Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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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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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Progress in the Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest foundation team provided nearly $40 million in funding to support programs creating opportunities for all children to thrive in stable families, great schools, and strong communities. During the past year, we saw some great progress and incredible wins to help children and families thrive—everything from launching a new way to help homeless families, to winning millions of additional federal dollars for Washington students.

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Helping Homeless Youth Realize Their Boundless Promise

Working with the United Way of King County, Building Changes, the Raikes Foundation, and more than 100 other private and public partners -- including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, provider agencies and homeless youth – the Committee to End Homelessness adopted a blueprint last year called the Priority Action Steps to Prevent and End Youth and Young Adult Homelessness in King County.

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Creating 'The Big Tent' - Collaboration Key to Ending Homelessness

To solve a problem as complex as family homelessness we must find a way to build integrated knowledge into systems design and review, with new voices that challenge and question the status quo.

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