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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: Governments can't solve homelessness alone
Description: On October 2, Helping Hands unveiled its latest transitional housing facility. After Wapato Jail collected dust for 14 years, Jordan Schnitzer bought the facility to create a homeless shelter. Allen Evans, someone who spent years battling homelessness, was eventually tapped to lead the effort. During months-long negotiations and media coverage, many public officials denounced the plan to house homeless people in what they still thought of as a jail. If a deal had not been made, the whole building would have been demolished.
All of their concerns were addressed by Helping Hands, the data-driven nonprofit organization that is now...