Homeless in RI: An update and looking back a decade on the saddest story of 2022
Homeless in RI: An Update As we close the year, we note that as many as 1,000 people (depending on who is counting) are ushering in the New Year homeless, some living on the streets, or in the woods and parking lot cars. The new housing position of Josh Saal technically doesn’t begin until January 1st, 2023 and a whole department is being planned in the state budget. One of their first directives will be to author a strategic plan to end homelessness. Ten years ago the state developed such a plan – it was called “Opening Doors Rhode Island Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness”. It was a report compiled with private and public agencies. The report, in many ways, could have been written today. While the state writes a new plan, it might look back at the plan that was to end homelessness ten years ago – and why it didn’t work – and if there were parts in the plan that did work. An excerpt from the plan says that we ...