From Homeless to Home. A Cleveland Veteran's Story of Hope.
Anthony Pough: I've lived in the sewer for 10 years and in the darkness, and I couldn't find the right tunnel to get to the light.
Matt Zone: On any given night, over 15 years ago, there were four to 5,000 homeless people living on the city streets of Cleveland.
Julie Demor: You just have to wonder what happens to them. I mean, they die out there.
TK: Using the Housing First model, we can solve chronic homelessness.
Matt Zone: We set a goal almost 15 years ago to build a thousand units of permanent supportive housing.
Frank Jackson: It takes people who would be chronically homeless. It puts them into an environment and it services their needs.
Anthony Pough: The building, to me, affords me an opportunity to start over.
Ed Lavelle: And I'll tell you, yeah, it's really nice being able to be in that apartment and get my stuff together.
Rob Curry: Packing in access to social services as well behavior health services.
Julie Demor: I'm seeing lives rebuilt every day. I'm seeing people win in their battle with addiction.
Matt Zone: And they become integrated and reconnected with their family and with the community like they were prior to slipping into homelessness.
Anthony Pough: I finally found the right tunnel. I'm finally getting out.
Frank Jackson: Whenever there's something that we do, and do well, and we're successful at, then we have to do it as a community.
Beth Mooney: And at the end of the day, we lift up a community, we lift up populations, to really turn and become places that people can call home, safely live, and have access to work and build their families.