Communities Can Better Prevent Homelessness through Housing - and Justice-System Partnerships [housingmatters.urban.org]
By Emily Peiffer, Housing Matters, September 16, 2020 The pandemic’s devastating health and economic effects and the national reckoning around police brutality and systemic racism have highlighted pervasive inequities in communities across the US. A key issue lies directly at the intersection of those crises: homelessness. The nearly 570,000 people experiencing homelessness (PDF) on any given night, especially the 210,000 people forced to live outside, face greater risks of exposure to the...