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David Wertheimer

Title Deputy Director, Pacific Northwest Initiative
Organization Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

David Wertheimer is a deputy director of the Pacific Northwest initiative at the foundation’s U.S. Program.

Posts By David Wertheimer

Thinking More Broadly About a Place to Call Home

We know that the way to end homelessness is to house everyone. Yet, ensuring everyone has a place to call home requires a housing supply that is affordable to all, regardless of their incomes. The simplicity of this argument seems well suited to a freshman college logic course. However, the reality is not that simple.

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900 Heads Are Better Than 1: Reflections on Collaboration Producing Results

What happens when you bring together more than 900 of the nation’s leading players in the work of ending family and youth homelessness from the non-profit, government, advocacy and philanthropic sectors? Remarkable things.

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Looking Ahead: A Vision for Ending Family Homelessness

At the Gates Foundation, we’re now entering the 14th year of our work in Washington State to reduce family homelessness. That may sound like a long time, but when dealing with a problem as complex and seemingly intractable as family homelessness, time is required to find and implement changes with the potential to have real impact.

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Lessons on Ending Homelessness From 200 Smart Thinkers

Ending Family Homelessness Requires Changes in the Ways We Do Business

Systems responsible for both social services and housing these familie s may receive are forging new partnerships across the thick walls of government silos that all too often inhibit effective collaboration.

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