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Back in 2018, Friends In Deed’s Street Outreach and Housing team was a fledgling program with only two employees. Friends In Deed House on Washington Boulevard was already bursting at the seams, so we rented a new office space on Lake Avenue. The tiny team painted the new open-plan office themselves, in FID green, and […]

What do women experiencing homelessness need most? This was a question posed by a group of women from Pasadena churches – the “Women’s Issue Committee” – in 2005. They spent many months researching the question, but didn’t let things rest there: they put their findings into practice by opening The Women’s Room at Friends In