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Local advocate urges broader treatment, triage and housing-first plus wraparound supports to address homelessness in Reno
Summary
Grant Denton of the Climate Box Project described lived experience and outreach work, arguing that homelessness requires a coordinated, recovery-oriented system of care beyond emergency shelter. Board members and residents discussed affordable housing loss, senior homelessness and the limits of current systems.
Grant Denton, founder of the Climate Box Project and a person with lived experience of homelessness, told the Ward 3 advisory board about outreach, shelter and programmatic lessons from local and national practice on Jan. 6. Denton described historical drivers, distinctions between situational and behavioral homelessness, and the limits of singular solutions such as housing-first models without guaranteed wraparound services.
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