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A collaborative of area health care providers and Linn County social service agencies is exploring the feasibility of creating a street medicine team to help deliver health care to the unhoused.

Housing insecurity remains a complex issue with myriad underlying causes and challenges, but evidence is mounting that ongoing collaborations and newly established initiatives are starting to make a difference.

The Linn County Board of Supervisors in many ways is a lesser known cog in the local government machine with a broad purview over issues affecting Linn County residents. And for the first time in over a decade, it’s made up entirely of first-term members.

One year ago, J’nae Peterman started charting a new way forward for Cedar Rapids and Linn County. Now, the route to help end homelessness has been outlined with five pillars.

Linn County’s Alliance for Equitable Housing is still seeking landlords to participate in a pilot program announced in October that would provide financial incentives to Linn County landlords to offer housing to individuals who have had difficulty getting approved for leases in the past.

The Cedar Rapids Fire Marshal’s Office on Tuesday placarded the Kiteville Minimalist Living Community after it failed to remedy multiple safety violations, including failures of the fire sprinkler and alarm systems.

The dramatic rise was driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday.

Linn County’s Alliance for Equitable Housing in October unveiled plans for a pilot program, funded by Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust, that would provide financial incentives to Linn County landlords to offer housing to individuals who have had difficulty getting approved for housing in the past. The program officially opened up to interested landlords on Nov. 20, but so far no landlords have been connected with tenants.

After a decade at Waypoint, where she served as housing services director, J’nae Peterman taking a deep dive to find unified solutions for homelessness that have vexed countless nonprofits and municipalities across the country.

A pilot program funded by Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust will launch next month with the goal to house 30 “housing-challenged” tenants with private landlords in an effort to reduce homelessness and housing insecurity.