Nonprofit Fighting Homelessness: ‘The Government Is Not The Provider Of All Things’

Audrey Conklin

Society, Americas

Aww.

A nonprofit organization is fighting the homelessness epidemic with a program that houses its residents and provides them with jobs in property management. 

• Shelters to Shutters’ founder, Chris Finlay, emphasizes that housing alone is not the solution to the homelessness crisis.

• “The government is not the provider of all things,” Finlay told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The current government’s solution to homelessness … has been ‘housing first’ for years.”

A nonprofit organization that provides jobs and discounted housing to people suffering from homelessness is trying to end the country’s homelessness crisis, and its founder says government funding cannot be the only solution.

The United States’ homeless population has been called a crisis, as seen in cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, where the pollution caused by human waste has garnered the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The agency sent a letter to California officials Thursday saying the state is “failing” to meet federal water-quality standards.

But Shelters to Shutters — a Virginia-based nonprofit organization that helps people suffering from homelessness find jobs in apartment complexes that offer discounted housing — is making headway in ending the crisis with a “93% success rate of participants not reentering homeless services,” according to its website.

EPA lambasts California for alleged violations of federal clean water laws, blaming homelessness in large cities. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s spokesman calls the criticism “political retribution.” https://t.co/eRVhX84UJT

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 26, 2019

“The government is not the provider of all things,” Shelters to Shutters founder and owner of a multifamily real estate company Chris Finlay told the Daily Caller News Foundation.