Built for Zero

17 March 2019, 10:05 AM

wtg

Built for Zero

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3 cities in the U.S. have ended chronic homelessness: Here’s how they did it

Nine more have ended veteran homelessness. It’s part of a national program called Built for Zero that uses a data-based approach to help officials figure out exactly who needs what services. Now it’s accelerating its work in 50 more cities.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90...eres-how-they-did-it

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Bazootiehead-in-training

17 March 2019, 10:21 AM

Steve Miller

Interesting work.

It looks to me like they focus on homeless veterans first, giving them a small-ish subset of homeless to work with and learn from. From there they use what they learn and apply it to the larger homeless community.

Let's hope it scales up.

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17 March 2019, 10:24 AM

Axtremus

Nice!

17 March 2019, 11:50 AM

pianojuggler

We desperately need that here. If Jeff Bezos would kick in a few mil to get it goi...

...oh, never mind.

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mod-in-training.

pj@ermosworld∙com

All types of erorrs fixed while you wait.

17 March 2019, 01:35 PM

Nina

Around here, at least, there is a huge problem with mental illness among the homeless. It's not clear to me that these individuals would ever be willing to accept housing. I can't tell from this article, but it appears that their target group are people who have requested housing assistance, not the homeless population at large. I could be wrong, though.

Still, I think it's a great idea and should be expanded to other places. It's also a nifty advert for Tableau (a very nice piece of software, that's sadly too $$ for my place of work).