In a collaboration with the Office of Rural Prosperity, Southwest Michigan Regional Housing Project (SWRHP) has started an Asset Mapping process. Your input will help create a clearer picture of the regional housing landscape.
This process will:
The survey will take 10-15 minutes to complete.
Join the Kalamazoo Continuum of Care for presentations from people working across the region in all roles in the homeless service sector, including grassroots organizations, advocates, policymakers, program and system leaders, frontline workers, philanthropic partners, developers, people with lived expertise of homelessness, researchers, and others.
Example Sessions
Lunch Session
Housing Security and College Success: How Eviction Derails Parents in College and Ways to Change That Reality.
Based on collaborative work between Princeton Eviction Lab and New America’s Parenting Student Initiative, this session walks through why parenting students are such a critical population in higher education today, why housing security is vital to their success, and how lessons from parenting students can be applied to all students facing basic needs insecurity. We will explore who parenting students are as a group, what the data we have shows about how harmful eviction and housing insecurity is for parenting students’ success in college, and the cross-sector work needed to help change this narrative. Attendees will leave with new knowledge, ways to think about cross sector partnerships, and hopefully be inspired to work on local housing solutions to help parenting students succeed.