Others have written and documented extensively about the pressing need for a turnkey solution for the homeless, caught in a vicious cycle of shelters, streets, and ER visits.
Outreach Village wants to help break the cycle.
The Night of the Unsheltered Homeless
Welcome to “The Night of the Unsheltered Homeless,” the 7th full-length documentary in the My Road Leads Home series of documentaries on homelessness in Spokane. This 83-minute film explores the lack of available and appropriate shelter beds for roughly half of the known and counted homeless population.
The Role of Emergency Shelter in a Crisis Response System
Watch the first of our Emergency Shelter webinar series on the effective role of shelter in a crisis response system. Emergency shelters play a critical role in ending homelessness. Effective shelters should embrace a Housing First approach, offer immediate and low-barrier access to anyone facing a housing crisis, and measure shelter performance in order to improve results.
Five people die on Salt Lake City streets, mayor takes emergency action
Five people experiencing homelessness have died on the streets in Salt Lake City over the last five frigid days. So, the mayor is taking emergency action. She’s helping to add nearly 100 beds to the system.
Cost of Crisis: A look at conditions in 'The Zone,' Phoenix’s largest homeless encampment
There are more people sleeping on the streets in the Phoenix Valley than there are shelter beds available.
Portland wants to move homeless camps to designated sites | Morning in America
The mayor of Portland plans to ban camping on city streets and move unhoused people to designated campsites, as the growing homeless population has become the top concern for the vast majority of residents.
Families in Southeast Portland say growing homeless camps have them afraid to leave the house
Tents, broken-down cars, piles of garbage and RVs line the streets off Southeast 80th and Powell in Portland, Oregon. It's a residential neighborhood turned nightmare for families who live there.
Seattle's Practical Village Model: Tiny Homes for Homeless
#TinyHomeVillages are helping to lift people out of the streets into practical, safe, and secure transitional housing. Seattle is experiencing a staggering homelessness crisis. Innovative affordable housing and transitional shelter solutions are needed, and that's where the Low Income Housing Institute comes in. In partnership with the city and other nonprofits, especially Nickelsville, they create micro shelter villages for individuals and families experiencing #homelessness.
Dignity Village in Portland: Tiny Houses for the Homeless
Brad Gibson had been homeless for years, going from low paying jobs to no job at all, when he connected with a group of highly organized homeless activists in Portland, OR. The group had banded together to demand the right to exist somewhere, in spite of a totally monetized, expensive consumer society that seems to chew up and spit out those who can’t make enough money to "exist".