"A church can attempt to move families from…" — Geoffrey Heth (#c408)

Card #c408IR // #c408SynthesisThesis

A church can attempt to move families from housing insecurity to housing security through deep, long-term relational community investment: RockPointe Church's Housing Secure Initiative was a 36-month journey with six Calgary families, treating them with the dignity and compassion the author sees modeled by Jesus, with the aim of transformation of people, families, communities, and nations.

— In our words · Source: The Housing Secure Initiative: Helping Families Overcome Housing Insecurity (Geoffrey Heth)

[Use when]

Housing insecurity is also a community deficit — long, committed relational support can attempt what neither the market nor the state delivers on its own.

[Why it matters]

It is a documented non-state, non-market intervention in the housing crisis — community-relationship capital as the mechanism, a small-sample practice-based counter-model to top-down housing policy.