{"id":27763,"date":"2023-08-10T04:33:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T04:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/homeless-individuals-access-to-shelter-affordable-housing-and-support-services\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T04:33:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T04:33:38","slug":"homeless-individuals-access-to-shelter-affordable-housing-and-support-services","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/homeless-individuals-access-to-shelter-affordable-housing-and-support-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless individuals: Access to shelter, affordable housing, and support services."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Hi Siddharth,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">This looks really great so far.&nbsp; I&#8217;m interested in your solution and agree that there have been housing-first success stories that could serve as models.&nbsp; I&#8217;m less clear on the details you have in mind when you talk about support services that address root causes.&nbsp; I know that one of the issues with this kind of approach is that it takes time and money and space to create the needed housing.&nbsp; Your point about long-term benefits and reductions in homelessness-related expenses outweighing initial investment could be an important piece of persuading an audience to get on board.&nbsp; I think it will also be important to consider what innovations could be involved in imagining your solutions.&nbsp; I wonder if you might find this article interesting as some useful background reading:<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">https:\/\/calmatters.org\/housing\/2023\/06\/austin-tiny-homes-california\/<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"margin: -1px -1px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">I think it&#8217;ll be important that you inform yourself as much as possible regarding what initiatives and efforts are already in effect and\/or in the midst of implementation before you settle into describing the solution you intend to propose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">I think it will be important to keep thinking about scope.&nbsp; Are you focused on working locally?&nbsp; At the state level?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Looking forward to seeing how this develops!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Siddharth, This looks really great so far.&nbsp; I&#8217;m interested in your solution and agree that there have been housing-first success stories that could serve as models.&nbsp; I&#8217;m less clear on the details you have in mind when you talk about support services that address root causes.&nbsp; I know that one of the issues with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[186],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/27763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/27763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=27763"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=27763"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=27763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}