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Our History

Cecilia Blanford — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:58:39 +0000

Our History

OUR HISTORY

Because of an un-silenced voice, House the Homeless leadership – largely Richard R. Troxell – sees and is able to communicate the problem and potential solutions as free-agents. As a grassroots organization that accepts no government funding, our voice has always been loud and clear, whatever the consequences. On the contrary, others feeling job vulnerabilities may not be in a position to be as vocal. One example includes our campaign to oppose the “quality of life” ordinances that criminalize homelessness and restrict people’s civil rights. In 2008, when others worked to pass the “no camping” ordinance, House the Homeless bought a full-page Sunday ad in the Austin American Statesman, showing the cost of jailing vs. job training. We framed the issue so people could understand the moral and economic concerns. Sadly, the City and the nation are returning to those days when homelessness was, and is now AGAIN, criminalized.

Universal Living Wage / Livable Incomes Campaign is a national empowerment project, with adopters and advocates https://www.UniversalLivingWage.org. Conceived by Richard R. Troxell in the early 2000’s as a unique formula, devised to ensures that anyone working 40 hours in a week will be able to afford basic food, clothing, shelter, public transportation, and access to the emergency room. The U.S. Military and the federal government have both adopted our tenet of making their wages relate to the local cost of housing.

Over time, Richard R. Troxell broadened the Campaign to end economic homelessness by promoting “Livable Incomes” to address those who cannot work. Thus, our advocacy includes an increase to the federal Social Security disability stipend so that they too can afford basic housing, while continuing to promote the Universal Living Wage with its formula indexed on the cost of housing wherever that person lives.

HTH Highlights (Partial)

2024

– Blythe Plunkett is our 2024 President, doing a great job with Amplify Austin, the Memorial, and Planning the 2025 HUGSS event. Will Hyatt is our apostle of giving, working with dozens of individuals at any given time, to empower and equip; to pray with; to lift up and restore hope as HtH is Boots on the Ground. PJ Liles continues to be a force (of faith) as he brings the gift of music to HtH events and more. We also completed and are distributing the 18th edition of the HtH Plastic Pocket Resource Guide, designed by Richard R. Troxell.

2022, 2023.

Richard continues the ULW Campaign, including automating the Local Wages calculator (thanks to Bo@YanboSolutions.com), utilizing the formula devised by Richard that considers that anyone who works a 40-hour hour week should be able to afford the most basic of housing – indexed on
housing costs and more wherever that work is done. HtH Boots on the Ground continued to reach into camps and where we could find folks trying to survive.

2019, 2022.

HTH Statues dedicated! After a few years of raising funds, HtH placed life size bronze Homecoming Statues at Community First! Village in Austin, Texas (2019) and at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. (2022). The three piece statues stand as a memorial to the men, women, and children who die while homeless locally and across the United States. Designed by Richard R. Troxell and sculptured by artist Timothy P. Schmulz.

2020

– Not stopped by COVID, the 16th annual House the Homeless HUGSS Thermal distribution, occurred on New Year’s Eve with three entities set up to for their regular Thursday meal ministry: Central Presbyterian Church, Angel House, and Sunrise Church. Volunteers and staff from First Baptist Austin helped to fill nearly 400 new back packs with HUGSS purchased with donations to House the Homeless. HUGSS includes hats, under-thermals, gloves, scarves, socks – plus safety whistle, flashlights, poncho, bus passes and more! (In 2021, the event returned to First Baptist Church Austin).

– Also in 2020, Caritas, led by Jo Kathryn Quinn, Executive Director, presented our annual Homeless Memorial Service virtually. This followed Caritas’ coordination of the Memorial when Richard first moved from Austin in 2019.

2019

– Richard R. Troxell moved into a voting Board member role of National Education Director (NED) and as HtH’s representative to the National Coalition for the Homeless. Knowing that half of the homeless can work and half are disabled, Richard is actively promoting Livable Incomes: Universal Living Wages and changes in Social Security Disability Benefits. He and his wife, Sylvia, are now based in North Carolina nearer their daughter and young grandson. Richard continues to drive action in Austin and nationally through HtH and the National Homeless Coalition.

– We again engaged many in our “Days of Action” encouraging housing and livable incomes. Richard has for many years led our Tax Day action, replicating same at post offices around the nation. House the Homeless has historically incentivized participation nationally by contributing a camera, and in return, participants would return photos to us. P.J. Liles and Will Hyatt led our “Bridge the Economic Gap” action around Labor Day, ensuring a voice by those experiencing homelessness and displaying our banner over the 12th Street bridge, pointing to www.UniversalLivingWage.org. Other activities include Marching for Peace on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and with Veterans for Peace on Veterans’ Day.

– For the 25th year, HtH updated and printed a laminated, folded Plastic Pocket Resource Guide (18 printings with 10,000 distributed each time), thanks to sponsors, such as City of Austin Parks and Recreation, Austin/Travis County Integral Care, and others.

2015

– Designers, volunteering through Leap to Success, gave HtH a world class, interactive website: www.UniversalLivingWage.org.

– New House the Homeless Logo that includes the world’s cutest dog who promises to love our people unconditionally.

– Using art and education to humanize individuals experiencing homelessness, Timothy P. Schmalz –world renowned bronze sculptor, began sculpting The Home Coming statues in miniature – 250 purchased to leverage donations for the three-piece life size statues.

2013

– Mobile Loaves and Fishes got the final go-ahead for the RV Park that creates an entire community for our disabled homeless citizens. HTH is proud and honored to have played a small role -helping get those good folks the disability benefits for the next six years, to enable them to live there.

– HTH led the nation with our White Paper on the Prevention of Homelessness – a game-changing document, mailed to all members of the U.S. Congress, all 50 governors, select cabinet members, President Obama, and Mrs. Obama; then raised funds to mail to many mayors.

– Richard studied under sculptor Steve DuBois and sculpted “The Home Coming.” Subsequently, two world-renowned sculptors, seeing the sculpture story in the Austin American Statesman, have contacted us and offered their skills to sculpt our concept into full life-size statues … at reduced costs. This is separate and apart from all of our other programs.

2008-2009

Launched the release of a “Know Your Rights” guide prepared by Legal Aid for the Homeless (R. Troxell) and Texas C-Bar (both programs of TRLA) regarding laws affecting the homeless. Continuing wide-spread distribution throughout Austin Metropolitan Area.
Provided targeted financial assistance to homeless and working poor persons for identification documents (birth certificates, etc.) necessary to access social services; for mobility-impaired bus passes; and for other critical needs.
Initiated a collaboration with the Community Action Network, TX Homeless Network, Mobile Loaves and Fishes and Ending Community Homelessness Organization, for Troxell’s HtH-sponsored “Let’s Get to Work” Forum and Initiative creating a living wage work program (May 2009). It brought together three “Best Practices” groups, including Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, and a panel of local experts already doing employment programs and ready to create a “Pathway” for people experiencing homelessness whereby they would emerge as a workforce earning living wages.
Let’s get to Work secured support of Austin Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Austin Alliance, Seton Family of Hospitals, TX Dept of Child Protective Services and many more.
Developed and conducted a survey that revealed 90 percent of Austin’s homeless would work a full 40-hour week if it provided them food, clothing and shelter (including utilities); i.e., a living wage. Findings widely distributed

Survey Links Brain Injury to Medical Causes of Homelessness

Cecilia Blanford — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 05:06:43 +0000

Survey Links Brain Injury to Medical Causes of Homelessness

http://www.brainline.org/content/2009/06/tbi-basics_pageall.html

House the Homeless Survey Links Traumatic Brain Injury to Homelessness! –TBI Survey Report 2016

Cecilia Blanford — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 05:04:34 +0000

Education

Cecilia Blanford — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:47:09 +0000

Education

House the Homeless seeks to educate individuals, organizations, businesses, unions, churches, policy makers, and others about the needs and interests of persons experiencing homelessness as well as provide plausible solutions and shedding light on the many myths about homelessness.

Our Unhoused Neighbors Speak: Annual HtH Surveys

Read about “The Home Coming” Bronze Statues

Education Category

Dedication/Blessing ceremony at the Basicilica

Oct 24, 2024 | Advocacy, Bronze Sculptures, Bronze Sculptures, Education - a2024

Watch the video from the Dedication/Blessing ceremony at the Basicilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. held on October 1, 2022. Click here to download PDF

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Let’s Get to Work

Cecilia Blanford — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:46:02 +0000

Let’s Get to Work

A Multi-Organizational Work Collaborative of Businesses, Faith-Based Organizations and Nonprofits in the City of Austin, TX. A 20 person model.

There are many individuals, our neighbors, who for various reasons (many economic) find themselves experiencing homelessness. Many of these individuals welcome any opportunity to learn new skills, attain work and earn a self-supporting wage. Traditional avenues of job training and placement are overwhelmed with the current demand for their assistance serving only one in ten applicants at best. The Texas Work Force Commission readily acknowledges that it can only begin to serve the most prepared and capable job seekers. The “Let’s Get to Work Initiative” wishes to address the wasted human potential evidenced by our burgeoning shelters and people standing on our street corners asking for help and work. Statistical surveys conducted by the City of Houston, the City of Austin and two by the House The Homeless organization, all indicate a high desire to work by this population and to work at jobs that pay fair, living wages. We recognize that these individuals are the least qualified and the least capable of entering a traditional re-entry work program. This is a special population with special needs.

The current response to homelessness is to house people temporarily in shelters and then move them into “transitional housing” where they are provided a case worker whose job it is to stabilize their condition, help them attain their independence, and return them to the regular housing and work market. Unfortunately, the Federal Minimum Wage (currently at $7.25 per hour) will not afford them basic rental housing and so they are unable to “transition out.” Compounding the problem; there has been a tremendous resistance by neighborhoods to the creation and placement of any transitional housing. The result has been a Continuum of Care system that is incapable of serving the very purpose for which it was intended.

The “Let’s Get to Work Initiative” is intended to solve these problems. After assessing skill levels, applicants in shelters and in transitional living situations are offered an opportunity to earn a work certificate in about 20 areas of employment (i.e. solar panel installer or phlebotomist, etc.). By coordinating with local employers, certificate earners and other system graduates, working through a Program Coordinator, are placed in a job. Because the expected level of earning will be at, or just above the minimum wage level, a wage subsidy will be provided the individual. This will raise their wage to a Living Wage. Program supports will continue up to 18 months or until full self-sufficiency/ economic stability is achieved.

COMMUNITY SPONSORSHIP

This problem is being played out in Austin and cities all across America. The problem of homelessness requires that all community members become community partners. This involves community activists, businesses and faith based organizations. Just as important as it is for businesses to partner with us and employ folks with long work layoffs, we need members of our faith-based community to involve their congregations. We envision this to be a somewhat costly, long term investment to end homelessness for individuals. We are seeking a personalized and individualized relationship between one Program Participant, the Program Manager and a Community Sponsoring Organization. In this scenario, we see a one-on-one relationship where all three entities share their stories, their hopes, their fears and their progress along the way.

LET’S GET TO WORK INITIATIVE

BUDGET

20 Person Model

COSTS:

Program Manager $35,000 add $5,000 admin costs=$40,000.

Living Wage Supports (Difference between the FMW and the Universal Living Wage) $982 per month

Transitional Housing Costs: $1800. per person-one time cost (deposit, 1st and last month’s rent

Misc.: One time cost per Individual: $200.00 i.e. steel toed shoes, hard hat, etc.

Education: $54 per credit hour i.e. $2000 to become Fire fighter

Preparedness Training for Workers: ie Literacy, job applications, resume prep, budgeting etc.

IN KIND SAVINGS:

Housing

Case Management

PROGRAM BENEFITS:

Ends Economic Homelessness for each success story

Creates a Ready, Willing, Able and Stable Work Force

Involves the Business Community of Austin in the solution of ending homelessness

Strategically connects the Faith Based Community with those in need in their community

Frees bollixed up valuable transitional housing

Completes the COA Continuum of Care process

Provides opportunity, a pathway, and hope, for people experiencing homelessness

Wall of Workers

The best way to describe the Wall of Workers is hope. They are young men and women who for multiple reasons, be it relationships, health or economic concerns. have been knocked off course in their lives.

Homelessness is a vicious downward spiral that like the proverbial straw can crush a man or woman and end up consuming a person’s entire life. The Wall of Workers are regular folks who have experienced the worst that life has to offer but have now committed themselves to reinvesting themselves in life’s struggles. With the help of other individuals and committed service organizations they have picked up the pieces of their lives and taken a stand. They now declare themselves to be willing and able to re-engage themselves in work and the best that life has to offer. They see the Let’s Get to Work Initiative as their pathway of hope.

DONATE

Or, please send a check payable to House the Homeless, Inc to:

House the Homeless
P.O. Box 2312
Austin, TX 78768

Thank you for your never ending support for the folks living on our streets.

Together we can end homelessness.

Richard Troxell

Contact Us — please fill out the form to leave us a message.

Change.org Petition for Benches for the Homeless

Cecilia Blanford — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 16:46:54 +0000

Let’s get folks up off the sidewalk and their feet out of the gutter.

BENCHES can get our citizens up from the sidewalks and out of our gutters! Dignity & Fairness!!!! By signing, I call for enough benches for all!

Sign the Petition

Bench Survey

Surveys

Cecilia Blanford — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:31:22 +0000

Our Unhoused Neighbors Speak

— Annual House the Homeless Surveys

House the Homeless has conducted a number of surveys since 1989 to better support citizens experiencing homelessness. Click on the links below to read each.

2024 Work and Wages Survey Result

Coordinated Assessment for Housing Survey Report January 2018

2017 Police Survey

TBI Survey Report 2016

2015 Police Survey

HTH Sleep Survey 2011

HTH Health Survey 2010

HTH Work Survey 2008

HTH Visible Homeless Survey 1997

HTH Homeless Resource Center User Survey 1996

HTH Original Logo Survey Circa 1990

Brain Injury Awareness Month and People Outside

Pat Hartman — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 01:19:00 +0000

Richard R. Troxell, co-founder and President of House the Homeless, wrote an Amicus Brief having to do with fines levied on the homeless. In that document he cited a white paper that he also authored, using as one source the data gathered by the 2016 Traumatic Brain Injury Survey conducted by House the Homeless.

The number of head injuries, and the number of symptoms commonly associated with head injuries reported by people experiencing homelessness in Austin are astonishing. We are talking about “Parkinson’s Disease, chronic headaches, ongoing dizziness, memory problems, balance problems, ringing in ears, irritability, sleep problems, chronic pain, hearing loss, poor blood flow to brain, seeing and hearing problems, anxiety disorder, agitation, schizophrenia, depression, bell’s palsy, etc.”

And then, there is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE, which cannot be diagnosed when a person is alive, only via autopsy. This means it can’t be treated, either. But anger, frustration, and confusion appear to indicate its presence. Richard says,

[T]he condition of TBI and CTE seems to be exceptionally high within the population of people experiencing homelessness. In fact, this may be one of the leading causes of health-related homelessness in America…

Friend of HtH

Antisocial behavior alienates others, whether on the street or off. A lot of people experiencing homelessness, including many of America’s military veterans, are not in full control of their actions.

Dr. Mark L. Gordon has worked with many victims of traumatic brain injury and found that TBI is a causative factor for accelerated hormonal deficiencies, which increase the risk of a number of medically documented conditions. These patients may be prone to “learning disabilities, depression, anger outbursts, anxiety, mood swings, memory loss, inability to concentrate…,” and other symptoms that jeopardize a person’s ability to keep a life on track.

Dr. Gordon has shown that restoring the patient’s neuro-steroids and neuro-active steroids to their pre-injury level can restore the necessary homeostasis, even years after the initial injury.

Non-Alzheimers dementia

Finnish researchers studied people who had suffered a traumatic brain injury at age 65 or younger. They found that non-Alzheimers dementia risk was greater in patients who had experienced TBI than in the population as a whole. Perhaps not surprisingly, the more serious initial head injuries posed an even higher degree of risk.

The study’s lead author, Dr. Rahul Raj, told reporter Alan Mozes,

The study showed that 3.5 percent of persons with moderate-to-severe TBI [were] diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease later in life. This is substantially higher compared to age-matched peers with no history of brain injury.

Currently, it would be impossible to prove a direct cause-and-effect link between TBI and this type of dementia, but the usefulness of the knowledge is in minimizing other risk factors such as high cholesterol levels, diabetes, hypertension, tobacco use, and alcohol consumption. One difficulty is that a person with severe head trauma, a young soldier perhaps, could appear to be fully recovered, and even function adequately for decades, but still be in the demographic slice of people with an elevated risk of developing non-Alzheimers dementia.

The elders remember

One of the more familiar forms of teasing or ribbing that many Americans grew up with is the imputation of early head injury. If a person acts goofy or does something stupid, a friend might say, “Did you get dropped on your head when you were a baby?” Making that connection is a crude form of folk wisdom, probably originating from tribal elders with long memories. A person can experience TBI, seem to be okay for a big portion of life, and then turn up with dementia.

A lot of people who depend on shelters, or on no shelter at all, were punched in the head, struck with objects, violently shaken, damaged in car accidents, or even dropped on their heads as children. They seemingly recovered and went on to have normal lives, until at some point the past caught up, and things started to go haywire in the thinking department. For the healthy, housed citizen, it is an exercise in compassion to imagine an annoying, crazy-acting homeless person as a tiny, helpless baby, criminally abused by the grownups who were supposed to care.

Source: “Homeless Veterans in Action Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI- A Protocol to Help Disabled Homeless Veterans within a Secure, Nurturing Community,”
Source: “Survey Links Brain Injury to Medical Causes of Homelessness – Follow Up,” PRNewswire.com, 04/12/16
Source: “Severe Head Injury May Raise Dementia Risk Years Later,” ConsumerHealthDay, 07/05/17
Photo credit: Garry Knight on Visualhunt/CC BY

About the National Locality Wage (formerly Universal Living Wage)

Pat Hartman — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 01:36:00 +0000

We recommend The Universal Living Wage Whitepaper, the comprehensive guide to an idea whose time has come, written by House the Homeless co-founder Richard R. Troxell, which can be read online or downloaded. There is a lot to absorb, but the basic ideas are easily graspable.

Here is Richard’s recap of how he laid out the basic ideas to those present at a breakout session at the White House Summit on Working Families in the summer of 2014:

The National Locality Wage (formerly Universal Living Wage) uses existing government guidelines that ensure that if a person works 40 hours in a week (be it from one job or more), he or she would be able to afford basic food, clothing, shelter (including utilities), public transportation, and access to emergency rooms, wherever that work is done throughout the nation. This will end homelessness for over 1 million people, and prevent economic homelessness for all 20 million minimum-wage workers. It will stimulate the national housing economy, save billions in taxes, and stabilize small businesses across America.

The National Locality Wage (formerly Universal Living Wage) intends to adjust the federal minimum wage and index it to the local cost of housing in any area. When properly adjusted, the National Locality Wage (formerly Universal Living Wage) should ensure that anyone who works a 40-hour week can afford basic rental housing, and that means safe and decent as well as affordable.

Speakers at the exciting event included former President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Gloria Steinem. Amongst talk of paid paternity leave, flexible work hours, wage equality and comprehensive health care and child care, attendees were astonished to learn such gritty realities as the fact that in three states, the cost of child daycare had surpassed the cost of state college tuition.

Another Troxell contribution is the Open Letter to Barack Obama. Then, the curious reader might want to proceed to the National Locality Wage (formerly Universal Living Wage) website and focus on such details as the Wage Calculator.

We also recommend the past House the Homeless posts, like the one that discusses a strange and seemingly intractable paradox. The super-wealthy who run everything really don’t want anyone to pay the workers a living wage. On the one hand, they themselves have no intention of paying workers enough to live on. On the other hand, they certainly do not want the government involved in anything that resembles a guaranteed income, because the government can only acquire the funds to supply a guaranteed income by taxing the super-wealthy. That would be socialism, a word that scares them more than Satan.

They will stand for nothing that smacks of the redistribution of wealth, like for instance the program colloquially called “food stamps.” They need workers, but pay their workers so little they have no choice but to apply for food stamps. And then the super-rich who own everything cry and whine because they suspect that money is coming from their pockets — which there is very little chance of, since their expert lawyers will help avoid any taxation of either their giant corporations or their personal wealth. The people who own the factories and stores don’t want to pay their employees enough to live on — nor do they want to pay taxes that would filter the money through the government, and supply the employees enough to live on.

They reject both answers as unsatisfactory. To put it simply, they just plain don’t want workers to make enough to live on! At one point, McDonald’s added insult to injury by unveiling a plan that would help their employees budget their money properly. Just get a second job and apply for food stamps, and all will be well.

The plan allowed $600 per month for rent, which is laughable almost anywhere; nothing for heat; nothing for clothing. It allotted $20 a month for health care.

As just one example of the unreality, research commissioned by the American Diabetes Association showed how ridiculous that number is, especially for dependent child insulin users. For many people, the cost of insulin runs into the hundreds of dollars each month. In the most basic possible meaning of “trying to make a living,” people have actually died from attempting to nurse their insulin supplies, hoping to make them last longer.

The Home Coming Updates

Watch this space for news of The Home Coming, the sculpture whose figures represent several kinds of people experiencing homelessness — a veteran, a child, and an elderly woman of color. The fulfillment of years of dedicated work, The Home Coming is coming home to Austin soon!

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How People Give

Cecilia Blanford — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 02:07:00 +0000

People who have lost everything, and who sometimes are made to feel like they are nothing, need to be reminded that they are not stupid or helpless. People need to know they still have something to bring to the table, and the world is just a little bit better because they are in it. When advocating for people experiencing homelessness, an unquestionable best practice is to always elicit and promote the clientele’s involvement.

One person might address the crowd at the annual House the Homeless Memorial, and discover a talent for public speaking that opens a whole new life path. Another might have a skill set that makes the annual HUGGS event run smoother than it ever has before. Several band members are formerly homeless, including band leader PJ Liles, who co-chairs the House the Homeless (HtH) Board of Directors. Members of Austin’s homeless community contribute to the winter gear distribution party as greeters, hall guides, room monitors, custodial workers, and kitchen helpers.

If you want to know about homelessness in Austin, ask the experts. The HUGGS guests contribute to the general sum of useful knowledge by filling out a survey. Each year a crucial topic is explored — health; work; sleep; traumatic brain injury; interactions with the police. HtH President and co-founder Richard R. Troxell says:

From my interaction with people experiencing homelessness, we craft the annual survey theme and questions. Every time one of our participants completes a survey, they are charting the path that we then collectively take to prevent and end their homelessness — for example the Universal Living Wage.

Everybody wants their protest signs seen and their voices heard. Of course, people gather on Bridge Day and Tax Day to help get the message across. Richard says of House the Homeless,

Sixty percent of our Board of Directors has always been homeless or formerly homeless… So all of our efforts/projects are based on self empowerment of folks directly affected by homelessness. The struggle to end homelessness is led by homeless and formerly homeless people.

He says this with authority because he’s talking about himself, and Dear Reader. If you haven’t read his book yet, well, what are you waiting for? That’s Looking Up at the Bottom Line by Richard R. Troxell.

Besides being President and co-founder of House the Homeless Richard is also Director of Legal Aid for the Homeless, where he works closely with people who are disabled. He says, “Homeless folks helped us devise our fix for the SSI allotment program among many other programs through the years.” (The book can also be found here.)

Best practices

A procedure shown by experience to be correct is a “best practice.” Now, a bunch of questions and caveats can sprout from this. Once the decision is made, we have to forge ahead with a creative kind of cognitive dissonance. First, we must have 100 percent confidence in this move, because to do otherwise can doom it from the start. We have to believe it’s the best practice, or else what possible justification or motivation could there be for doing it?

And also, once the practice is established, and no matter how effective it turns out to be, it is vital to have a simultaneous mental reservation — to never forget that there might be an even better way to do the thing. To accept something as correct, and stop there, is to invite mental ossification, and eventual revolt. So to really stay on top of the moment, we need to believe two mutually exclusive things at the same time. That is what existential stress is all about.

For any situation there is an old saying, and one that fits here is, “There’s a first time for everything.” A methodology cannot become a best practice without having a trial run (or a hundred). How can anyone empirically know what is the most effective way to do a thing, if it has never been tried that way before? They can’t, which is why research data alone is sometimes enough to be deemed a best practice until something better comes along.

Vision

Leadership is an optimal combination of two mindsets: This Is Great, and This Could Be Better. Leadership includes the ability to administer an organization according to the rules and the best interests of the people it is meant to serve. It also encompasses the ability to think on one’s feet, look for the cracks in the opposition’s armor, and improvise, on the fly, what one hopes are best practices.

One of Richard’s fond memories is of the Kids for Kids’ Sake project. Children made drawings to express their feelings about the holidays. They were processed into packets of 12 holiday cards, and sold to raise $1,500, which was then contributed to the Salvation Army to create a play-scape for the children to be in, while their parents looked for work.

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Survey Links Brain Injury to Medical Causes of Homelessness

Survey Links Brain Injury to Medical Causes of Homelessness

House the Homeless Survey Links Traumatic Brain Injury to Homelessness! –TBI Survey Report 2016

Education

Education

Our Unhoused Neighbors Speak: Annual HtH Surveys

Read about “The Home Coming” Bronze Statues

Dedication/Blessing ceremony at the Basicilica

Let’s Get to Work

Let’s Get to Work

Wall of Workers

Contact Us — please fill out the form to leave us a message.

Change.org Petition for Benches for the Homeless

Let’s get folks up off the sidewalk and their feet out of the gutter.

Surveys

Our Unhoused Neighbors Speak

— Annual House the Homeless Surveys

House the Homeless has conducted a number of surveys since 1989 to better support citizens experiencing homelessness. Click on the links below to read each.

2024 Work and Wages Survey Result

Coordinated Assessment for Housing Survey Report January 2018

2017 Police Survey

TBI Survey Report 2016

2015 Police Survey

HTH Sleep Survey 2011

HTH Health Survey 2010

HTH Work Survey 2008

HTH Visible Homeless Survey 1997

HTH Homeless Resource Center User Survey 1996

HTH Original Logo Survey Circa 1990

Brain Injury Awareness Month and People Outside

Friend of HtH

Non-Alzheimers dementia

The elders remember

About the National Locality Wage (formerly Universal Living Wage)

The Home Coming Updates

How People Give

Best practices

Vision

The Statues are Coming!