Housing Svc

The non-profits are often expected to assume the colonial myth, that addressing basic needs like education, equitable income, housing and food security is completely possible, if youth and families just try hard enough. But this is not the case for most people we encounter. There is a deepening structural crisis of rural homelessness, poverty and disenfranchisement. There is a deepening systemic divide between rural lived experience and the programs of urban colonial funders, programs that inadvertently may exclude the very rural youth and adults who need these services the most. The last few years have really clarified for us that we need to speak up, to better serve and advocate for rural populations increasingly struggling to survive.