Bridge housing can be the link between homelessness and a home
A bed isn’t a house and a house isn’t a home. And when a person experiencing homelessness leaves the streets, the streets don’t magically leave the person. Just ask“It takes a minute just to normalize,” said Dawson, the chief permanent housing officer for Friendship Place, a nonprofit working to end homelessness in the District.Living in a tent in a park is awful, but it allows a person some amount of control.
Some participants find the prospect of getting leased up “terrifying,” Dawson said. They worry: What happens if I fail? The residents aren’t the only ones learning. Dawson and her colleagues are learning, too. A lot of the Valley Place participants came from tent encampments that have become common in the city, she said. These may be unsightly reminders of our nation’s housing crisis, our mental health crisis, our income-inequality crisis, but to those who live in them, they’re something else: communities.
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