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Jean-Michel Giraud appointed to D.C. Interagency Council on Homelessness PDF Print E-mail

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Community Council for the Homeless at Friendship Place is pleased to announce that D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has named Executive Director Jean-Michel Giraud to serve on the D.C. Interagency Council on Homelessness.

 

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Philip Mangano to Speak on End of Homelessness Standards PDF Print E-mail

WASHINGTON, DC—Philip Mangano, Executive Director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, will speak about the abolition of homelessness at the Washington National Cathedral’s Perry Auditorium on April 21st at 6:30 pm.  Organized by the Community Council for the Homeless at Friendship Place, Friendship Place Partners, and the Washington National Cathedral, attendance is by invitation only.

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Philip F. Mangano Biography PDF Print E-mail

Philip F. Mangano is widely considered the nation’s most eloquent advocate for the abolition of homelessness. Since being appointed Executive Director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) in 2002, he has engaged every level of government and the private sector to “constellate” a national partnership to end homelessness. Under Mr. Mangano's leadership, the Council has initiated Federal strategies that "move beyond funding to investing, beyond inputs to outcomes, and beyond managing the crisis to ending the disgrace."

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FAQs

What can the city do for people who are already homeless?
The city could build and/or support at least 2,000 new units of supportive housing (housing with access to services) for people who have been homeless for long periods of time and have disabilities and 1,000 new units for working poor people and youth with disabilities.It could provide 3,000 additional affordable units for extremely low-income people. It can replace or upgrade existing shelters. It can re-tool its human services so that employment, mental health, substance abuse and other services are available upon demand. (See the D.C. plan to end homelessness in ten years: Homeless No More.)