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Finding Home: lived‑experience survey finds people prefer apartments and need rent assistance, peer supports and diversified housing options
Summary
The Welcome Home Coalition presented Finding Home, a participatory report based on 429 surveys and community analysis, concluding people with lived experience overwhelmingly prefer apartments and need rent assistance and supportive services to remain housed.
The Welcome Home Coalition presented the Finding Home report to the Homelessness and Housing Committee on Nov. 4, sharing results from a participatory study of people with lived experience of homelessness and a set of policy recommendations informed by those voices.
Lauren Armani, Voices for Housing Justice training manager at Welcome Home Coalition, and Melissa Bishop, senior housing and facilities director at a peer organization, described a two‑and‑a‑half year, community‑based research process: a survey of 429 people conducted by outreach workers with lived experience, community analysis groups that reviewed preliminary results, and data‑walks at five day centers that gathered feedback from more than 215 additional participants.
Major findings: respondents ranked…
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