Thursday, November 29, 2018

Manchester Is Using The Arts To Address Its Homelessness Crisis

“The city council’s homelessness strategy for the next five years explicitly includes a commitment to increasing access to arts … [as part of] what is described as a jigsaw of homelessness support approaches.” Says one arts executive involved, “Funding to local government to help tackle homelessness was reduced, so for the first time the city council said they couldn’t solve it on their own – and we were there to offer a solution.”



Article source here:Arts Journal

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