Yesterday’s homeless news… not so true

If you didn’t get my skeptcism in yesterday’s post, you might have overlooked this clue: It started with the phrase, “According to the Bush administration.” The  New York Times had reported that chronic homelessness in the United States had gone down 30% between 2005 and 2007.
Thirty percent is a lot. And it’s really a lot in just [...]

Aug 1: Celebrate Catalyst 8

I love it when organizations break out of how things are supposed to be done and just do it however they want. It can be a hard sell at the board meeting when this kind of thing comes up. You sit there with a group of people, brainstorming ideas for an event, when all of [...]

Is the Austin chronic-homeless count down?

According to the Bush administration, the number of chronically homeless people has dropped 30 percent from 2005 to 2007. Remember that a chronically homeless person is a little different; they are defined as a homeless person with a disabling condition who has been homeless for a year or more or has had frequent episodes of [...]