How can we support the most vulnerable populations in our community when they experience homelessness? How might we help prevent homelessness in the first place? Impact Justice’s Homecoming Project (impactjustice.org/innovation/...) takes a popular idea - home sharing - and applies it to a non-traditional population - formerly incarcerated individuals exiting the justice system. Formerly incarcerated people are almost 10 times more likely to be homeless (www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/...) than the general public. The Homecoming Project model provides a novel and successful path for individuals who might otherwise become homeless to instead re-enter society in a welcoming housing environment.
Impact Justice’s Homecoming Project (impactjustice.org/innovation/...) was the 2021 Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability Winner in Public Policy & Regulatory Reform ( • 2021 Ivory Prize Winne... ) .
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Aishatu Yusuf (impactjustice.org/people/aish...) is the Vice President of Innovation Programs at Impact Justice where she has created, evaluated, and sustained a portfolio of transformational projects that work to reform and transform social systems.
Jenna Louie ( / jennarlouie ) is the Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer at Ivory Innovations (ivoryinnovations.org/) , a nonprofit with the mission to catalyze innovation in housing affordability. Since 2018, the Ivory team has spoken with hundreds of innovators working on novel housing solutions - learn more at ivoryinnovations.org/database (ivoryinnovations.org/database) .
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