Quicken Loans Inc., a CMF member, has announced a new long-term partnership with the nonprofit organization Community Solutions to end veteran homelessness across the country, starting in Detroit.
Content excerpted and adapted from articles in Crain’s Detroit Business (full article) and The Detroit News (full article).
Quicken Loans Inc., a CMF member, has announced a new long-term partnership with the nonprofit organization Community Solutions to end veteran homelessness across the country, starting in Detroit.
In addition to providing funding, Quicken Loans has committed expertise in data, analytics, marketing and communications through skilled employee volunteerism to enhance and support the efforts of Community Solutions in about 60 U.S. cities.
As reported, Community Solutions has been working with the Detroit Continuum of Care and its associated agencies to develop a systemic approach to getting people into permanent supportive housing and providing them with the wraparound mental health, job training or other services they might need to keep them off the streets.
"To this point our involvement has been in helping the community form a team, collecting data in more actionable ways and training them in quality improvement and human-centered design, all the problem-solving skills a team needs to be able to apply" to end homelessness, Rosanne Haggerty, president, Community Solutions, told Crain’s.
Community Solutions has been recognized by the White House and the United Nations, among others, for its approaches to ending homelessness; communities participating in their model have found homes for more than 90,000 people over the past three years.
"The thought was once we got rolling and started to see progress with veterans, you can apply what you've learned and help solve the entire homeless population issue," Jay Farner, CEO, Quicken Loans, shared.
“Ultimately, ending homelessness - period - is something that can be accomplished, and I think that is what everyone here is focused on," Farner told The Detroit News. "We have a team of 17,000 people who are very excited to get going here."
“We see Detroit as a real proof point to the nation on how to execute this collaboration," Haggerty said. "It's a highly accountable strategy that involves the whole community in getting to this result."
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