Stop Calling It Charity. Affordable Housing Is Infrastructure.
What if everything you think you know about homelessness is wrong? Forty to fifty percent of people experiencing homelessness in America are employed. They're working. They're contributing. And they still can't afford a place to live. That single fact dismantles most of the narratives we tell ourselves about who this crisis affects — and who's responsible for solving it. Jarrod Sanderson is the Executive Director of The Way Home, a Kansas City-based organization working at the connective layer between developers, funders, city systems, and community — not to run programs, but to redesign the…
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