Homecoming Project connects ex-prisoners with spare rooms
Posted on AllSides October 24th, 2019
From The Center
Spare rooms are no longer just for guests and Airbnb.
The lucrative room-letting business has inspired a new way of housing ex-inmates as the United States tests a raft of innovations to ease prisoner release, when a place to call home is a top priority yet often the hardest thing to find.
Ex-prisoners say the freedom and security they get from a room of their own is a huge turnaround after a decade-plus of bunking up in crowded jails, and an opportunity to start afresh.
“I had my own room,...
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