10-Year Plans to End Homelessness
In 2006, the Michigan State Housing Development Authority introduced a statewide initiative to end homelessness in 10 years. All 83 counties in Michigan answered the challenge! Southwest Michigan Planning Commission worked with Cass County and Van Buren County community leaders and human service providers to develop locally-relevant customized 10-year plans with goals, objectives, and action steps to end homelessness. The link below goes to the 10-year plans.
10-Year Plans to End Homelessness
A Statistic
I cannot see you as a number
Or relegate you to a column
Because
You had a name
And it was not
Per cent
In little black words
On stark white paper
Your story unfolds...
Your birth, your pain
Your confusion
Your scars, bruises
Tears, and sorrow
It is all here
Until your last day
When you became
A number
Sleep gently now little one
For I heard you begging me
To do "Something"
Something more
Than write a report,
To do something
That matters
Because you mattered
