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Communicating Data, Progress, and System Challenges
Purpose This guide is intended for community leaders and system leads who regularly translate homelessness response data for partners, elected officials, funders, providers, media, and the broader public. It offers …
What We’ve Learned and Where We’re Headed – A Fireside Chat
What do we know about the trajectory of homelessness estimates across the U.S.? What has the Built for Zero Network learned and contributed? What are the high-impact opportunities ahead? Join …
Power-Sharing Frameworks
Types of power Dismantling Power Power share: A practice wherein a group distributes power, whatever type, among themselves according to agreed-upon rules. The agreed-upon rules can be a formal framework or …
PWLEH Compensation Guide
This memo outlines Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless’s (TJACH) minimum rates and guidelines for compensating persons with lived experience/expertise (PLE). The rates in this memo are a baseline, …
A Roadmap for Engaging People with Lived Experience of Homelessness
Phase 1: Ensure Organizational Readiness & Leadership Commitment ( 3-6 months) **Are you ready to co-design? ** Areas to address Leadership readiness: People with Lived Experience Engagement: Changing Practice and …
Reporting on your PIT Count Data
This resource offers Built for Zero leaders guiding questions to develop a communications strategy around the 2025 point-in-time count release and build an ongoing approach to data communications. Please contact …
Showing and Telling: The Power of Visual Storytelling
Q: Can we reduce homelessness? A: I’ll believe it when I see it. Polling shows that a supermajority of voters (84%) believe homelessness can be radically reduced. But 1 in …
Talking about Built for Zero
Built for Zero is a national network of more than 170 communities across the United States working to measurably and meaningfully reduce homelessness — and proving that real, sustained progress …
Talking about By-name data
What is by-name data? By-name data is a comprehensive database of every person in a community experiencing homelessness, updated in real time. Using information collected and shared with their consent, …
Achieving functional zero
Key Resources Media Templates Media Kit You can access our Built for Zero media kit at this link. Examples
Talking about progress
A quick-start guide for talking about the work The big idea When communities act with speed, coordination, and accountability, homelessness can be measurably reduced. Communities across the country are proving …
