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UK’s Embassy Village: Collaborating Across Public, Private, and Nonprofit Sectors to Tackle Rough Sleeping
Beckman, Sara L., Nuno Gil, and Özge Kutun
Publication date: 7/1/2023, pages 1-13

Greater Manchester, England, has the third highest population of rough sleepers (people living on the streets) in the United Kingdom. In 2017, the city’s mayor pledged to end all forms of homelessness, adding that the luxury apartment boom benefitted only a few while pricing others out of housing. Manchester community stakeholders—public, private, and nonprofit—formed a unique partnership to build assisted temporary housing for unsheltered people. A developer donated land under railway arches where the Embassy Village team planned 40 transitional housing units. How and why did all these disparate entities engage and align around a common mission?
 


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