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Cook County leans into a client-centered approach to make strides throughout the Covid crisis

Built for Zero equips cities to create an operating system for ending homelessness. Mayors from Mesa, Arizona, and Bakersfield, California, shared their communities’ journeys on the path to ending homelessness as part of Built for Zero.
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Built for Zero mayors discuss how their cities are ending homelessness

Our team believes this framework can empower communities working to end homelessness to ensure their systems aren’t leaving anyone behind. This framework is just one tool in the movement toward racial equity, driven by a growing coalition of organizations within the homeless sector.
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Equipping the homeless sector with racial equity tools

Rosanne Haggerty
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Video: Rosanne Haggerty on how to end homelessness

Homelessness is a mirror. It reflects our nation’s living history of racism.
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Video: Racism and homelessness

To change conditions around homelessness, we needed to invest in changing norms, policies, and public accountability.
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A New Paradigm for Ending Homelessness in the U.S., Together

The first step toward ending homelessness for good anywhere is building a community-wide data system accountable to a community-level aim to end all forms of homelessness.
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Gathering real-time data is the first step to ending homelessness

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The National Coalition for Housing Justice’s Letter to Congressional Leadership

A by-name list is a comprehensive list of every person in a community experiencing homelessness, updated in real-time.
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What is a by-name list?

Homeless street outreach. HUD requires an annual point-in-time count to measure homelessness. By-name lists provide a clearer picture of the state of homelessness.
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Yes, there’s a better way to measure homelessness than the annual point-in-time count

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A Look Back at 2020

On the shortest day of the year, communities come together to remember lives that are too often forgotten.
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Remembering the lives lost

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