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I also spend a great deal of my time at work with homeless populations. We do targeted outreach towards Veterans and homeless families in the Oklahoma City area. Overwhelmingly, the margin of error between paycheck to paycheck and homelessness is razor thin. One major medical expense with no paid sick leave, or a car breaking down with no emergency fund can easily lead to homelessness.
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So, we have a grant that helps put people back into permanent housing, but it's not as intuitive as you might think. Basically, you qualify through mental health issues where you get placed with a community mental health center that has housing services, or you are someone about to be evicted and you are trying to prevent that process. The grant for eviction takes into consideration your rent/income/expense ratio and actually turns down alot of people who have unsustainable rent situations. It's quite common to find someone who signs a lease that's 50-70% of their take home. At some point they get evicted, so they find themselves unable to find a new apartment who will work with them, and begin staying at motel/hotels week to week. Eventually, some sort of unexpected expense happens again (get sick no pto, car breaks down can't repair, ect) and lose their job. We've had pretty good success with veterans, because there's a federal grant backing that up along with nonprofit groups. Personally, I would say a single dad with kids, are basically the forgotten demographic for homeless services. Typically, shelters or transitional programs split men from women with kids (for safety reasons). So you will have: Single men shelter, Single women or women with kids shelter, youth shelters, "Family shelters" that just split them into the previous groups.
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May 9, 2017 19:26
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