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Heading Home urges coordinated crisis response as Monroe County braces for funding uncertainty
Summary
Heading Home told the County Council the region lacks affordable housing, landlord acceptance of vouchers and sufficient supportive services; a Lilly Endowment grant will fund outreach hires, a data dashboard and a basic-income pilot, but the group warned federal funding uncertainty could worsen homelessness.
Mary Morgan, executive director of Heading Home of South Central Indiana, told the Monroe County Council on Dec. 16 that homelessness in the region is fundamentally a housing problem and that the community lacks both affordable units and supportive services to keep people housed. “Homelessness is a housing problem,” Morgan said during a slide presentation to the council.
Heading Home outlined a regional approach (Region 10), partnerships with United Way and the Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County, and investments in data and staff. The nonprofit recently launched a dashboard pulling information from the regional homeless management information system to track inflows and outflows of people experiencing homelessness; Tatiana Wheeler, associate…
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