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Virginia Supportive Housing and VHDA Win National Housing Award
November 14, 2013Richmond, Va. ‐‐ Nov. 14, 2013 – Virginia Supportive Housing (VSH), the statewide non‐profit organization that serves homeless adults by providing permanent, supportive housing, recently received a national housing award recognizing outstanding achievement from the National Council of State Housing Agencies in partnership with the Virginia Housing Development Authority (VHDA), the state’s housing finance agency.
Read full press releaseNotable Gifts: Wells Fargo donates $95,000 to ‘housing first’ initiative
November 14, 2013Wells Fargo & Co. has donated $95,000 to Virginia Supportive Housing to renovate the Studios II development in South Richmond as part of $6 million in grants nationally for neighborhood stabilization projects.
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November 11, 2013 Read full article via VSHVirginia Supportive Housing Celebrates 25 Years of Proven Solutions to Homelessness
November 11, 2013VSH now the state’s largest provider of supportive housing
Richmond, VA – November 11, 2013 – Virginia Supportive Housing (VSH) is proud to celebrate 25 years of ending homelessness. What began as SRO Housing Richmond has evolved to become the largest provider of supportive housing across the state.
Read full press releaseSolutions to homelessness require regional efforts
November 3, 2013On any given day in the Richmond Region, there are between 700 and 1,000 people who are homeless, according to the January and July 2013 Point In Time (PIT) Counts of individuals experiencing homelessness.
Of that number, about 80 percent are single adults without children and about 10 percent are literally living on the streets, in camps, under bridges, in vehicles and on park benches. These “unsheltered” individuals are the most vulnerable, the ones most likely to die if they remain on the streets.
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