Keep your neighbors safe

As the winter chill sets in, the Milwaukee Coalition on Housing and Homelessness is asking for community support in our annual efforts to keep our neighbors experiencing homelessness safe during harsh winter weather. Annually, this coalition is tasked with coordinating a warming response despite the lack of any dedicated funding for this critical task. With budgets squeezed across systems and communities, we urgently require community funding so that we can reach our goal of implementing our Winter Warming Plan for the full winter season. 

 Last year our winter warming rooms served over 1100 unique individuals not just keeping them safe overnight but connecting many with housing and other support services. 

This year, our CoC’s Housing Focused Street Outreach teams housed more neighbors than ever and the MCHH has continued to creatively leverage resources and bring in new funding. Despite this, the pressures of poverty and economic insecurity mean more neighbors are experiencing homelessness for the first time than ever before. 

Every contribution, no matter the size, brings warmth and hope to our neighbors in crisis.