#Homelesshack by homelesshack

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Interested in homelessness? Wondering about getting involved? Why not try this?

If you get involved just to find out more about homelessness that would be great. If you would like to do more it doesn’t really matter how much time you can spare or what skills and experience you can offer - there will be a team that would love to have your support and encouragement and you will probably learn something new.

There are conversations going on in social media and #homelesshack in twitter has become a kind of community notice board to share information and ask for help.

Events are fun, motivating and a great way to get a lot of information in a short space of time. Events are being organised around the country and it would be great to see more of different shapes and sizes in more places.

Small groups are organising events or trying out new ideas. We have provided links to most of these. If you are not sure how to help feel free to contact the team directly.

Projects in progress

London projects:

Better matching of volunteer supply and demand
Mining and analysing data on housing benefit rates and actual rents
Research on building conversations and relationships
Prototyping street furniture to help people meet and engage
Safe space knowledge for frontline police officers

Manchester projects (underway):

Mapping the landscape to understand the best path for individuals at risk
Connecting charities together through social media to jointly fund and raise awareness
Deciphering root causes to aid prevention through understanding real stories and risks
Platform to connection spares rooms and loving homes with vulnerable people
Ways to inform the appropriate organisations that someone needs help before alerting the police

Leeds Projects:

Setting up a GitHub repository to help Simon on the Streets (a local homelessness charity) run more efficiently
Designing a leaflet to educate the public on how they can help homeless people on the street
Using data to provide personalised interventions to prevent homelessness before it happens
Using Twitter to toggle publicised availability of charity services
Stop homeless people having to give their life story for every service they try to access