Medicine Hat, AB reduces homeless population with "housing first" strategy
Medicine Hat, AB Homelessness Reduction Strategy
Medicine Hat Community Housing Society and city officials provide housing without strings attached to homeless residents prior to other services. The goal for each intake is a 10-day turnaround from application to permanent housing. This approach allows individuals to receive services with dignity while reducing public spending on short-term solutions to homelessness.
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One City's Revolutionary Solution Has Basically Ended Homelessness — Here's How
Ted Clugston didn't believe homelessness could be ended. As a fiscally conservative member of the city council for Medicine Hat, a city of about 60,000 in Alberta, he scoffed at a proposal to provide housing to the city's homeless population. Still…
Medicine Hat said it eliminated homelessness in 2015. Here’s how the city is working to keep it that way | The Star
The successful housing program in this small Alberta city made international headlines, but workers know they’ve still got work to do to catch people ...
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