No Child Goes Homeless Campaign is a partnership between Project Hope and the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative that creates a strong network of neighborhood partners, institutions, schools, and city agencies to provide crisis intervention, resources, and organizing support to ensure that no child in the Dudley Village Campus goes homeless. The program is designed to 1) gather data and complete housing resource and needs assessment for all families in the Dudley Village Campus; 2) reduce level of evictions in Dudley neighborhood by scaling up successful eviction prevention efforts; 3) partner with schools to make them active partners in foreclosure and eviction prevention efforts; 4) implement anti-foreclosure organizing and use of community land trust to purchase foreclosed properties, 5) increase protection of current housing stock affordability and advocate for new affordable housing.

1. No Child Goes Homeless
STRATEGIES FOR
PROMOTING STABLE
HOUSING FOR CHILDREN
AND FAMILIES
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative

2. NEED
 High % of poverty in the neighborhood;
population in the Dudley Neighborhood lives
below the federal poverty limit of roughly $20,000
for a family of four (Census data)
 High % who become homeless; 45.7% of Boston’s
homeless families came from Dorchester and
13.9% came from Roxbury (2011 DHCD data)

3. The Rise of Family Homelessness in Boston
Family
Homelessness
has increased
dramatically
over the last
two years.
In August 2010, 720 families were
residing in motels, hotels, or shelters
in Boston.
In August 2011, there were 1743 families.
Now, in November 2011, there are
1272 families.
The recent slight decrease is due to the
HomeBASE program, BUT the
funding for that to continue has been
cut.

4. Last Addresses of current shelter residents, by
Boston neighborhood
41%
last lived in
02124,
02121,
&
02119
(Dorchester
& Roxbury)

5. Last Addresses for current shelter residents
(2011)
Circle of Promise
Dudley Street
Neighborhood
Initiative

7. Family Homelessness, Student Mobility, &
Student Performance
Family Homelessness has a dramatic effect upon
student mobility, which in turn has a dramatic
effect upon student school attendance and
performance.
One of the undeniable causes of family
homelessness is the inability of families to
afford housing.
Therefore we can have an impact on
student performance by tackling this issue.
More
Affordable
Housing
Decreased
Family
Homelessness
Decreased
Student
Mobility
Increased
School
Attendance
Increased
Academic
Performance

8. The No Child Goes Homeless initiative will create
a strong network of neighborhood partners,
institutions, schools, and city agencies to provide
crisis intervention, resources, and organizing
support to ensure that no child in target area goes
homeless.
No Child Goes Homeless

9. Elements of No Child Goes
Homeless Initiative:
• Gather data and complete housing resource and needs assessment
for all families in the Dudley Village Campus
• Reduce level of evictions in Dudley neighborhood by scaling up
successful eviction prevention efforts
• Partner with Schools to make them active partners in foreclosure
and eviction prevention efforts
• Implement Anti-Foreclosure organizing and use of CLT to purchase
foreclosed properties
• Increase protection of current housing stock affordability and
advocate for new affordable housing.

10. Partnering with 4 schools on the Dudley Village
Campus:
• Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School
• Dearborn Middle School
• Burke High School
• Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School
School Partnerships

11. NEW PROGRAM TO ASSIST HOMELESS
FAMILIES IN LOCAL SCHOOLS
 GOAL: is to identify which families are homeless and
to help place them into permanent housing.
 GOAL: is to stabilize the children so that they can
thrive in school.
 NEXT STEPS:
 Hire Case Manager / Housing Search Specialist
 Identify Homeless Families
 Secure resources for housing families

12. SCALE UP EVICTION PREVENTION WORK
 Data shows that for very little $$ evictions can be prevented;
 According to 2006 Boston Housing Court data, of those who were evicted the
average arrearage was about $1400;
 Project Hope’s work with Maloney Properties and new work with Winn;
 75 Maloney tenants preserved tenancies through our work;
 7 Winn Sites in the neighborhood will be served by Project Hope starting
next month through a grant form the City of Boston
 Key ingredients: Flex funds, relationships and case management;

13. FORECLOSURE PREVENTION WORK
 Boston Community Capital “Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods”
program
 City Life/Vida Urbana Bank Organizing: Post-Foreclosure Eviction
Defense Campaign
 Coalition for Occupied Homes in Foreclosure (COHIF) Pilot Project
 City of Boston Foreclosure Intervention Teams
 Dudley Neighbors Inc. Acquisition of Foreclosed Properties