https://youtu.be/K5qbIZHDicw This video is a part of a series of interviews with members of the Partners in Housing organization in Indianapolis, Indiana, as they explain their ‘Housing First’ strategy in their approach to end homelessness. This is the final part of a conversation with Jennifer Green, Executive Director of Partners in Housing Indianapolis. For more information visit partnersinhousingindy.org/housing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Sl9UJ0qVA This video is a part of a series of interviews with members of the Partners in Housing organization in Indianapolis, Indiana, as they explain their ‘Housing First’ strategy in their approach to end homelessness. This is the fifth part of a conversation with Jennifer Green, Executive Director of Partners in Housing Indianapolis. For more information visit partnersinhousingindy.org/housing
https://youtu.be/zEBEA-fyi1E This video is a part of a series of interviews with members of the Partners in Housing organization in Indianapolis, Indiana, as they explain their ‘Housing First’ strategy in their approach to end homelessness. This is the fourth part of a conversation with Jennifer Green, Executive Director of Partners in Housing Indianapolis. For more information visit partnersinhousingindy.org/housing
https://youtu.be/HhydBbgXhr4 A conversation with Jennifer Green, Executive Director of Partners in Housing Indianapolis. For more information visit partnersinhousingindy.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSmcp6j4VaE This video is a part of a series of interviews with members of the Partners in Housing organization in Indianapolis, Indiana, as they explain their ‘Housing First’ strategy in their approach to end homelessness. This is a conversation with Jennifer Green, Executive Director of Partners in Housing Indianapolis.
The Fort Wayne Media Collaborative is pleased to announce its 2023 Local Candidate Forum, a nonpartisan discussion of ideas with candidates for Fort Wayne public office. This forum is a chance for members of the public to engage with candidates and discuss important issues facing our community ahead of the Nov. 7 general election. The 2023 Local Candidate Forum will focus mainly on healthy communities in Fort Wayne, with special attention to affordable housing. All candidates on the ballot seeking public office in the city of Fort Wayne in the November general election have been invited to participate. The event is free, and guests are encouraged to pre-register online athttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-local-candidate-forum-tickets-707863708407. About the Fort Wayne Media...
https://youtu.be/23VcasOaSOY This video is the first of a series of interviews with members of the Partners in Housing organization in Indianapolis, Indiana, as they explain their 'Housing First' strategy in their approach to end homelessness. This is a conversation with Jennifer Green, Executive Director of Partners in Housing Indianapolis.
“THE SOLUTION TO HOMELESSNESS IS HOUSING.” INDIANAPOLIS - Across the board, activists, social workers, academics, and others grappling with the national housing crisis agree that helping people experiencing homelessness find permanent housing is enormously challenging. But beginning in the early 1990s, communities across the country embraced a philosophy that came to be known as “Housing First,” and began providing permanent “supportive” housing with few or no barriers to entrance, while helping clients solve the complex problems that contributed to their homeless status in the first place. In 1993, Indianapolis banker Frank Hagaman recognized that the city was filled with abandoned buildings, while thousands of residents desperately needed safe, affordable housing. Drawing on his...
“Fair housing is all about taking the stigma out of affordable housing.” Sarah Smith, Chief Operating Officer of Fort Wayne Housing Authority (FWHA), spoke at the Fair Housing Summit in April about the Housing Choice Voucher Program. The housing authority’s efforts so far include: A total of 295 landlords participate in the voucher program. Their 2,600 affordable housing units house about 6,000 people. Over half of voucher beneficiaries are children (under age 17). This means that more than 3,000 kids benefit from housing vouchers in Fort Wayne. Adults make up 47% of voucher beneficiaries. However, the demand for affordable housing has grown. “We need more. We are doing great, but we need more.” Several factors contribute to this need. The national poverty rate averages...
FORT WAYNE — Sharon Tucker would love to work herself out of a job. As unlikely as that is, it doesn’t mean she stops trying. Since the fall of 2021, Tucker has been executive director at Vincent Village Inc., a campus in Fort Wayne’s Oxford neighborhood. Vincent Village includes a transitional homeless shelter and 34 rental homes scattered along the streets around the shelter, rented to residents on an affordable scale. From her warmly lit office, tucked into the basement of a former church on Holton Avenue, Tucker, who is also 6th District Fort Wayne City councilwoman, has had a front row seat to the real-world effects of inflation, rising rents and the affordable housing shortage. “When the tide rises, everything rises with it,” she said. “When the housing market was booming, that was...