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Thursday Nov. 7 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center Things are getting exciting for Homeless Solutions folks. SEVERAL of us attended the Housing Crisis Task Force in October and heard from presenters and Task Force members how very hard it is to build low-income housing in our town. The presenter was Brandon Scalion, of Countdown Properties LLC. Brandon successfully built a development of low-income apartments in Clarksville with warm help from city officials, staff and other partners. He came to Fayetteville thinking he’d do that for us too. What a beautiful idea. But …. after 4 months of fighting city […]

Thurs October 3 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center It’s been a very active month and the Homeless Solutions gathering crept up on us. We will be meeting TOMORROW (the first Thursday of the month) 6:30 pm at Omni like we usually do.  At the Housing Task Force meeting in September Homeless Solutions had a great presence! Instead of three lonely HS reps, there were EIGHT of us, and 4 gave outstanding testimony about their views and their personal experiences of housing difficulties in Fayetteville. It was reassuring to know that the task force was attentively listening to our people speak their hearts. At the […]

Thursday Sept 5 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center Second part of our strategy sessions. Join the team to drill down on how we can make this city the real beacon on a hill that it wants to be!

Thursday Aug 1 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center Homeless Solutions is coming up on Thursday August 1.  It’s about time we of the Homeless Solutions Group have a heart-to-heart talk about what’s coming up for housing and homelessness in Fayetteivlle based on what we know right now. The Housing Task Force had it’s first meeting June 26. It was just a first meeting, but some good things came out of it we should talk about. We could have a real impact here. The next meeting is July 24. We may have ideas by then. Another thing is how the Fayetteville Housing Coalition […]

Where will unhoused people go now? We’ll see how much cruelty there may be in this nation. This article has excellent an backgrounder on the case, and homelessness in America. We can’t allow Northwest Arkansas to follow this trend, wherever it might lead.  “Designed to be Cruel”: How Grants Pass Will Ramp Up the Policing of Homelessness The Supreme Court blessed bans on sleeping outdoors. In a Bolts roundtable, three experts explain that this may encourage aggressive policing over long-term housing solutions.

Welcome to “The Post” Homelessness is COMPLEX.We’re all in this together. How can we operationalize that key progressive value? If we’re taking care of “the least of these” we can be confident that when we need help ourselves, the infrastructure to take care of us all will be right there waiting. Next Homeless Solutions meeting Talks that Matter Thursday May 2 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center Featuring Britin Bostick, Long Range Planner and Special Projects, City of Fayetteville The schedule changed a bit for this session of Homeless Solutions. We planned to have Dr. John Gallagher come share the results […]

From Linda Griffin at New Beginnings Hi, Omni Friends Meet Dr. Mike Bolding… New Beginnings Shelter is partnering with Washington Regional Medical Center to launch the first ever medical respite program for homeless people in Arkansas. Dr. Mike Bolding is a hospitalist at WRMC and sees first hand the challenges involved with caring for people without homes in Fayetteville. Dr. Bolding and his team of hospitalists and case managers will identify patients who need more time to recover, but the hospital is no longer an option for them. A Place to Heal will be that place. Any continuation of care that would […]