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Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter
Patrisse Cullors on system change, movement building, and homelessness
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Patrisse Cullors, activist, author, and the Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter, delivered a powerful keynote address at the Built for Zero Conference and Learning Session in Detroit earlier this summer. 
 
Cullors’ talk corresponded to one of the tracks of the conference: taking action on structural racism.
Rendering of the Livonia 4 development in Brownsville, Brooklyn
New Housing, Health Supports On the Way in Brownsville
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The City of New York’s Department of Housing, Preservation and Development (HPD) announced last week that Community Solutions and our partners have been selected to create a transformational mixed-use project on long vacant sites along Livonia Avenue in Brownsville.
Quicken Loans CEO Jay Farner and Community Solutions President Rosanne Haggerty at the Built for Zero Conference in Detroit
Communities come together to end homelessness at the Detroit Built for Zero Conference
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This week nearly 600 people gathered in Detroit for the Built for Zero Conference and Learning Session, all on a journey to end homelessness in communities around the country.
 
The event brought together communities in the Built for Zero collaborative and 20,000 Homes Campaign, a partner campaign coordinated by the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness to help 20 Canadian communities end chronic homelessness by 2020.
This plaque is displayed at the John and Jill Ker Conway Residence in Washington D.C.
A note on the naming of the John and Jill Ker Conway Residence
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At the groundbreaking for the John and Jill Ker Conway Residence, Jill Ker Conway shared the following stories about how military service impacted her life and the lives of both her father, William Ker, who fought in World War I, and her husband, John Conway, who fought in World War II. Today this plaque hangs in the John and Jill Ker Conway Residence, a supportive housing residence for formerly homeless veterans in Washington, D.C.

 

Richard Swinson
Community Solutions Staff Spotlight: Richard Swinson
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What’s your history? How did you end up at Community Solutions?
 
I have been involved with and working in the Brownsville community for the past 50 years. I have been a motivator for change and an advocate for youth services, and I have encouraged inclusion in the process to create a dialogue that can help Brownsville residents be a part of solutions here.
 
I retired in 2013 to care for my mother, who passed away in 2014, which left a void in my life.
We've Enlisted Veterans to Help Us End Veteran Homelessness
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Nearly 50,000 veterans continue to experience homelessness in America, but we're committed to solving that problem. As they always do, veterans are leading the way in that work! We're sharing the stories of our team members with military backgrounds and why they've chosen to continue their service here at Community Solutions:

 

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