10 Questions about Helping Homeless Families in Your Community-
As Billions in Federal Assistance Roll Out, Who’s Thinking?
Unprecedented. In the three decades I’ve worked in the field of homelessness, I’ve never seen the outpouring of federal housing and homelessness resources that have been unleashed under the American Rescue Plan. I’m delighted!
The devastating impact of CoVid-19 combined with record-breaking homelessness, pre and post pandemic, makes the timing perfect. If implemented, not only will millions of people be rescued from thousands of dollars (each) of past due rent, but affordable housing will be created to begin to ease decades of reductions of public and private housing, greatly easing homelessness across the board.
Hold On a Moment!
But, as I read articles of how communities are implementing steps to get assistance to ravaged households and desperate houseless individuals and families, my cynical hackles have been bristling.
News accounts of gleeful local elected officials drooling over millions coming into their communities concerns me. Take Charlotte, NC, for example. They’ve been busy making plans for their millions of pandemic aid. According to the Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte leaders also plan to…
