{"id":13034,"date":"2015-09-16T15:33:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T19:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/?p=13034"},"modified":"2015-09-16T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T19:33:42","slug":"landlords-needed-to-help-end-veteran-homelessness-zero-2016-campaign-aimed-at-ending-veteran-homelessness-by-dec-31-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/2015\/09\/16\/landlords-needed-to-help-end-veteran-homelessness-zero-2016-campaign-aimed-at-ending-veteran-homelessness-by-dec-31-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Landlords needed to help end veteran homelessness; Zero: 2016 campaign aimed at ending veteran homelessness by Dec. 31, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/House-a-Vet-logo.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13035\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/House-a-Vet-logo-300x280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>FORT MYERS, Fla. (Sept. 16, 2015) \u2013\u00a0Participation by local landlords is greatly needed in order to help end veteran homelessness in Lee County by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Lee County Continuum of Care launched Southwest Florida\u2019s participation in Zero: 2016 in January, setting the stage for efforts to end veteran homelessness by Dec. 31, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been able to successfully house more than 130 veterans since the start of our campaign in January,\u201d said Janet Bartos, local Zero: 2016 committee member and executive director of the Lee County Homeless Coalition. \u201cBut now we have run out of housing options to place our remaining local veterans who are homeless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Bartos, the group is looking for landlords from Lee County who have available rental properties to house the approximate 50 veterans still needing homes.<\/p>\n<p>Section 8 HUD VASH Vouchers with approved payment standards will be used to supplement the rental amount.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we had 30 landlords who each had one to two units available, we could reach our goal by the end of 2015,\u201d Bartos said.<\/p>\n<p>Zero: 2016 is a national movement of 71 communities working to end veteran and chronic homelessness. The effort is being coordinated by Community Solutions, a national nonprofit based in New York City. The initiative is a rigorous follow-on to the group\u2019s successful 100,000 Homes Campaign, in which 186 communities housed 105,000 chronically homeless Americans in less than four years. Lee County Continuum of Care was selected for Zero: 2016 through a competitive, national application process.<\/p>\n<p>Zero: 2016 communities prioritize housing based on vulnerability and ensure that these individuals are matched with appropriate housing options.<\/p>\n<p>With actionable, person-specific data, updated during this year\u2019s Point-in-Time Count (PIT), local agencies were be able to connect people to appropriate housing options and available subsidies quickly, housing more people and ensuring that resources are being used as effectively as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The local Zero: 2016 committee is made up of members from the local public housing authority, government, Veterans Affairs, non-profit and continuum of care leaders.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about how you can help house a veteran, contact Janet Bartos at 239-322-6600.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in becoming a Section 8 Landlord utilizing the VASH Vouchers, contact Sherri Campanale with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hacfm.org\" target=\"_blank\">Housing Authority of the City of Fort Myers<\/a> at 239-344-3247.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0FORT MYERS, Fla. (Sept. 16, 2015) \u2013\u00a0Participation by local landlords is greatly needed in order to help end veteran homelessness in Lee County by the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[678,5329,1190,5330,5331,5332,30,5333,4622,5334,5335,5336,5337,16,1046,1191,407,5338,5339,820,5340,5341,19,2542,1427,5342,5343,5344,5345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}