MacArthur Foundation awards $100 million to end homelessness in America

The U.S. nonprofit Community Solutions plans to eliminate homelessness in 75 communities within five years. National Geographic’s Pristine Seas was a finalist for the prize.

Brendon Sassmannshaus, aka Tequila Ray Snorkel, lives in a van in front of the Box Shop in San Francisco. Before the pandemic, more than 568,000 people experienced homelessness on a given night in Community Solutions aims to change that with its innovative data-driven approach.
Photograph by Carolyn Drake, Nat Geo Image Collection

The MacArthur Foundation has announced that it is awarding $100 million to the U.S. nonprofit Community Solutions to continue its work ending homelessness in communities across the country. The prize is part of the foundation’s 100&Change competition, which funds projects that promise “real and measurable progress” in solving critical global problems.

“We are so enormously grateful,” Rosanne Haggerty, the organization’s president and chief executive officer, said during a virtual event announcing the award on April 7. “In a year that we all have experienced the fragility of life, our interdependence, and the call for racial equity, ending homelessness is truly an idea whose time has come.”

Community Solutions plans to use the $100 million grant to end homelessness in 75

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