Rapid Rehousing – Minneapolis, MN

Hennepin County increases funding to meet escalating homelessness, By Rochelle Olson, July 21, 2013, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune: “Nita Wagner was starting to feel more hopeful about her life. She’d been sober for two years, was collecting $800 in monthly child support payments from her toddler’s dad and had settled into a one-bedroom apartment in northeast Minneapolis. But then the payments abruptly stopped, leaving her scrambling to find a way to pay her August rent. ‘For this to be happening and stay straight, this is a challenge,’ said Wagner, who at 37 has drug addiction, prostitution and domestic violence in her past. ‘I won’t cave. I won’t give up, but it sickens me to know we might be going backward.’ Such abrupt and wrenching setbacks are all too familiar to families such as Wagner’s. Now they’re getting extra help from an intensive Hennepin County housing program administered through St. Stephen’s Human Services…”