To provide an integrated continuum of services to effectively support individuals experiencing homeless and housing insecurity we must develop a systems-level approach that enables us to to both finance and deliver services like medical respite, legal aid, eviction diversion, shelter diversion, housing navigation, and wraparound services. To get there, policy change must be coupled with innovative payment mechanisms that incentivize coordinated approaches to homeless services.
Read MoreLast week took me to Detroit, Michigan – a city I’d not visited prior to work on this initiative- and which I’m learning to love. Like many formerly thriving manufacturing hubs, Detroit has faced well-documented financial decline and disinvestment, with significant population loss and adversity in the last several decades.
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