicates that individual homelessness is increasing, and the most significant subgroups of this category are transgender individuals, Asian and American Indians. •…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • Carlos Avenancio and Troup Howard expose how the United States’ property tax system creates disproportionately high rates for minority homeowners. • What can we do to…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • At Urban Institute, Benny Docter and Susan J.Popkin express the dilemma public housing authorities face in providing residents with proper services during COVID-19. • How might…
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Click here for more.According to the most recent Point-in-Time data analyzed in The State of Homelessness: 2020 Edition, 2016 began a trend in the number of individual adults experiencing homelessness, rising annually from that…