Rockford in Podcasts
placeA city in Illinois known for its history of industrialization and efforts to address homelessness.
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Something You Should Know
How to Solve a Problem Before It Happens & When Less is Really More
One of my favorite stories in the book is about the city of Rockford, which is the second biggest city in Illinois behind Chicago. And it became the first city in the U.S. to solve the problem of veteran homelessness. And what's fascinating about it, I talked to the former mayor, a guy named Larry Morrissey, and he said he'd been working on homelessness for nine years.