by homeinc | Sep 30, 2020 | Blog
COVID-19 has helped us think more critically about the communities around us and what we are doing to support them. We are seeing gaps in the system and larger inequalities. A report from Prosperity Now is working to quantify and analyze how families are recovering...
by homeinc | Sep 16, 2020 | Blog
Some topics are hard to understand. For us, one of those topics is homelessness. A lot of the time, we use the phrase without thinking of all of the implications, history, and effects it has on our society. As an organization that helps low-income communities, it is...
by homeinc | Aug 26, 2020 | Blog
Two phrases that have often been seen together are minimum wage and rent. But why? These two phrases, though both parts of everyday life are labeled under different categories. One is categorized under-employment, and the other housing. Though, throughout time we have...
by homeinc | Aug 20, 2020 | Blog
Recently, the One Economy: Blueprint for Action Report was published and displayed the inequalities of Black people and the white population in Des Moines, and as they say, A Tale of Two Cities. This action report focused on five sectors of everyday life, financial...
by homeinc | Jul 16, 2020 | Blog
As we are in the midst of a pandemic, many people are struggling to make ends meet, and a lot of the time those mortgage and housing bills become scarier and seem a lot larger. As we all work to pay off those bills and stay positive, HOME Inc. is here to provide...
