From the National League of Cities’ CitiesSpeak blog – March 8, 2019
This is a guest blog by Melissa Young, director of Heartland Alliance’s National Initiatives on Poverty & Economic Opportunity.
Housing and income are inextricably linked. Research and conversations with people with lived experience of homelessness tells us that people experiencing homelessness can, do, and want to work. Homelessness persists, in part, because public systems fail to support all people in equitably obtaining the employment and income necessary for long term housing stability.
Ending homelessness then requires that we double-down in cities across the country to address the employment and income needs of individuals and families experiencing homelessness and housing instability.
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