Report: Former NBA player helping fight homelessness with 47-unit complex
There is mounting evidence that one of the best ways for municipalities to help those most in need is to provide them with housing. It's a solution elegant in its simplicity, but deceptively so. Building housing requires quite an investment in capital and time. It's simple, but not easy.
But the fight against homelessness becomes a bit easier when you have a former NBA player on your side, like the people of Minneapolis have in former Los Angeles Lakers guard and native Minnesotan Devean George. George is helping to build a 47-unit affordable housing complex in Minneapolis, complete with a shopping complex and local grocery store.
"Housing, I believe, is the foundation to doing whatever you want to do," George said. "If you don’t have stable housing, you’re not worried about education, you’re not worried about eating healthy, you’re not worried about anything else."
[...] For George, this is all about creating a space where people can have the amenities needed to thrive.
"That’s what people look for when they go live in a neighborhood," George said. "Where’s my grocery store? Where is my movie theater? Where can we go eat? Where can our kids go play at a park? And this was just a place where there is just housing."
(h/t CBS Minnesota)
