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The city has already reached "functional zero" for veterans and the chronically homeless. Next up: youth, families, and everyone else.

This article shows how the city of Rockford, Illinois is effectively dealing with homelessness. Its program is driven by real-time data, with a personal touch.

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NJCounts 2018 Finds Overall Homelessness Increases

#NJCounts 2018 found 9,303 #homeless men, women and children, in 6,982 households in NJ an increase of 771 persons or 9% - Homeless Numbers Reflect Evidence of #RacialDisparities in Homeless Population

NJCounts Four Year Trend Shows Decreases – Homeless Numbers Reflect Evidence of Racial Disparities in Homeless Population

NJCounts 2018 found 9,303 homeless men, women and children, in 6,982 households, across the state of New Jersey. This number increased by 771 persons (9%) from 2017. NJCounts 2018 counted individuals who were homeless on the night of January 23, 2018.

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Jenn, chronically homeless for years, is staying with a relative in Butte County and has been working as a gas station cashier for months. Way to go Jenn!

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In Push to Help Homeless, Some Feel Left Behind

In push to help #chronichomelessness & #VeteranHomelessness some feel left behind @_jessicamendoza @csmonitor

Veterans and chronically homeless populations receive priority On August 26, 2016, The Christian Science Monitor reported that “In accelerating push to help homeless, some feel left behind.” While the United States has made great progress in ending homelessness, there is concern that focusing specifically on ending veteran and chronically homeless leaves behind other homeless populations.…

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Homeless the Big Picture Part 1: Chronically Homeless

Triggers for homelessness: Becoming Homeless is often not as simple as loosing a job, or a catastrophic event. Underlying issues and disabilities are frequently primary, and secondary, causes of homelessness. It requires a disability to be classified as chronically homeless by Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Chronic Homelessness

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Los Angeles Battles Chronic Homelessness

'You start asking people you want a place to live, it's gonna clear out. You won't be seeing people sleeping on benches, you won't be seeing people carrying backpacks around all the time' - Anonymous Homeless Man -

HUD defines a Chronically Homeless person as: “ either (1) an unaccompanied homeless individual with a disabling condition who has been continuously homeless for a year or more, OR (2) an unaccompanied individual with a disabling condition who has had at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years.

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Widespread homelessness did not always exist. Prior to the 1980s the sight of people living in cars, churches, shelters, on the streets, or out in the woods was a distant memory of the Great Depression. After World War II, America had a housing market and system of public supports that allowed all but a handful of people to avoid homelessness. In most cities, there was plenty of affordable rental housing, including very inexpensive single room occupancy housing.

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Homelessness - The Full Picture

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