Community Solutions, Inc.

🏡👏 🇬🇧 Congratulations to Brent Community, the first community in the UK to achieve the quality by-name data milestone for people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. #HomelessnessIsSolvable Learn about our international partners: https://bit.ly/462hhze

✨ Choosing compassion over criminalization.

After a decade of chronic homelessness, Ralph transitioned back into a life indoors, with support from his dedicated caseworker and the compassionate community of Fremont County, Colorado. Fremont is choosing compassion over criminalization, showing that even rural communities can make a big impact with limited resources. #HomelessnessIsSolvable 📽️ Watch the full video and see how Fremont is committed to helping neighbors in need. https://bit.ly/3zM9sS1

📢🧠🏡 Understanding the link between mental health and homelessness is crucial. Many people experiencing homelessness with mental illness face immense adversity and trauma. Understanding this is key to providing compassionate care. Many symptoms of mental illness are invisible, which introduces another set of challenges, such as identifying community mental health needs, helping individuals seek the mental health care they need, and supporting primary and secondary prevention of mental illness in the community. Learn more about the relationship between mental health and homelessness: https://bit.ly/45YY2GK

🏡 Ending homelessness is the result of hard work toward creating a new reality where homelessness remains rare and brief. When a community reaches functional zero for a specific population, it means they have fewer people experiencing homelessness than those accessing safe and stable, permanent housing. Learn more about functional zero → https://bit.ly/3RwO6yC #HomelessnessIsSolvable

🌍 ☀️ Climate change will disproportionately affect vulnerable populations in the U.S. who are at greater risk of experiencing homelessness. Social inequities will worsen in the aftermath of catastrophic weather events. For many people on the margins, extreme weather events due to climate change can be a tipping point into homelessness. Learn more about the connection between climate change and homelessness: https://bit.ly/3SECkCT #HomelessnessIsSolvable #homelessness #homeless #climatechange

Tyra Thomas knows firsthand what she describes as “the wear and tear on the soul and spirit and the body” caused by racism and homelessness. As the Housing Equity Strategist at Community Solutions, Tyra works to address inequities in housing among racial minorities, veterans, and other marginalized groups. We got the chance to speak to her about her work in the fight to solve homelessness. Read the full Q&A: https://bit.ly/3zxJa69

Homelessness is a reflection of failing systems, racism, and how society fails our most marginalized neighbors. When we end homelessness, it reflects our power to: ✅ Reimagine systems ✅ Realize racial justice ✅ Leave no one behind Learn more: https://bit.ly/3Y50Wbh #HomelessnessIsSolvable

SCOTUS has ruled. Now what?

🏡 Housing First is an approach that centers on the belief that everyone is ready for housing — right now. The theory is simple: People need basic necessities, like a safe place to live, before they can focus on other priorities like improving mental health, maintaining a budget, or searching for and maintaining employment. Watch an explainer: https://bit.ly/3zAmMsD #HomelessnessIsSolvable #HousingFirst