Homelessness is a solvable problem.

Ending homelessness is not due to a shortage of effective strategies or even a lack of money. If all stakeholders - service providers, constituents, government, business, landlords, foundations and citizens throughout the State - work together to prioritize permanent and supportive services to the most vulnerable among us, we can succeed.

The Foundation has also lent support to other causes that serve the homeless or work to reduce homelessness, such as the “Vote Yes on 7” campaign, a successful 2016 effort to win approval from Rhode Island voters for a $50 million affordable housing bond. 

Becoming an effective advocate means understanding how stories can best be used to promote social change. In this age of social media and the internet, organizing is taking new forms.  Therefore, we began working with the Engaged Scholars Program at Brown University to investigate how stories and performance can be effectively used to educate and mobilize for social change. 

The Helen Hudson Foundation works closely with other organizations, primarily The Rhode Island Coalition of the Homeless. The Coalition’s guiding principles align squarely with the work of the Helen Hudson Foundation: safe and affordable housing is a basic human right, a person’s worth is not determined by their housing status, and that solutions to ending homelessness will be informed by lived experience as well as data.     

For more information, contact:

Kristina Contreras Fox,Policy Analyst
Email Kristina Fox
401-424-1635