Housing & Help

06/11/2023

Very honored that two of the experts on homelessness, featured in our Housing & Help video series, are also the authors of this article featured on CNN.com this week. Thank you Marc Eichenbaum and Mike Nichols for all you do to help everyone in Houston, here in Spokane and across America, develop a roadmap to manage homelessness. It can be done. Bravo!

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/opinions/homelessness-solutions-houston-model-eichenbaum-nichols/index.html

Marc Eichenbaum and Michael Nichols write that a decade ago Houston had one of the largest homelessness populations in the US, but today the city has reduced the number of unhoused people by over 60% by investing in the intervention of housing first.

11/17/2022

EPISODE 4: We travel to Houston, TX - to meet the experts involved in their tremendous reduction of homelessness.

11/12/2022

In this episode we travel to Houston, TX to meet the experts involved in their tremendous reduction of homelessness.

We have never experienced homelessness in our community on a scale like we are in Spokane today. In Housing and Help, a homeless solution series, you’ll meet...

10/02/2022

EPISODE 3 -
We have never experienced homelessness in our community on a scale like we are in Spokane today. So how did we get here? And how do we solve it? In Housing and Help, a homeless solution series, you’ll meet the people that are facing homelessness and those trying to provide help.

09/07/2022

09/02/2022

Housing and Help Episode 2 is available now! Camp Hope is the fastest growing community in Spokane and the largest homeless encampment on Washington State Land. In just nine months, this group of our neighbors experiencing homelessness, has grown from 160 protesters in front of City Hall to a small village of over 600 who have banded together for a variety of reasons.

We’ll meet Julie Garcia from Jewels Helping Hands, whose non-profit oversees this unique encampment of our neighbors that have somehow slipped through society’s cracks.

Please visit www.housingandhelp.org to watch previous episodes and access full podcast interviews.

https://youtu.be/UozTmcwWvZU

We have never experienced homelessness in our community on a scale like we are in Spokane today. So how did we get here? And how do we solve it? In Housing a...

08/29/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Kmd3vzVpo

Seattle's Low-Income Housing Institute is finding big success in tiny solutions, building more than 700 tiny homes in 17 villages for the city's homeless pop...

08/18/2022

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/aug/17/overview-of-proposed-east-spokane-homeless-shelter/?fbclid=IwAR1cP2jfV6hI5UuhwFH797uQdmPvB_RWG0ANTyYe6vURrmCYA-XWEbCYhOA

The Spokane City Council got a better look Monday at how the city’s developing homeless shelter on East Trent Avenue might work and cost.

08/16/2022

Gavin Cooley, host of Housing and Help, was a guest on the Most Interesting Person You've Never Heard Of Podcast. Check it out now!

How much is homlessness costing our community each year? Gavin Cooley, the recently retired CFO of the city of Spokane, who, by the way also survived working...

07/26/2022

Gavin Cooley and Frank Swoboda were guests on the local podcast, Thoughtfoolery, to discuss how Housing & Help started and what they hope comes from this important documentary web-series.
Check it out at the link below.
https://www.thoughtfoolery.com/behind-the-scenes-of-housing-help-with-gavin-cooley-and-frank-swoboda/?fbclid=IwAR0BbWYXJZi35GgcP8qcmUYUbOREYAomQQCtu1DBAF9LXYOe1dQF-4dOOSo

Gavin Cooley, host, and Frank Swoboda, Director-Writer-Producer, from Housing & Help, a new documentary series and podcast chronicling the housing and ho…

07/23/2022

Here’s a great article on where we go from here and how Spokane can solve homelessness from Gavin Cooley, the city of Spokane’s former chief financial officer, and Rick Romero, the city of Spokane’s former utilities director and director of strategic planning.

In our last column, we observed that collaboration and partnerships are the only way really big things get accomplished in Spokane. We also promised some...