A Micah guest stood before a church congregation several weeks ago and shared her story. What they saw was a confident middle-aged woman who had been through a great deal in recent years. Although it was clear she had overcome challenges, those in the room could never...
There was so much snow that people couldn’t walk on the sidewalks without it swallowing their knee caps. Cars rumbled over the iced city streets as if they were four-wheeling on a back road in the country. Schools closed for almost two weeks; and most people...
For nine years, Kyle floated in the shelter system. A mere $800 or so a month from social security just didn’t cut it in the local housing market, where rent on even an efficiency can reach as high as $1,176. By 2012, homeless service providers could almost...
My parents and I spent a recent weekend out of town. It was the first time we had stayed in a in a motel room with my almost two-year old son. At home, it is not unusual for him to run laps around the couch, turn cabinets upside down in mere seconds, and beg...
In historic homeless service models, people become homeless, go to shelter, and “if they do what they are told,” they will stabilize their lives enough that they will earn their way into housing. Since 2008, there has been a nationwide effort to implement a new way of...
