Nifty plain-English blog post on this ever-engaging subject from Eric Barker, author of Plays Well with Others.
https://bakadesuyo.com/2022/11/epicurus/
Monday, November 21, 2022
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Ideas for using foundation wealth to end homelessness
From the Stanford Social Innovation Review: "If one-tenth of US charitable foundation wealth ($100 billion) was invested in housing, we could move 500,000 people, 86 percent of this nation’s unhoused population, off the street." There are a ton of interesting observations in this short piece and I'm curious what my friends in the sector think.
How to Solve Homelessness: Government and Philanthropy Unlocking Private Capital (ssir.org)
Also: It's tossed in almost as an aside, but I was fascinated by the contrast between L.A.'s Prop HHH to build housing (beset by delay and cost overrrun) vs. the speed of the state's Project Roomkey that just rents existing housing vs. the speed and efficiency of the state's Project Homekey that buys existing housing outright (generally old motels) and puts them under nonprofit management.
Excellent explainers for potential public-sector innovators
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