NCV Focus on Housing
Jun 11th, 2010 by terry
Photo: Stock Exchange/Missed Opportunities
Everywhere I look, a family or an individual seems to be falling through the cracks, so I usually write about whatever tugs at my heart.
My recent alignment with Sound ConneXions, and Sound ConneXions Chicago, whose goal is to support social entrepreneurs engaging in social innovation, gives me the courage to take on a project that is too daunting to even contemplate as an individual: our housing crisis. I have every expectation that committed roll-up-the-sleeve do-ers, who work tirelessly to make a difference in the world, will show up at every Forum. Sound ConneXions Forums provide a platform to for social entrepreneurs to find each other, to discover common interests and to get to work cleaning up some part of the mess that we slog through every day.
Our housing crisis makes me crazy so that is the newly narrow focus of my effort. My goal is to inform and educate the public about housing alternatives that may be more suitable and supportive for the various stages of life, from just starting out to winding down. Demographic populations that may benefit from looking at housing in a broader context include: older people who don’t need nursing home care but need to be around people for a good portion of the day, single parents, seniors, disabled people, young adults who have aged out of the foster care system, veterans and their families.
Watch for more pixels, stories and clamor to raise the decibel level on housing for families, children, disabled people, veterans and more.
The first Sound ConneXions Chicago Forum is on Saturday, June 26th at Loyola University Chicago’s Water Tower Campus. Please follow this link to sign up. We ask for a$15 donation, payable at the door, to cover the costs of lunch and refreshments. Please sign up at this link so that we know how many people to feed!
For more info: New Community Vision is eager to work with individuals and groups, such as Sound ConneXions, to spawn a movement to think about our social and housing paradigms in a new context. Community gatherings to address our universal challenges are the fertile soil in which durable solutions take root. Please subscribe to this blog and contact us for more information.