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Learn More About Making Homelessness Invisible
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Current policies do one thing, and they do that well: attempt to make homelessness invisible.
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Learn More about “In My Place”
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In My Place airs live on This Is Nashville, and you can catch it most likely on the last Tuesday of each month on WPLN 90.3 FM.
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Learn More About Community Organizing
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Federal edicts and missiles over these past couple of weeks have created chaos among nonprofit organizations, state and local agencies and others who are focused on serving people who struggle to make ends meet. Among some of the confusion created by the White House was the threat of halting a large portion of federal grant funding that Congress has allocated for agencies serving some of the most vulnerable populations in our nation. It remains unclear what direction the federal government intends to take next. Add all the uncertainty from the federal level with the Tennessee’s legislature’s approach to target marginalized populations and those who offer support, no wonder that fears and tensions run high. The question becomes, what can we do after an election that reinstated representation we have at the state and the federal government?
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Learn More About Rural Homelessness
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Cheatham County is participating in the outdoor homelessness count for the first time this year, and as I worked with a team to administer it, it occurred to me how many states and cities, including Tennessee and Nashville, still underestimate the impact of rural homelessness on urban centers. A lack of affordable housing and a lack of income are the main causes for people losing their housing. This fact is true for urban as well as rural communities. Yet, homelessness often is hidden in rural areas where people tend to live in dilapidated housing with a combination of holes in roofs, walls or floors, no running water or no electricity. People also stay in abandoned homes, in campers, in cars or deeply hidden in wooded areas.
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Q&A with Erica Mitchell
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How the New CEO of the United Way of Greater Nashville Plans To Build Community
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Learn More About the National Increase in Homelessness
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More than 770,000 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2024. That is the highest estimated number of homelessness The United States has ever recorded.
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Learn More about Partners in Care
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Partners in Care is a co-responder program between the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) and the Mental Health Cooperative that serves to divert people who experience a mental health crisis from the criminal justice system.
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Column: Learn More About Unauthorized Camping on Public Property
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Last month, Tennessee arrested 10 unhoused people in Downtown Nashville for unauthorized camping.
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Column: Learn More About Metro’s Gap Housing Fiasco
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The Office of Homeless Services (OHS) recently revealed to the Metro Council in a public meeting that they have been keeping 70-80 gap housing units open because a specific facility, currently run by The Salvation Army, is set aside for encampment closures.