Solving homelessness with Built for Zero

Homelessness is a big and complex problem - but it is not one too big or complex to be solved.
And while it affects those who experience it in the deepest way, it affects less than 1% of the population. Communities can build systems that continually eliminate it, and ensure everyone has a place to call home and live with dignity.
We can take steps together, toward a future where homelessness being rare and brief is the norm, not the exception.
Across the country, communities in Built for Zero are proving that homelessness is solvable. Is your community a part of it?
www.builtforzero.org
We are grateful for the Tableau Foundation and its partnership in the Built for Zero movement.

[@meviosmedia6371]

It is not just one zipcode’s problem. We must all have micro communities within our communities to spread awareness , educate and share the resources (cost). Data helps , the right data is essential.

[@hianimeguy8788]

This video helped me with school

[@smallbizsanantonio302]

We have incredible programs for homelessness in San Antonio with Outreach Workers who coordinate with the various organizations that can help them get into housing with wrap-around services. The issue we are facing in my downtown, historic, residential neighborhood, however, is that we have some chronically homeless gentlemen who refuse help because of their drug addictions. They live in burned down vacant houses which sometimes catch fire, and then they live outside in the yard etc. Do you have a video that shows how to solve this type of homelessness?

[@LC-sc3en]

I think if you have managed to make homelessness rare and brief for everyone but the handful of people you've actually had quite a success story. I honestly didn't know San Antonio was at that point yet. But I think when the video says you know the people experiencing homelessness and their needs it does include knowing people who are suffering from addiction and try to insist on camping in dangerous places. Knowing them might be able to identify whether or not they need to be placed in involuntary psychiatric care or a special system or place to live where they will feel comfortable and safe. What are the old burnt houses offering them that the services are not currently able to? Honestly if they are a safety hazard to themselves and others, perhaps just getting them into private housing and a safe area where they can continue to use but also be gently monitored to make sure they don't accidentally die or light themselves on fire might be the best way to go about that. Who knows? Probably the people who know them and are more well versed in the subject matter.
Either way congrats to San Antonio for fixing homelessness for all but a few people! .... oh wait... I just checked... San Antonio seems to have not done that yet. Well congrats on taking steps towards that perhaps using an approach as mentioned in this video even though it might not necessarily be perfect but does seem to work for a large majority of people?