On May 3, 2016 the Richmond City Council voted unanimously to research the feasibility of developing tiny houses for the city’s homeless. Councilmember Jovanka Beckles and Saffron Strand CEO Yvonne Nair were quoted in a local news report. This news report ties in with Saffron Strand’s 7th Annual Homeless Workforce Conference — “Working with the

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“Every organization serving the homeless and other vulnerable populations faces the challenge of employee burnout or other dysfunction of front line workers,” says Matt Bennett, MBA, MA, chief innovation officer at the Coldspring Center for Health and Innovation in Denver, CO. “If your organization serves vulnerable populations, like the homeless,” Bennett points out, “there’s a

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