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Threads of a Local Response

A systems map of homelessness policy in Waco and McLennan County

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Interactive map of the actors shaping homelessness policy in Waco

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City & county government

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Funders & outside systems

Residents & lived experience

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Seeing the whole system

Homelessness in Waco is not one problem with one owner. It emerges from the way housing markets, hospitals, policing, funders, and neighbors interact — and those interactions land differently from one part of town to the next. Responsible leadership starts with noticing how a decision made in one place echoes everywhere else.

Something to sit with If homelessness is a system rooted in particular places, what does that ask of a leader that a simpler picture would not?