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Housing First, Equity Always: Rethinking Homelessness Through Systems Thinking
Presented at the 2025 Person Centered Housing Options (PCHO) Annual Conference: e-Racing the Shades – Confronting Housing Inequities, Housing First, Equity Always explores how systems thinking reshapes our understanding of homelessness.
Through powerful visuals and grounded storytelling, the presentation reveals how traditional “stairway to success” models often measure compliance instead of stability — and how the Housing First approach aligns compassion with data and evidence. By applying stock and flow system models, it demonstrates why solving homelessness requires seeing the entire system, not just individual circumstances.
The session connects real data, empathy, and design to show how smarter, fairer systems can transform housing outcomes and help communities create lasting change.
Location: RIT Inn & Conference Center, Rochester, New York Date: October 16–17, 2025
Learn more: https://pcho.org