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The tide in homelessness has been turning in 2025 at the national level, after a 40 percent increase in national Point-in-Time (PIT) homelessness counts between 2016 and 2024. Nashville, however, has not been able to turn their upward trajectory around just yet.
Alaina Boyer is the senior Director of programs at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, which is headquartered here in Nashville.
“A good testament to us working well together is that I always think she’s doing all the hard stuff and I’m doing all the easy stuff, and I think she thinks the opposite,”
Ensign currently serves as the Housing Policy Manager working in Metro’s Housing Division, which is part of the Planning Department.
Ultimately, the ones who suffer and lose in the midst of these clashes over policy matters are the people who are trying to survive on the streets and in shelters.
Olivia Messina represents young community leaders in Nashville who get the job done.
Over the past few weeks, there have been some relevant homelessness updates in Nashville.
Kathy Sinback is a local attorney known for her nonpartisan leadership and involvement in major reform efforts at the local and state levels.
How Childhood Homelessness Impacts a Person and Community for Life
Midori Lockett, the Chief Community Impact Officer for Community Relations at Vanderbilt University, has spent the past decade collaborating with the nonprofit sector in Nashville.