An Overview of Homeless Encampments for City Leaders
An Overview of Homeless Encampments for City Leaders
Meant for slides created as handouts.
Housing First: HUD’s “Go To” Program
A pdf of the above image is available at https://friendsoftheunsheltered.org/wp-content/uploads/Housing-First-HUD.pdf. During the April 24, 2023 Seaside City Council meeting Rick Bowers shared this information during the 3-minute public comment period. Here is the link (opens in a new window): https://www.youtube.com/live/_StWI3xrj_Y?feature=share&t=4300. 3-Minute Speech Today I, Rick Bowers, would like to share some information about HUD’s “Go…
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the Relationship to Homelessness
A pdf of the above image is available at https://friendsoftheunsheltered.org/wp-content/uploads/ACE-Homelessness.pdf. During the March 13, 2023 Seaside City Council meeting Rick Bowers shared this information during the 3-minute public comment period. Here is the link to the meeting (opens in a new window): https://www.youtube.com/live/7tsqVsci1F0?feature=share&t=3972. 3-Minute Speech Over the past couple of meetings, I, Rick Bowers, have…
Apartment Affordability in Clatsop County
A pdf of the above image is available at https://friendsoftheunsheltered.org/wp-content/uploads/Rents-in-Clatsop-County.pdf. During the February 13, 2023 Seaside City Council meeting Rick Bowers described this slide during the public comment period. Here is the link (opens in new window): https://www.youtube.com/live/NXPp3l1Dv9c?&t=4519 2-Minute Speech I, Rick Bowers, want to share some information I tracked down that helped me to…
Humanitarian Crisis: We don’t have a homelessness problem, we have a humanitarian crisis
A pdf of the above image is available at https://friendsoftheunsheltered.org/wp-content/uploads/Humanitarian-Crisis.pdf. Notes The major point here is Oregon has been trying since at least 2008 to develop plans to end homelessness. They don’t work and are short lived. But we do know how to respond to humanitarian crisis (for example communities devastated by forest fires). In…