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    How Atlanta Is Streamlining Funding And Targeting The Most Vulnerable To Reduce Homelessness

    The city of Atlanta is using some innovative approaches to tackle homelessness, which has dropped by almost 30 percent since 2015.
    Feb 22, 2019 5 minutes
    The city of Atlanta is using some innovative approaches to tackle homelessness, which has dropped by almost 30 percent since 2015. (Photo by Davis Turner/Getty Images)

    The state of Georgia has reduced homelessness by 51 percent since 2007, and Atlanta has brought it down significantly in that time as well. Since 2015, the number of people who are homeless has dropped almost 30 percent.

    Advocates in Atlanta are employing some innovative methods to tackle homelessness, like aligning public and private funding streams. Cathryn Marchman, executive director of Partners for HOME (Housing Opportunities Made for Everyone), an organization that aims to end homelessness in Atlanta, says the marriage of those dollars is “critical” in the city’s fight to reduce homelessness.

    One such partnership is with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), a public funding stream in Georgia that typically funds child welfare and foster care, she tells Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson.

    “In Georgia, we recognize that the No.1 risk factor for families entering the child welfare system is housing

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