Local Leaders Look For Big Ideas to Solve Homelessness 

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Local Leaders Look For Big Ideas to Solve Homelessness 
Feb 18, 2026 Season 2 Episode 13
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As the number of unsheltered people ticks up, state and local agencies are scrambling to find enough beds. They’re also having to navigate changing federal policies which threaten funding. Creativity is key and, in some places, it helps to solve homelessness. This includes the use of data analytics to keep people in their homes and state laws requiring developers to build affordable housing. Brick by Brick convenes a roundtable to talk solutions.

Interview guests: Patrick Bailey, Assistant Director of Human Services, Planning and Development for Montgomery County; Kevin Finn, President and CEO of Strategies to End Homelessness; and Kathy Rowell, Ph.D., sociologist, teacher and the Del Mar Encore Fellow for the Dayton Foundation at the Fitz Center for Leadership in the Community at the University of Dayton.

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