Community advocates from California, Ohio and Texas share the root causes of homelessness in communities

In this Black Headline News Live episode, news anchor, Julia Dudley Najieb, reviews the solutions a few cities and counties across the nations are using to decrease homelessness dramatically in this Part 2: Homelessness, replicating solutions that have been proven to work broadcast.

From an Ethnic Media Services briefing last month, Dudley Najieb featured the success stories of these almost "functional zero" homelessness communities. Community advocates, Ana Rausch and Catherine Villarreal, located in Harris County Texas, and Matthew Lewis of YIMBY out of Berkeley, Calif., both spoke about how the historical causes of homelessness and its direct link to the Black population who is homeless in disproportionate numbers.

It's been a national crisis for decades: as of 2020. homelessness has had a crippling effect on the lives of over 580,400 people in the Unites States without a place to call home, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The 2020 Annual Homeless Assessment Report Part 1 to Congress stated that there was 2.2 percent increase in homelessness from 2019.