MINNEAPOLIS — Hours after the Biden-Harris Administration announced a plan to reduce homelessness 25% by 2025, Minnesota’s largest shelter for families experiencing homelessness said they'd welcome the focused effort.
But Grace Rieck, the director of shelter operations at People Serving People also acknowledged the plan may be a bit ambitious, even as it’s absolutely warranted.
“I’d love to see it. I’d love to see it. I’d hate to say no, because if that change is possible then sign me up,” Rieck said, acknowledging that change would require multi-government coordination and a tremendous amount of funding and social programs.
The President’s plan focuses on both homelessness prevention and availability of affordable housing, goals that also align with the approach of People Serving People. And those goals also come with perfect timing, given People Serving People’s own unprecedented demand for services during a “perfect storm” of inflation, a lingering pandemic and the end of federal pandemic support programs.
“I think it’s possible for the world to move in that direction, but that it’s going to take… a sort of fundamental shift in the way that we view homelessness and the people who are experiencing homelessness,” Rieck told KARE 11’s Karla Hult.
For more information on People Serving People and how you can support their services, visit: https://www.peopleservingpeople.org/
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