“When there are no options for someone to stay in a hotel or shelter,” Delaney says, “they are given a tent and driven to an encampment because there is nowhere else to go.”
To create effective solutions, Hood says, “community-based organizations have to be part of the conversation, research, government, and client voices. If all members are not at the table then it won’t work.”
In the recent past our society has allocated the problem of homelessness to the government. But just like any other institution, there are limits to what they can provide.
“Most people think they have nothing in common with a homeless person, … Any way that we can build a bridge, to see that we have more in common than we have difference.”
