Videos
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View all our Friendship Place videos at our YouTube Channel
 
2009 Video About Friendship Place PDF Print E-mail

Friendship Place Video from the 5th Annual Friends & Neighbors Fundraising Breakfast.
 
2007 Video About Friendship Place PDF Print E-mail

About every two years we produce a new video for Friendship Place.This pro-bono video was prepared for the 3d Annual Friends & Neighbors Fundraising Breakfast by Hinkle & Nasuti. It features Andrew, Terry, Danny, and Eric--four Friendship Place consumers talking about living on the streets and transitioning to permanent housing. Eric passed away about six or seven months after the video was shown.

 
 
2005-Neighbors: Homeless and Housed in Northwest DC PDF Print E-mail

The Neighbors video is an entirely volunteer production, created by Diane Park for Friendship Place with assistance by Lee Carty and Abba Shapiro. It features George, David, Thelma, and Daniel. Four Friendship Place permanent residents and well as some volunteers, staff and board members sharing their thoughts about supporting services for homeless people.
 


FAQs

What can the city do for people who are already homeless?
The city could build and/or support at least 2,000 new units of supportive housing (housing with access to services) for people who have been homeless for long periods of time and have disabilities and 1,000 new units for working poor people and youth with disabilities.It could provide 3,000 additional affordable units for extremely low-income people. It can replace or upgrade existing shelters. It can re-tool its human services so that employment, mental health, substance abuse and other services are available upon demand. (See the D.C. plan to end homelessness in ten years: Homeless No More.)