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Housing Crisis Task Force – winding down, getting focused

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Apologies to Homeless Solutions Observers who did not get a notice of the meeting this month. It dropped off my list. We missed you if you didn’t get there. The meeting happened Weds May 21. There were interesting things that happened on this next-to-last meeting of this iteration of the task force. The group was small this time. Most of the developers were absent. I’m sure they had reasons, but its interesting that now as the work is shifting to actually helping people who need help several of them don’t seem to be interested anymore. There were presentations this time […]

How Congress Can REALLY Help Homelessness

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There are ways to end homelessness. But this budget has it all wrong. The National Alliance to End Homelessness has been working for years to address the problem effectively, and they present a real and comprehensive budget suggestion to move in the right direction.Take a look, and see what real solutions might look like: Grants-How-Congress-Can-Help-Solve-Homelessness You Can Help Big Time! Meals for homeless people through the Gateway ProjectThe crazy situation from Washington DC has us all unsettled. It’s not going to get better anytime soon. Omni Center’s Gateway Village is starting a new project to help 7hill Shelter provide meals […]

How Congress Can REALLY Help Homelessness

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There are ways to end homelessness. But this budget has it all wrong. The National Alliance to End Homelessness has been working for years to address the problem effectively, and they present a real and comprehensive budget suggestion to move in the right direction. Take a look, and see what real solutions might look like: Grants-How-Congress-Can-Help-Solve-Homelessness

Meals Project for homeless people through the Gateway Project

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You Can Help Big Time! Meals Project for homeless people through the Gateway Project The crazy situation from Washington DC has us all unsettled. It’s not going to get better for awhile. Omni Center’s Gateway Village Project is starting a new project to help 7hill Shelter provide meals to their homeless population in emergency situations where other meals fall through. You’ll be hearing more about this project soon. It’s called Gateway EMT – Emergency Meals Teams. You might want to join in.

Homeless Solutions meeting

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Thursday March 6 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center 3274 N. Lee Ave Fayetteville Homeless Solutions is made up of folks who want to see our city and our regional end homelessness. We meet the first Thursday of the month. Join us Thursday March 6 at 6:30 at Omni Center. This month we’ll be talking about a new activity from the Gateway Village Project. We have an invitation to work with them to help 7hills Homeless Shelter feed the people in its Day Center. It would be GREAT to have your help friends! Join us for the meeting and find […]

Homeless Solutions Meet-Up

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Thursday Feb 6 – 6:30 – Omni Center Thank you Homeless Solutions Folk for your faithful attendance at the Housing Crisis Task Force meetings over these several months! We know we’re making a dif! At the next meeting let’s discuss the last TF to update each other on what we’re seeing emerge. Where do we want to put our energy now? Who else do we need to connect with? Are there things we still need to learn? (very likely) If you’ve never been to a Homeless Solutions meeting before don’t let that stop you from joining us!

What the Mayor said to the Task Force

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Public meeting Jan 22 was enlightening! It’s been fascinating watching the Housing Crisis Task Force move from baffled citizens asking themselves (just like all of us are)  “what the heck’s going on with housing?” Slowly, as they interview area experts and talk to people all over town, what they’re revealing is a whole lot of different people in city government, the development community and a lot of related industries and agencies all doing their jobs to the very best of their ability, as they are safely tucked into their own narrow silo, with no effective way to know how their work is impacting […]

Homeless Solutions Invites You

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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 […]