Location: Los Angeles, CA.
What led to homelessness: schizoaffective disorder.
Housing First agency: Step Up.
Notable: now works full-time at Step Up where he founded the Computer Learning Center.
Our favorite quote: "The big part is getting a home..."

Location: Los Angeles, CA.
What led to homelessness: the Great Recession and mental illness.
Housing First agency: LA Family Housing.
Notable: works as notary public and serves as a CSH Speak Up! Advocate.
Our favorite quote: "If a homeless person could help themselves, they wouldn't be homeless."

Location: Boston, MA.
What led to homelessness: addiction due to childhood trauma.
The Housing First agency: Pine Street Inn.
Notable: co-founded Safe and Sound Recovery Center.
Our favorite quote: "I tell my story because I know my story is someone else's story."

Location: Gloucester, MA.
What led to homelessness: addiction due to childhood over-prescribed ADD meds.
Length of homelessness: 13 years.
Housing First agency: Action Inc.
Our favorite quote: "You have to feel like you're worth something..."

Location: Gloucester, MA.
What led to homelessness: abusive relationship.
Length of homelessness: one year.
Housing First agency: Housing First program for families through the Gloucester Housing Authority.

Location: Los Angeles, CA.
What led to homelessness: schizoaffective disorder.
Housing First agency: Step Up.
Notable: now works full-time at Step Up where he founded the Computer Learning Center.
Our favorite quote: "I am not a miracle."

Location: Los Angeles, CA.
What led to homelessness: addiction due to medical injury.
Housing First agency: Skid Row Housing Trust.
Notable: studying to be a medical assistant and serves as a CSH Speak Up! Advocate.

Location: Los Angeles, CA.
What led to homelessness: schizophrenia.
Housing First agency: Downtown Women's Center.
Notable: serves as a CSH Speak Up! Advocate.
Our favorite quote: "That homeless person you're afraid of that is...

Location: Los Angeles, CA.
What led to homelessness: drug and alcohol addiction.
Length of homelessness: 8-10 years.
Housing First agency: Skid Row Housing Trust.
Notable: now works for Skid Row Housing Trust and serves as a CSH Speak Up! Advocate.

With the help of a hundred generous individuals and organizations, a year of filming and months of editing, we are pleased to announce the completion of the first leg of BEYOND THE BRIDGE: A Solution To Homelessness.

Like most West Coast cities, Seattle is in the middle of an unprecedented homeless crisis. Short on cash, the Seattle City Council attempts to tax their largest companies to bring in the needed revenue. But things don't go according to plan.

Around the country, Milwaukee is known for squeaky cheese curds, bitterly cold winters and now - surprise! - for being the largest county in the US to end chronic homelessness. So how did Milwaukee do it? Watch our latest short film to find out.