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Making a Great City Sheltering the Unsheltered

Sheltering the Unsheltered

Presented By
Mandy Chapman Semple

The most innovative public policies are often created at the local level, rather than in the courts. This is especially true when it comes to finding a way to shelter a city’s unhoused population.

As part of the Making a Great City series, Mandy Chapman Semple talks about designing and co-managing the transformation of Houston, Texas’s homeless system, which resulted in a 60% reduction in homelessness over four years. She discusses the project and a similarly successful effort in New Orleans, explaining how and why they worked.

She also details how focusing on housing and healing individuals living in encampments and offering on-site medical teams, addiction specialists, and outreach workers can move cities away from the model of enforcing anti-encampment codes, which result in an ineffective cycle of ticketing and arrests.

A nationally recognized expert in homeless systems based in Houston, Semple helps communities launch transformative new strategies and program innovations, generating measurable results.

This event is co-sponsored by JE Dunn Construction and will be streamed live at YouTube.com/kclibrary. No RSVP is required to view the livestream. The video will also be available for on-demand viewing after the event.

This event is co-sponsored by: JE Dunn Construction

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The Kansas City Public Library could be videotaping and taking photos for possible inclusion in marketing and promotional communications.

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Making a Great City Sheltering the Unsheltered

Sheltering the Unsheltered

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Reception: 5:30 pm
Helzberg Auditorium
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