How we can prevent homelessness | Ali Rabe | TEDxBoise

When living paycheck-to-paycheck, as more people today do, merely one life crisis can lead to eviction. Eviction doesn’t always lead to homelessness, but oftentimes it does, and the negative impacts can last a lifetime. We can prevent the traumatic, life-altering experience of eviction from happening to people by investing in preventive interventions and triaging need for help through communities’ emergency response systems. Ali is the Executive Director of Jesse Tree, a nonprofit preventing eviction and homelessness for low-income families in the Treasure Valley. Prior to joining Jesse Tree Ali was a Staff Attorney at HomeBase, headquartered in San Francisco, where she supported local governments and service providers in their efforts to end homelessness. In 2012 Ali received the Boren Fellowship, through which she supported indigenous communities in rural Cambodia fighting to keep their land. She continued the same work in Sierra Leone. Ali also spent some years working for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as an adjudicator, processing refugees from all over the world. Ali is an Idaho native and holds a B.A. from The College of Idaho and a J.D. from William & Mary Law School. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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