Markus Coleman, City of Phoenix
Katie Gentry, Maricopa Association of Governments
Rachel Milne, City of Phoenix, Arizona
Ollie Nyman, Community Bridges, Inc. (CBI)
Joanne Waszczak, FTA
Tamara Wright, USICH
For people at risk of or experiencing homelessness, transit provides reliable, affordable rides to essential services. Many transit agencies collaborate with nonprofits to distribute free or reduced fare cards to people who are unhoused. During extreme weather, some transit agencies deploy vehicles as cooling or warming centers. Many transit agencies also have started scheduling outreach workers, navigators or ambassadors to engage with unhoused riders, providing access and referral to shelter, housing and health care. But given the scale of our nation's homelessness crisis, we need to go deeper. The White House and the US Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) are responding to this crisis by launching ALL INside, a place-based initiative to reduce unsheltered homelessness. The Phoenix metro area is one of several cities selected to participate. ALL INside Phoenix is taking stock of effective practices so they can be iterated and scaled, and identifying barriers for federal, state and local partners to bust. Hear from the team doing this hard, important work.
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