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For years, cities focused on clearing homeless encampments. Urban Alchemy aims to build trust inside them first.

We’re proud to share that SF HEART has been recognized with a Certificate of Honor from Mayor Lurie for the successful completion of the first phase of the City’s Recreational Vehicle/Large Vehicle Permit Operations program. This effort focused on helping residents living in RVs purchase their vehicles and transition toward stable housing — a crucial step in preserving dignity and…

Cities and community groups are piloting new designs — wellness-focused campuses, intentional communities and policy shifts — to address the failures of the traditional shelter system.

Construction will begin on phase one of the City of Birmingham’s Home For All microshelter pilot program, an initiative designed to provide safe, dignified shelter and wraparound services for several of the city’s unhoused residents. The $2.4 million project is scheduled to have construction completed by the end of the year.

Santa Fe’s emergency shelter, formally known as the Interfaith Community Shelter at Pete’s Place, has been in the headlines the past few months after city councilors voted to end a month-to-month contract with the nonprofit, which had provided an array of services to area homeless people for decades.

This month marks one year since the opening of Urban Alchemy’s Oasis, a downtown refuge for Austin’s unhoused. According to a World Health Organization report, heat is to blame for more deaths than any other extreme weather. It can be particularly dangerous for the unhoused. The heat killed nearly two dozen people experiencing homelessness between 2018 and 2023, according to…

Workers in bright green vests will be popping up this week around Santa Fe’s Cerrillos Road corridor and in the downtown area. They aren’t doing construction or directing traffic — rather, the workers were hired to provide services to homeless residents.

The recent acclaim garnered by the City of Austin’s Eighth Street Women’s Shelter serves as a beacon, illuminating the path toward more equitable and inclusive support systems for marginalized communities. In a commendable achievement, the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) honored the shelter with a Community Equity and Inclusion Award.

After revoking long-time Santa Fe homeless shelter Pete’s Place’s lease, the city is now counting down the days for a new out-of-state operator to take over. The California non-profit Urban Alchemy is preparing to run the roughly 75-bed shelter starting on August 1.

As a species, we are awakening to the pain from which births our unified consciousness, to the evolution of the collective higher sense which empowers our neurological pathways for quantum activism. There is a clear connection calling us all, to rise upright from the pain as we invoke the sacred fire that illumines our collective heart-sense: the eternal torch that…

The city of Portland is now operating one of the city’s first outdoor homeless shelter villages, taking the reins from a local nonprofit and handing them to its favorite out-of-state provider. In April, Portland-based Sunstone Way found out that California-based group Urban Alchemy was coming in to take over operations…

Tenderloin residents say that the “urban oasis” model San Francisco city officials now want to develop at the former “triage center” at Sixth and Stevenson streets, an area known as an epicenter of drug activity, has worked before.