Welcome to Lakeview Pantry's Education and Advocacy Newsletter!
We invite you to join our journey of understanding hunger and poverty and working towards innovative policy solutions to address them.
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Urban Poverty
Causes and Policy Interventions
 Part 1
Recent budget crunches and economic challenges are pushing policy makers, government, social service agencies and researchers to revisit the issue of urban poverty in hopes of creating innovative, effective policy solutions to alleviate it.
The fact is urban poverty in America has remained stubbornly resistant to public policy solutions for decades. In fact, the gap between low-income, inner-city residents and the mainstream has widened since the 1960s. At the same time, a flood of research has attempted to explain the causes of and solutions for urban poverty. Read more
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A History of Destruction
SROs on the Verge of Extinction
Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels have been a feasible housing option for many of America's low-income citizens since the late 19th century.From early 1970s to 1997, Chicago lost nearly 40,000 SRO units. Losses have decreased since 1994 when non-profit organizations began buying and managing SRO hotels, but many are still closing like the Belair, Sheffield House and Ambers Hotel that closed in the last two years alone.Read more
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Out of the Box
Fresh approaches to poverty reduction
The Family Independence Initiative is working to create a model in which families at any income level can come together with friends to determine their own futures; and a system of supports that responds to these self-determined paths.Over this last decade FII has demonstrated that investing in people's strengths and initiative delivers more powerful, sustainable, and cost effective outcomes for low-income families. Their strength-based approach, as radical and as old as America's democracy, is inspired by the historical successes of poor communities in the U.S.
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