@cmtysolutions

We help communities act with speed, coordination, and accountability to visibly and measurably reduce homelessness.

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Last week at our 2026 Learning Session, Angel Drake from Maryland BoS Western gave us an important reminder: No one chooses to be homeless. Homelessness isn't a choice people should have to face. And helping people get back into housing is how we move forward. 👏
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The @homedepot Foundation just pledged to invest $1 BILLION by 2032 to support veterans, including efforts to expand access to safe, accessible housing. And this is why it matters: 🇺🇸 Nearly 33,000 veterans are experiencing homelessness on any given night. 🏠 More than 2.75 MILLION veterans live in inadequate housing. ❤️ Every veteran deserves a safe place to call home. This is the kind of commitment we LOVE to see! #CompletingTheMission Read more at USA Today: bit.ly/4i7Kh0g
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To celebrate 15 years of supporting veteran causes, The Home Depot Foundation is increasing our commitment to veterans and pledging to invest $1 billion by 2032. Learn more about this commitment and our partners at thd.co/celebrationofservice
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When communities make progress in reducing homelessness, telling that story matters just as much as sharing the numbers. Last week at the Community Solutions 2026 Built for Zero Learning Session, Jon Ewing from Denver Mayor's Office, Anise Vance from City of Durham, Mark Smith from Housing Solutions, and Penny Snyder from Clutch Consulting Group came together to explore how communities can build public trust by communicating openly about their efforts to reduce homelessness. The conversation focused on what polling tells us about public perceptions of homelessness and why sharing measurable progress, challenges and lessons learned is essential to building confidence in solutions that work. The takeaway? People want to see results. And when communities are making progress, we need to make sure the public knows about it. From fewer people living on the streets to more neighbors moving into housing, these are stories worth telling.
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Nearly half of all renters in the U.S. struggle to pay their rent. Yet, less than 1% of the federal budget is spent on housing and homelessness. It doesn’t add up. Fortunately, there’s a solution: prevention. In her new #TEDTalk, Destination: Home CEO Jennifer Loving makes the case for prevention and shares why @RightatHomeUSA comes at a critical moment. 📹: Right At Home
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Since 2024, Cleveland's "A Home for Every Neighbor" program has helped more than 225 people move into housing, reaching people living across 77 encampments. And here's what makes this approach different: Instead of just moving people from one location to another, the program helps them secure apartments, provides rent assistance and connects them with services to help them stay housed. Some participants can secure apartment leases in less than two weeks! It's a powerful reminder that when cities prioritize housing and work together, real progress is possible. 👏 Read more: bit.ly/3TUlDXI
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Some people wear their hearts on their sleeves... we wear our mission on our skin. 😭🏠❤️
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Big news out of Seattle! 🏠 @MayorofSeattle announced a new strategy to reduce homelessness, drawing on a framework developed by Community Solutions that has helped cities like Denver and Houston make meaningful progress. The approach focuses on bringing local organizations together, coordinating their efforts and helping more people move off the streets and into housing. Seattle has already put elements of this approach into action through its Streets to Housing pilot program in Pioneer Square, where local organizations worked together to connect people living outside with housing and shelter options. It's another example of how cities can move toward real, measurable reductions in homelessness by working together. We're excited to see Seattle take this next step! 👏 bit.ly/4yWwIGM
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This week, our president, Rosanne Haggerty, joined fellow MacArthur Fellows Dr. Regina Benjamin and Lisa Daugaard, alongside Seattle City Councilmember Dionne Foster and Seattle Social Housing Developer Interim CEO Tiffani McCoy, for an important conversation on the future of housing. Moderated by Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce CEO Joe Nguyen, Housing for All: The Missing Pieces brought together leaders to explore what's missing from our housing system, what we can learn from past solutions and how we can work together to make housing accessible to more people. Because making housing work for everyone takes collaboration, bold ideas and a shared commitment to real solutions.
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we're always in hehe mood 🙂
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A simple drawing showing two stick figures. The one on the left is holding a sign that says "Getting people off the streets" and carrying a coin, labeled "Hehe." The stick figure on the right has a frown and is labeled "Not Hehe.

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A simple drawing of two stick figures. The figure on the left holds a sign saying "House People Every Day" and has a smiling face with "Hehe" written below. The figure on the right has a frowning face with "Not Hehe" written below.

ALT A simple drawing of two stick figures. The figure on the left holds a sign saying "House People Every Day" and has a smiling face with "Hehe" written below. The figure on the right has a frowning face with "Not Hehe" written below.

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For Ray, a Marine Corps veteran and Washington, D.C., native, it means having his own apartment. Privacy. Good neighbors. People he can turn to when he needs help. And the freedom to spend his days doing the things he loves. Ray has called the Conway Residence home since 2017. These days, you might find him walking five to 10 miles around D.C., heading to 8 a.m. Mass, watching a Yankees game or listening to rock and soul music. “This is the best thing that ever happened to me in a long long time,” Ray says. “I like the privacy, and having my own apartment. It’s just enough for me.” A home can create the stability for someone to get back to simply living their life. Ray served our country. Today, he has a place to call his own and every veteran deserves the same. #CompletingTheMission Join our mission in ending veteran homelessness: completingthemission.org 🇺🇸
This image shows a person with a beard wearing a cap, alongside a text describing their journey from experiencing homelessness as a veteran to moving into The John and Jill Ker Conway Residence in Washington, D.C. The text begins with "This is Ray.

ALT This image shows a person with a beard wearing a cap, alongside a text describing their journey from experiencing homelessness as a veteran to moving into The John and Jill Ker Conway Residence in Washington, D.C. The text begins with "This is Ray.

Front view of the John and Jill Ker Conway Residence, a modern apartment building with large glass windows. Text indicates it opened in 2016 as a mixed-income residence with 124 units for veterans and low-income residents.

ALT Front view of the John and Jill Ker Conway Residence, a modern apartment building with large glass windows. Text indicates it opened in 2016 as a mixed-income residence with 124 units for veterans and low-income residents.

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The image contains a white background with blue text that reads: "Every person who has experienced homelessness has a name, a story, a passion." Below the text is the logo for "Completing the Mission: Community Solutions.

ALT The image contains a white background with blue text that reads: "Every person who has experienced homelessness has a name, a story, a passion." Below the text is the logo for "Completing the Mission: Community Solutions.

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More housing? In THIS economy? Yes, please. 🏠👏 Cities across the country are finding new ways to build more homes, and now those solutions are getting ready to go national. The way out of America's housing shortage runs through city hall. That's why @BloombergDotOrg is bringing the best of municipal innovation to the nation's building charge, moving the most effective local solutions from the places that pioneered them — Mayor Todd Gloria's The City of San Diego, Mayor Kirk Watson's City of Austin, and Mayor Andre Dickens' City of Atlanta, — to up to 30 more across the country. With Accelerator for America, and Public Digital, they will help mayors ready to lead deliver what residents need most: more homes. 🎥: Bloomberg Philanthropies Read: bit.ly/4i4UGIK
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We've come a long way in reducing veteran homelessness. And we're not stopping now. 🇺🇸🏠 Our own Adam Ruege, Principal of Policy and Evaluation at Community Solutions, recently spoke with @militarydotcom about the progress communities are making and why continued collaboration and investment matter. “We do not want to let off the gas here because we do have a ways to go.” Adam knows this work firsthand. Early in his career, he conducted outreach to veterans living on the streets, under bridges and in their cars. Today, he's helping us build on the progress communities have made through our #CompletingTheMission campaign. Our goal is simple: Help more veterans move off the streets and into stable housing, making veteran homelessness rare and brief everywhere. We've made progress. We know what's possible. Now let's complete the mission: completingthemission.org Read more: bit.ly/4isTKz8
A person is smiling in front of a colorful background featuring abstract shapes and illustrations of houses. The text reads: “Places like New Jersey, which has made incredible progress on supporting unchecked veterans living out in the streets. Places like Minnesota and Maine have statewide organizations that help fill in gaps for veterans. This continued investment and focus on veteran homelessness actually led to the results that we’re getting.” Below the text, it says: "Adam Ruege, principal of policy and evaluation at Community Solutions." The Completing the Mission logo is in the bottom corner.

ALT A person is smiling in front of a colorful background featuring abstract shapes and illustrations of houses. The text reads: “Places like New Jersey, which has made incredible progress on supporting unchecked veterans living out in the streets. Places like Minnesota and Maine have statewide organizations that help fill in gaps for veterans. This continued investment and focus on veteran homelessness actually led to the results that we’re getting.” Below the text, it says: "Adam Ruege, principal of policy and evaluation at Community Solutions." The Completing the Mission logo is in the bottom corner.

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Ending veteran homelessness? It’s already happening in communities like yours. 🇺🇸 Veteran homelessness is one of the clearest places where the country has already proven homelessness can be reduced. Over the past 15 years, communities across the U.S. have worked with focus and urgency to drive a 56% reduction in veteran homelessness, from more than 74,000 in 2010 to 32,495 in 2025, the lowest number ever recorded. The mission is not complete. Thousands of veterans are still without a home, including many still sleeping outside who can be reached with resources that already exist. #CompletingTheMission is a national campaign to house veterans every day and make veteran homelessness rare and brief everywhere. Join us: completingthemission.org
Poster titled 'Ending Veteran Homelessness?' features three people in military uniforms. Background includes abstract patriotic colors. Text below reads 'It’s already happening in communities like yours.' Logo at the bottom says 'Completing the Mission.'

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A major decrease in veteran homelessness rates is predicted this year, including one that may be historic. 🇺🇸🏠 Veteran homelessness fell 8.2% in 2026, the biggest drop in 10 years. We've already proven that veteran homelessness can be reduced. Now we're working with communities across the country to take that progress even further. Our mission? Help more veterans move off the streets and into homes, every single day, because the mission isn't complete until veteran homelessness is rare and brief everywhere. We're not slowing down. We're just getting started. #CompletingTheMission Join us: completingthemission.org Read more on @militarydotcom: bit.ly/4isTKz8

Completing the Mission | Ending Veteran Homelessness

Veteran homelessness is one of the clearest places where the country has already proven homelessness can be reduced. Let's complete the mission.

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Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland are making moves in Houston, and we're here for it! 🏠❤️ The longtime friends recently celebrated the opening of the Knowles-Rowland House, a new housing community with 31 apartments for people who have experienced chronic homelessness. The development also connects residents with mental health care, nutrition assistance and other support to help them stay housed. What started as a community youth center has now been transformed into permanent housing. 31 new homes. More opportunities for stability. And a community coming together to make it happen. 👏 bit.ly/4z01D5h

Watch Blue Ivy and Rumi Carter Join Beyoncé as Ribbon Cutters for the Knowles-Rowland House Opening

Beyoncé invited her daughters to come onstage for a meaningful milestone.

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Greater Kansas City Coalition to End Homelessness is making progress on veteran homelessness right here in Jackson and Wyandotte Counties. 🇺🇸 Since January 2025, their community have reduced veteran homelessness by 27% and helped 545 veterans move into housing. That progress didn’t happen by accident. It happened because local partners came together around one shared goal: helping veterans get home and stay housed. But there are still 321 veterans experiencing homelessness. They're joining Community Solutions and communities across the country in #CompletingTheMission Join us: completingthemission.org
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we're manifesting it 😉
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ALT Two hands forming a gentle curve around text that reads, "POV: more people in homes, fewer people on the streets" in rainbow-colored letters.

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One list, five organizations. 🫡 Five organizations in Shreveport, Louisiana, now meet every week with one shared list of everyone living on the street downtown, matching people to whatever housing opens up. Of the 51 people identified so far, 15 are housed and seven are in shelter, with a goal of housing everyone downtown by May 1, 2027. Read: bit.ly/4yiP8QO

State camping law prompts new Caddo homeless response

(The Center Square) – HOPE Connections is coordinating with local and national partners to move homeless residents into housing following Louisiana’s new ban on unauthorized public camping, Executive...

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German Lopez of the @nytimes editorial board spent two days in Denver and came away arguing that other cities are out of excuses. Mayor Mike Johnston walking him to Elati Village, a block of tiny houses 10 minutes from City Hall, where residents get a small private house with hot showers, a kitchen, and laundry while staff help them gather documents and connect to training, vouchers, and housing. Denver built that capacity before asking people to leave the streets. By the Times’ analysis of local data, the city’s unsheltered population is down 64% since 2023. The Urban Institute, which is independently evaluating Denver’s progress, found that the number of large encampments fell 91% between 2023 and 2025. “What they’re doing is working,” Samantha Batko, Senior Fellow at the @urbaninstitute, told the Times. Read the full story: nyti.ms/47ENs9L
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