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Harm Reduction and Supportive Housing in a Small Michigan City
The garage door is wide open. There’s a Bob Marley poster on the wall, a chessboard on the coffee table, two open cans of beer and a couple of worn leather couches. » Read more
KQED News Fix
California’s top judge is in favor of recommendations that the state eliminate its money bail system, which lets people accused of a crime pay to be released from jail as they await trial. Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye wants judges to have more information about a suspect’s history and likelihood to reoffend, and let them decide if the suspect is safe to be released or is a risk to public safety. Read the story at KQED News Fix.
Results-based ‘Social Impact Bonds’ Offer Funding Model Tying Profit to Success
For homelessness efforts in San Francisco and across the country, Nima Krodel is convinced that “business as usual” is not doing much to decrease the number of people on the streets. » Read more
Governments have been looking for an effective, cost-efficient way to house their homeless populations, especially the high-need individuals straining public resources while out on the streets. But many are hesitant to commit significant taxpayer money to the long-term interventions that service providers insist are necessary. » Read more
Bay Nature
A picture is emerging of where the North Bay fires burned: It’s a landscape of homes, farms and undeveloped lands with a range of habitats, including chaparral, grasslands, mixed woodlands and streams.
Data released by the Bay Area Open Space Council this week detail the acreage of land burned in Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties. According to the data, the fires passed over 75,000-acres of farmland in the two counties, with almost 4,000 of those acres supporting important agricultural crops, such as orchards and vineyards. Read the story at Bay Nature.
Every night, thousands of San Franciscans have no place to sleep. And yet, every night hundreds — possibly thousands — of single-room occupancy hotel units are left empty.
According to the latest count, 4,353 people were living unsheltered in our city. » Read more
6 Ideas for Getting More People Into Private SROs
Through master leasing of SROs, San Francisco has housed thousands of homeless people — and done so in hotels that are, by and large, a huge improvement over those of a generation ago. » Read more
How solutions-focused journalism can aid the dispossessed
Starting this fall, the Public Press is reporting on new and creative solutions to homelessness. And because we know we don’t have all the answers, we’re engaging the community to gather fresh ideas and inspire action. » Read more
EdSource
Debra Sanders has spent the past five years helping Sonoma County’s homeless students. Then, last week, she became homeless. Sanders, her husband and 11-year-old son lost their home in the fires that burned through the Wine Country. She and her family are now living with another family. Read the story at EdSource.
KQED News Fix/The California Report
Last week was the 25th anniversary of the East Bay Hills (or Tunnel) fire. The blistering conflagraton reached 2,000 degrees and was hot enough to boil asphalt, melt bronze and turn houses to ash almost instantly. Read the story at KQED News Fix/The California Report.